HTML
Optimize your <head> metadata for better compression
Reduce the file size of compressed webpages by optimizing the order of <meta> and <link> elements in the document <head> section.
HTML
HTML
Mitigate “tabnabbing” without breaking window.open() features
Windows opened from your website can redirect the opening tab to a new destination. Mitigations break window.open() functionality like sizing and positioning.
HTML
Semantic markup improves the quality of machine-translated texts
Text-level semantic HTML can improve machine-translation of texts containing program names, programming instructions, file paths, URIs, etc.
HTML
URLs don’t belong in <meta> elements
Why the <link> element, a metadata element for link type data, is better suited for links than the more generic <meta> element.
HTML
HTML5 parsed as 4 with uppercase DOCTYPE in HTML Tidy
HTML5 documents could end up being parsed as legacy HTML4 documents in HTML Tidy (libtidy) depending on the DOCTYPE casing.
HTML
PHP HTML Tidy ironically doesn’t tidy up after itself
The ob_tidyhandler handler from the PHP libtidy extension mistakenly enables the tidy.clean_output option persistently.
Web Browsers
Web Reading Mode: Title, author, and date metadata extraction
How do browser reading modes detect metadata like the article title, publication date, and author? There’s no standard so web browsers all do their own thing.
Web Browsers
Web Reading Mode: Determining the main page content
How do browser reading modes determine what is the main page content? They use different approaches and there’s no defined standard.
HTML
About the <å> element
What’s up with the mysterious <å> HTML element as seen here on Ctrl blog and other Scandinavian websites? It’s just a typo: the Å key is next to P.
Open Standards
Why are Facebook and Twitter so bad at parsing RDFa metadata?
Social networks are some of the web’s largest consumers of RDFa metadata. Yet, their document parsers really suck at handling it.
Microsoft Windows
BriskBard engine: A new web layout engine for Windows
BriskBard is a new proprietary web layout engine with a near-perfect Acid2-test score. Can it reignite the web browser engine wars?
Open Standards
Provide icons for web apps in GNOME Web (Epiphany)
Get the details on how GNMOE Web (formerly Epiphany) uses favicons and other website assets when installing websites as web apps on the Linux desktop.