A couple of news items that signal trends in the way the web will evolve:<\/p>\n
Internet Explorer has lost a significant amount of market share recently<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> This is good news in a couple of ways.\u00a0 First, it signals growing diversity among web browsers, and the people who use them.\u00a0\u00a0 This strengthens the concept of web standards, and encourages design that is browser agnostic.\u00a0 The other way in which this is good news is that IE6 use has dropped below 10% and IE7 is heading that way as well.\u00a0 Internet Explorer 8<\/a> is superior to either one, and it is great to see people upgrading. \u00a0 There are also many fantastic browsers not made by Microsoft, including Mozilla’s Firefox<\/a>, Apple’s Safari<\/a>, Google’s Chrome<\/a>, and Opera<\/a>.\u00a0 Whichever you choose (and why limit yourself to just one?), make sure you are using the most current version.\u00a0 Otherwise the only thing you aren’t missing out on is the security problems.<\/p>\n XHTML 2 will disappear at the end of this year<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 That I think this is good might surprise those who know that I have been designing using versions of the XHTML standard since around 2005.\u00a0 I like the separation of content from design, and some of the features of XHTML 2<\/a> look fantastic.\u00a0 However, I think HTML 5<\/a> is going to take the internet by storm, and it is better to incorporate as many of the good features of XHTML 2 in HTML 5, eliminate the problematic issues, and let one standard guide the design of general web pages.\u00a0 This requires that HTML 5 be as good as it looks.\u00a0 I have high hopes for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of news items that signal trends in the way the web will evolve: Internet Explorer has lost a significant amount of market share recently. This is good news in a couple of ways.\u00a0 First, it signals growing diversity … Continue reading