Archive for August, 2007
The proposal 9
Maggie received the video today from her workmate. Here it is:
Turn the volume down ;)
Get on Facebook 1
Radford: I'm looking at you. Gemma, you too.
Edit: What the heck was I thinking? Of course Gemma is on there!
HTML 5 to introduce much-needed new tags 2
There's an article on IBM's DeveloperWorks discussing the proposed HTML 5 specifications and the new introductions.
There's a bunch of interesting new tags including those that outline time-stamps, measured "amounts" of things (like test scores, employee performance or money), article text and navigation. New tags for embedded audio and video are needed, especially considering the proliferation of media online. Also, a progress tag will give immediate feed-back as to the status of a file transfer or download. This information can be consistently updated using Javascript calls and AJAX designs.
Defining these extra semantics allows for increased accessibility and further intra-computer communication. Put simply: your web site's content will be increasingly available to people with disabilities or other computer systems that wish to consume the data.

