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Sick of relying on Issu, or other bloated third parties, simply for embedding documents? Well, it turns out you can embed .pdf and .ppt files via Google Docs using a simple iframe. You don’t even need a Google account. <iframe src=”http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://document.pdf&embedded=true”></iframe> Simply replace the bold text with your document’s url and style the iframe with [...]

An up-to-date set of comparison tables for browser support of CSS3 selectors and HTML5 properties. It doesn’t include IE9, because they have a whole separate page of tables previewing IE9 support for HTML5 and CSS3. Visit Web Designer’s Checklist

This page has been around for a good while. I’m flagging it up now because I’m trying to build up a sort of toolkit and primer for colleagues managing websites; the rather unsophisticated ‘every user should have exactly the same experience on our website’ is – sadly and surprisingly – still a common attitude. This [...]

This is a very nice demonstration of what HTML5/CSS3 is capable of, and shows how ready the various browsers are for it. Visit HTML5 Readiness

This is really interesting, because I always assumed that online registration forms were easier to use if their components were separated clearly. This post suggests that in fact a narrative paragraph containing the form fields in-line is more likely to encourage use. Thanks to Martin Black for drawing my attention to this on Twitter. Visit [...]

A set of very handy lists of online web development tools, neatly and clearly laid out. Covers inspiration and design as well as markup, coding and marketing. Visit Web Design Dashboard

html5 gallery is a great showcase of HTML5, put together by Richard Clark. He aims both to show how the specification is already being interpreted and implemented, and to help people learn and understand it.

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I’ve been playing with CSS3, just for fun really. All of the styles I’ve used work in Safari; most of them work in Firefox and Opera; none of them work in Internet Explorer 7. For my test page I wanted: paragraphs with transparent coloured backgrounds layered over images; each image to be different; the boxes [...]

These are my links for 4 January 2009 through 5 January 2009: Adactio: Journal—The Rise of HTML5 – Simply Google: all of Google's services in one place – This is a nice idea, if it really does what it says. Google is so big now and lots of blogs, services and tools that can be [...]

These are my links for 3 January 2009 from 21:08 to 23:52: The history of PC hardware, in pictures – An interesting pictoral history of firsts: trackball, mouse, laptop,PC, Apple, RAM, disk drive, etc. Test new html5 elements – Bruce Lawson's test page of new html elements that can be used right now. Digbeth is [...]