One of the web design industry’s favourite tools, the W3C Markup Validator, has been given an overhaul and new user interface. The W3C boast that the new validator has improved accuracy and performance and an array of new features including an automatic clean-up option that utilises HTML Tidy and also the validation of HTML fragments.
The concept of “the fold”, the vertical cut off point at which further content on a web page can only be reached by scrolling, has long been a factor that dictates web design. It’s a common client request that we as web designers endeavor to include as much as possible above the fold. But have we taken a moment to consider whether uses are happy to scroll up and down a page and also how consistent is “the fold” point from one computer to the next?
Apple has today announced the release of a beta version of Safari 3 for Windows. Without wasting anytime I eagerly downloaded the new browser and installed it. Upon launching Safari for the first time, the page that loaded on start-up (from Apple’s own website) was completely devoid of any text. But that was not all, scanning around the screen I realised the entire user interface was also missing text as well! No problem I thought, probably needs a restart, maybe even a re-install, but after carrying out both the results were still the same.
Adobe Labs, which is the epicentre of Adobe’s “collaborative software development process” is host to Apollo. Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime designed to allow web designers and web developers with skills in Flash, XHTML, JavaScript to be able to easily create rich internet applications for the desktop using their existing skills.
Anyone that uses the web a lot no doubt has a multitude of different usernames and passwords for different sites. Even if you try to use the same credentials across the board no doubt there will be exceptions when you want to choose something more secure or when your favoured username is already taken. It’s these multiple log-in credentials that are soon to be a thing of the past with the introduction of OpenID, which seems to be gathering momentum.