salt and lemon, with a pinch of css

I’ve been busy updating my blog. I thought I’d go for the full screen width this time and make use of the space. I will be adding more widgets over the coming days and weeks.

Why salt and lemon? Well, several things really… salt and lemon as in ‘margarita’, and Margarita happens to be my second name (although I never use it… till now!). In Mexico, we like adding salt and lemon to our fruit, like jícama, mangoes, cucumber, pineapple, and papaya.

Actually, we add salt and lemon (and a sprinkling of chilli) to pretty much everything! Yum!

The first working draft of HTML5 has been published, together with the differences between HTML5 and HTML4.

Lachlan Hunt also gives us a preview on his article ‘A Preview of HTML5‘

Tired of email spam, Roel Van Gils, in his ListApart article shows how to stop it for now Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation

Guidelines for UK Government Websites: government websites must meet Level Double-A of the W3C guidelines by December 2008

A working example of Alt text and link images, explained by Jared Smith

Looking to automate testing? Watir “Web Application Testing in Ruby” might be what you are looking for.

As front-end web developers, we are always trying to build web pages that are going to be rendered fast enough by browsers. But there is much more to it than simply clean code and small images.

Yahoo’s Steve Souders presents some rules on how to improve the performance of websites in this video. You can also read 13 rules for speeding up your website.

Ten years ago I started exploring CSS. A year later, I was lucky to put it all into practice on the most commercial site I’ve ever worked on, Microsoft Expedia UK. CSS continues to be strong and as many designers will agree, is the best way to make websites come to life.

There is still a way to go as Håkon Wium Lie (the co-authors of that original document recommendation) explains in his A List Apart article CSS @ Ten: The Next Big Thing.

It’s great to know that the web fonts are back! We need web fonts to enhance user experience and bring on the next generation of websites.

The W3C produced a brief history (on the actual birthday - 17th December 2006) on what has been achieved over the last decade.