Legend Scrolls

Welcome to Legend Scrolls. This is my personal website featuring
information about the World Wide Web its technologies and its standards in my Articles;
including From HTML to HTML5.
Plus information about factual and fictional Ancient Greek times and check the latest with Browser and Email Watch.

Photoart of films, characters, actress' and actors are available in JPEG and PNG format at 800 by 600 and 1024 by 768 from Photoart.

Greek Gods provides information about the gods and goddess' of Ancient Greece.
Read all about the Amazon Bard Gabrielle in Gabby and about Reneé O'Connor in Reneé.
Also Photo Galleries are available through the Gabby and Reneé pages.

Latest News

2008-05-06 release of Structure Your Webpages With HTML 5 article.
Spec Tracking Updates includee updating abbr and dfn plus style and classid attributes added.

Updated: From HTML To HTML 5 quick article.
About upgrading from HTML or HTML-Compatible XHTML 1.0 to HTML 5.
Spec Tracking Update: classid on object allowed.

Updated: From XHTML To XHTML 5 quick article.
About upgrading from native XHTML to XHTML 5.
Spec Tracking Update: classid on object allowed.

Unobtrusive Scripting quick article.
About writing unobtrusive scripting.

HTML 5 (Working Draft) QuillPad Plugin Tool released 2008-04-20.
Update reterms Void with Void 1 (such as <br>), Void 2 (<br/>) and Void 3 (<br />). Plus updates rel values for link and a elements, adds headers for td and adds audio, video and source elements.

2008-03-21 release of Web Browsers and Packages article.
Updates include Webkit 525 / Safari 3.1 and Acid3 Tests.

Browser & Email Watch

iCab 4.1.1 has been released.
Version 4.1.1 of iCab uses Apple Webkit and is available from the iCab Site.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 has been released.
Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 includes security and stability bug fixes.
If you have Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 or higher you can go to Help - Check For Updates to update your copy. Otherwise the 2.0.0.14 version is available from the Mozilla Thunderbird Site.

OmniWeb 5.7 has been released.
Version 5.7 of OmniWeb is available from the Omni Group Site.

Camino 1.6 has been released.
Version 1.6 of Camino is available from the Camino Site.

Apple Safari 3.1.1 has been released.
Apple Safari 3.1.1 includes security fixes. Safari is an extremely fast, secure, Web Standards web browser available for Mac OS X.4.11+ Tiger, Mac OS X.5.2+ Leopard, Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. You can download it from the Apple Safari Site or Apple Software Update.

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 is released.
Firefox 2.0.0.14 includes a security fix.
If you have Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or higher you can go to Help - Check For Updates to update your copy. Otherwise the 2.0.0.14 version is available from the Moziila Firefox Site.

Opera 9.27 has been released
Opera 9.27 includes critical bug fixes.
Opera 9 supports XML 1.1, XSLT & XPath, Canvas, saved sessions, Widgets, per-site preferences and is one of the first web browsers to support all of DOM 2.
You can download Opera 9.27 from the Opera website.

SeaMonkey 1.1.9 is released.
SeaMonkey 1.1.9 includes security and stability bug fixes.
Version 1.1.9 of SeaMonkey is available from the SeaMonkey Site.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 has been released.
Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 includes security and stability bug fixes.
If you have Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 or higher you can go to Help - Check For Updates to update your copy. Otherwise the 2.0.0.12 version is available from the Mozilla Thunderbird Site.

Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7 has been released.
Tabbed browsing, increased security and improved visual interface.
You can download Internet Explorer 7 from it's website.



Current support for Adobe Flash

Over 97% of China, India, South Korea, Russia, Taiwan and over 99% of US/Canada, UK, Europe, Japan support Flash 7 including Flash Video (using Sorenson Spark Video codec).
Over 94% of China, India, South Korea, Russia, Taiwan and over 98% of US/Canada, UK, Europe, Japan support Flash 8 including Flash Video (using Sorenson Spark or En2 Video codec).
Just under 90% of China, India, South Korea, Russia, Taiwan and over 93% of US/Canada, UK, Europe, Japan support Flash 9 including Flex 2 Flash-based applications.
More about Adobe Flash support from the Adobe Flash Census.

OASIS OpenDocument

A vendor independant 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.
More information on OpenDocument in the Web Standards Articles
A Full article about OpenDocument going ISO from eWeek.



Articles

From HTML To HTML5

Quick Tutorial about upgrading HTML or HTML-Compatible XHTML 1.0 to HTML 5.
This quick tutorial is also available in OASIS OpenDocument Text, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office Word formats.

Unobtrusive Scripting

Quick Tutorial about writing unobtrusive scripting.
This quick tutorial is also available in OASIS OpenDocument Text, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office Word formats.

From XHTML To XHTML5

Quick Tutorial about upgrading native XHTML to XHTML 5.
This quick tutorial is also available in OASIS OpenDocument Text, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office Word formats.

Web Standards Articles: As of 2008-05-06

The Web Standards Articles is a collection of articles on the concept of accessibility and structuring your webpages in standards HTML / XHTML and CSS with information about other web technologies and web browsers.
Also available in OASIS OpenDocument Text, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office Word formats.

From HTML To XHTML

This tutorial is for those who know HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and are interested in upgrading to XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language).
This quick tutorial is also available in OASIS OpenDocument Text, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office Word formats.



QuillPad 6.1.3.1

Released 5th August 2007.
Updates include Crystal Project Icons (Everaldo, LGPL) and for the Mac Edition also enabled Apple's 'Brushed Metal' Theme.
If you are a Web Designer, Web Developer, Application Developer or just want a cross-platform text editor check out Legend Scrolls's text and code editor QuillPad.
It's built in Java 1.4 (Java 2 Standard Edition version 1.4.0).
Further details on the QuillPad page.