Welcome to Legend Scrolls
What is on this website
This is my personal website featuring information about the ancient Greek Gods and desktop wallpaper in PhotoArt. Also information about the World Wide Web, its technologies and its standards in my Web Standards Articles; including HTML Webpage Structure, Web Accessibility and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
HTML 5, now and future
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a web language that provides semantic, or meaningful, structure to your information in webpages and now web applications.
HTML 5 is being developed not only to update the webpage format to today's standard of the web but also to provide an open, vendor independent application platform.
The core part of HTML 5 is based on what web browsers have supported for the best part of a decade and so The Subset of HTML 5 is already supported by all web browsers.
The Subset simplifies some parts such as declaring the character encoding and the Doctype (which switches browsers into Web Standards mode).
Beyond the Subset, HTML 5 provides more meaningful elements for sections, articles and supports scripted images, native video and audio (does not need plugins or players), more data formats in forms, increased accessibility using ARIA, local data storage and offline web applications.
Web browsers are already supporting more and more new HTML 5 features. More information about how to write using HTML in the HTML Webpage Structure Article.
StyleSheets
Cascade StyleSheets (CSS) is a web language to provide a fine-grained and more realistic way of applying presentation and layout to your webpages and web applications.
From controlling margins, padding, borders, text and box sizes, colours to formatting list markers, adding background images, hover effects. Now, with version 3, emerging and experimental features including multiple background images in one declaration, native rounded border and outline corners, transitions and transformations.
More information on how to write Cascade StyleSheets in the Present and layout using Cascade StyleSheets (CSS) Article.
Structured Images with SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an industry standard providing support for vector graphics (line drawings) with basic shapes including rectangles, lines, circles, ellipses, polygons and polylines. Complex shapes as paths. Text and hyperlinks support.
Also gradients, graphic component reuse and SMIL based animation support. Fonts can be defined in SVG. 2 dimensional transformations including scaling, stretching and rotation. SVG 1.2 Tiny adds support for ARIA, more metadata properties and audio, video multimedia.
SVG 1.0, 1.1, 1.1 Tiny, 1.1 Basic and 1.2 Tiny are all W3C Recommendations and 1.0 and 1.1 are implemented in many programs. Tiny 1.2 has also started to be implemented in some programs. More about SVG images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Article.
Atom Feed format, better than RSS
The Atom Feed format is an open, vendor independent, standard format for syndicating news and updates. Version 1.0 became a standard with the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) AtomPub Working Group in December 2005. Web browsers such as MS Internet Explorer 7 and higher, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera support Atom Feeds.
Atom was designed in an open forum to fix many problems with the RSS Feed format (or should I say formats). There are now over 10 incarnations of RSS, incompatible with some of each other. Atom provides a fresh format that has a clear content model that can be used in titles, summaries and full entries (text, escaped HTML, XHTML and in content many other content formats that RSS cannot). It has a formal XML Namespace and so can be used in any other XML structure; uses a modern standard date and time format. More on the Atom Feed format in the Atom Feeds Article.
OASIS OpenDocument
A vendor independent open file format for Office Applications. Released by the OASIS standards body on 1st May 2005. And is an International Standard approved by the Organisation of International Standards (ISO) as of May 3rd 2006 and published November 30th 2006. More information in the OASIS OpenDocument Format Article and an article on OpenDocument going ISO from eWeek.
