Miso – font, not soup
Cool, architectural-drawing-style font from Omkrets (website). Might use this on a secret project I’ve got cooking :-)
Cool, architectural-drawing-style font from Omkrets (website). Might use this on a secret project I’ve got cooking :-)
I’ve just bought and read HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference. It’s a useful book that’s taught me a few new HTML tags (and I thought I knew them all!).
Whatever you think of semantic HTML, these are essential for any die-hard web geek ;-)
<samp>...</samp>Sample output from programs and scripts. I’d use this rather than <code> (or within <code> tags) to indicate that the content was an example output of, say, a ruby script.
$ ruby random_password.rb # => <samp>mSeq15H3j8</samp>
<dfn>...</dfn>Use to indicate the defining instance of the enclosed term (probably the first time you use a special name or acronym):
…The British Broadcasting Corporation (
<dfn>BBC</dfn>)…
<button>...</button>Replaces your boring old form submit button with something classier, using an image:
<button name="submit" id="submit">
<img src="images/submit_button.png" />
</button>
<base />Use in a document’s <head> to define the base path for all relative URLs in the document. This could be useful if you’re writing a blog, want all your links to start with articles, and are lazy:
<html>
<head>
<base href=”/articles/” />
</head>
<body>
<!– links to /articles/how-to-make-millions –>
<a href=”how-to-make-millions”>read this</a>
</body>
</html>
Lastly, did you know that the <address> tag isn’t meant to be used for any just address? I didn’t. It’s actually intended for marking up the address of the author of an HTML document. I wonder how many people follow that convention :-)