HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used to create web pages. HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets.
As the web progresses and grows, so do the technologies that come along with it. Trying to keep on top of everything you need to know can be overwhelming due to the rapid pace at which things change. You could struggle to get a piece of functionality working for you just the way you want…
Here at IDRsolutions we are very excited about Java 9 and have written a series of articles explaining some of the main features. In our previous Java 9 series article we looked at the new HTTP/2 client in Java 9. This time we will be looking at HTML5 Javadocs. In Java 8 and earlier, Javadocs are…
It’s safe to say that if someone designed fonts from scratch today they’d be very different on the inside. As with many technologies, the formats have evolved to allow for backwards compatibility and new requirements in ways which make them a bit, well, weird. What’s weird with fonts on the web? Modern web fonts contain…
One of my favorite parts of our trip to JavaOne is the chance to arrive early and visit lots of people. JavaOne starts on Sunday 25th October, so I will arrive in San Francisco for the week before, flying in on 20th October from the UK. San Francisco sits at the the centre of Silicon Valley,…
WOFF 2.0 is working its way towards being a standard recommended by the W3C, so it seems like a good time to look at the WOFF format and where it’s headed. The Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a font wrapper format designed to cut font sizes for quicker loading over the internet and lower…
