Simon Willison’s Weblog

WebKit, Mobile, and Progress. Alex Russell responds to PPK’s analysis of the many different WebKit variants in today’s mobile phones, pointing out that the replacement cycle and increasing quality of WebKit in more recent phones means the situation still looks pretty good.

# 10th October 2009, 12:28 am / alex-russell, ppk, webkit, mobile, browsers

There is no WebKit on Mobile. PPK ran 27 tests against 19 different WebKit-on-mobile implementations and found enormous disparities between the levels of support in currently available mobile phones.

# 7th October 2009, 12:23 pm / webkit, mobile, ppk, testing, standards

Making the HTML5 time element safe for historians. PPK presents a detailed history of dates and calendars and points out that the HTML5 time element is ill prepared to faithfully represent the kind of dates historians are interested in.

# 6th April 2009, 2:01 pm / ppk, html5, time, datetime, dates, calendars, history, historians, standards

The versioning switch is not a browser detect. PPK: “In other words, the versioning switch does not have any of the negative effects of a browser detect.”

# 22nd January 2008, 4:34 pm / ppk, web-standards, browserdetect, browsers, doctypeswitching, ie8, internet-explorer, xuacompatible

New Dutch accessibility law. Sounds extremely forward thinking, designed by people who really understand the field. Just one problem: the guidelines are only available in Dutch!

# 16th January 2007, 12:59 pm / dutch, ppk, accessibility, guidelines, law