Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

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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These are my links for 26 January 2009 from 12:46 to 12:46

These are my links for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009: Us Now: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet – "Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. Us Now tells the stories of online networks that are [...]

These are my links for 6 January 2009 through 8 January 2009: Vote for Created in Birmingham – Vote now to see Created in Birmingham beat the Daily Mail's Melanie Phillips to Best UK Blog award. Vote for Created in Birmingham to beat Daily Mail blogger! – You should also vote because Created in Birmingham [...]

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 [...]

It’s been a while, sorry. Last time I posted (aeons ago) I promised to do some testing for css3.info; oops. I am doing it, but as often happens it’s had to slide down my list of priorities. Having been a little wary of CSS Eleven back then, I have since been to a seminar day [...]

CSS Eleven – an international group of eleven web developers and designers – intends to explain and illustrate the various CSS modules as they are developed.

I’ve suffered plenty of headaches trying to create standards-compliant emails, and have given up in favour of bloated, cumbersome, outdated html (ie the stuff of nightmares where the design of each paragraph is dependent on its own font tags).

A lot has been written on styling html lists to make them look pretty, a good example being Douglas Bowman’s ‘Sliding Doors‘ articles on alistapart.com. However, I’ve still not managed to master it. Either I have problems with floated elements or IE doesn’t style the tabs properly (IE6, at any rate). I finally got it [...]