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Generic Text Markup with CSS

·4 mins

Most of you are fa­mil­iar with CSS re­set scripts to re­set CSS be­ha­viour to some­thing uni­form across sev­eral browsers. I have been search­ing for a good CSS stylesheet that would do the same for the format­ting of my text. That is, to give the text on a site a markup, suit­able for read­ing. As a great fan of LaTeX this markup should fol­low the de­fault markup of LaTeX as closely as pos­sible.

A note on the versionless HTML

·4 mins

Yes­ter­day WhatWG an­nounced to drop the ver­sion­ing of HTML. HTML is to be a liv­ing stand­ard. This comes at a very in­con­veni­ent time I fear. Over the past few years web stand­ards have, al­beit slowly, de­veloped into some ma­ture state: Most browsers sup­port the cur­rent (x)HTML, CSS and JS stand­ards to the let­ter and can do more. How­ever, due to the fact that these stand­ards have evolved so slowly new de­vel­op­ments are not in­cluded in these stand­ards. HTML5 (W3C and WhatWG) solves a lot of these prob­lems, in­clud­ing fea­tures like <can­vas> and <video>.