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How do I get out of a frameset in HTML ?

imran — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:11:38 +0000

If you are the author, this is easy. You only have to add the TARGET attribute to the link that takes readers to the intended ‘outside’ document. Give it the value of _top.
In many current browsers, it is not possible to display a frame in the full browser window, at least not very easily. The reader would need to copy the URL of the desired frame and then request that URL manually.

I would recommend that authors who want to offer readers this option add a link to the document itself in the document, with the TARGET attribute set to _top so the document displays in the full window if the link is followed.

What the hell is HTML5?

imran — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:30:05 +0000

HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) started work on the specification in June 2004 under the name Web Applications 1.0. As of February 2010, the specification is in the “Last Call” state at the WHATWG.

HTML5 is the proposed next standard for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and DOM Level 2 HTML. It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Apache Pivot, and Sun JavaFX.

The ideas behind HTML5 were pioneered in 2004 by the WHATWG; HTML5 incorporates Web Forms 2.0, another WHATWG specification. The HTML5 specification was adopted as the starting point of the work of the new HTML working group of the W3C in 2007. This working group published the First Public Working Draft of the specification on January 22, 2008. The specification is an ongoing work, and is expected to remain so for many years, although parts of HTML5 are going to be finished and implemented in browsers before the whole specification reaches final Recommendation status.

What is HTML Layout Engine ?

imran — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:25:39 +0000

A layout engine, or rendering engine, is software that takes marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.) and displays the formatted content on the screen. It “paints” on the content area of a window, which is displayed on a monitor or a printer. A layout engine is typically used for web browsers, e-mail clients, or other applications that require the displaying (and editing) of web contents.

The term “layout engine” only reached popular usage when these became easily separable from the browser.[citation needed] For example, Gecko, the Mozilla project’s open-source layout engine, is used by a variety of products derived from the Mozilla code base, including the Firefox web browser, the Thunderbird E-mail client, and Seamonkey application suite. Trident, the layout engine from Internet Explorer, is used by many applications on the Microsoft Windows platform to render HTML, as in Outlook Express, some versions of Microsoft Outlook, and the mini-browsers in Winamp and RealPlayer.

Similarly, Opera Software’s proprietary Presto engine is licensed to a number of other software vendors, as well as being used in Opera’s own Opera web browser, and KDE’s open-source KHTML engine is used both in KDE’s own Konqueror web browser as well as being used, in an adapted form, as the basis for WebKit, the rendering engine in Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome web browsers.

The term rendering engine can also refer to text rendering engines like Pango, International Components for Unicode (ICU) or Uniscribe which make multilingual texts present in proper shape, taking into account bidirectional text, combinations of “basic characters” with accents, and other intricacies of multilingual text.

HTML 5 Features List

imran — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:34:12 +0000

HTML5

Use of all the most useful current html5 tags including: header, nav, section, article, footer, and more to come soon (with styling)
Use of the all new and
New input field types: url, email, etc
Script embed (javascript) using only the script tag without the attribute type
Modified Reset Stylesheet for HTML5

CSS3

Use of the new ::selection selector that enables you to customize the properties of selected text.
Rounded Corners for any block level element
Text-Shadow for text elements
Box Shadow for block level elements

Grid

16 column, 52 pixel based with 8 pixel gutter

Source: 52framework

Youtube will support HTML5 ?

imran — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:18:57 +0000

A few days ago Google has opened a section on Youtube on his website that explore new ideas for its products.
From the outset the most requested feature by all the voters was the HTML5 video support. Even all the ideas with the most votes related to the HTML5 video support. A plebiscite that led Google to mark as “answer” all “ideas” and drop a note stating that they are working to meet this demand.

The only way to allow other ideas to have a chance to be seen by users. We can therefore say that a youtube where flash is only one alternative is a reality. I wonder if other sites that offer video decide to follow the same path and how this will affect the market shares of various browsers.

What is HTML5 ?

imran — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:19:45 +0000

HTML5 is a new version of HTML and XHTML. The HTML5 draft specification defines a single language that can be written in HTML and XML. It attempts to solve issues found in previous iterations of HTML and addresses the needs of Web Applications, an area previously not adequately covered by HTML.