True inspiration can be measured by its longevity. It's been a week since Banks and Andrea and I visited Atlanta for An Event Apart (@aneventapart), but I'm still giddy about being a web developer. And this is a breakthrough, because there's been a problem...
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Studiobanks has expanded its team with two new developers. Matt Davis and Zack Hovatter will focus on front-end engineering and server-side programming to develop digital marketing solutions that are both usable and functional.
"With digital marketing continuing to gain prominence in the marketplace, the demand for our services has increased dramatically,” said Banks Wilson, Studiobanks’ president and creative director. "As a result, it’s been critical for us to add specialized talent who can create compelling brand experiences for our clients. Matt and Zack are a welcome addition to our team, bringing an impressive skill set and depth of knowledge in web technology, development and digital trends."
Visit our team page to learn more about the Studiocrew.
Notice something different about us? Yessire, we decided it was about time to give the old URL an update, and update it we did! The new site you’re currently browsing features a brand new design strategy and modern development languages like HTML5 and CSS3. If you’ll scale your browser size for just a moment, you’ll notice that the grid-based layout scales automatically so it can fit monitors of all sizes and even smartphones and tablets. Petty neat, huh?
Back in March, Microsoft finally caved under the pressure of web designers and developers and announced Internet Explorer 8 will render content in the most current standards-based mode by default (currently, it must be forced out of "quirks" mode by specifying DOCTYPE). In addition, there will be two other rendering modes that are enabled through meta tag declarations—one comparable to IE 7 and another dating back further. Being the behemoth, corporate entity that they are this is understandable, as they can't ignore businesses locked into previous versions of Internet Explorer. Despite my distaste for most of Microsoft's actions, this is a great decision.
With the release of IE 8 Beta 1, the development team at Microsoft is beginning to release details regarding improvements. The most exciting news I've heard on the IEBlog is the HTML and DOM Standards Compliance in the new beta. It appears as if the team is working with the new HTML 5 specification. As we mentioned around this time last year, there a lot of improvements on the way in the new version of HTML. With IE 8 already in its first beta, the WebKit project churning along and the speed at which Mozilla can kick out new versions of Firefox, it's realistic to think we may be able to utilize many of the proposed HTML features in in the next few years. While that still sounds like a long time, the HTML 4.01 specification was recommended as of December 1999 (XHTML in the following year). The HTML 5 specification was just adopted at the end of 2007 and the first working draft published in January. So, the pace is quickening, even though HTML 5 reportedly won't be "recommended" by the W3C until around 2012.
If you've noticed references to HTML 5 or XHTML 2 pop up around the web and aren't aware of the differences between the two, then be sure to read "HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web" over at Digital Web Magazine.
The article lays out the pros and cons and the general arguments for each language. As you'll read, there's quite a lot in the pipe as far as updates to the functionality of forms, basic client-side APIs and the structure of markup.
Some additional reading:
The future of HTML, Part 1: WHATWG