Tripoli, a project about resetting and rebuilding HTML standards, quickly became very popular and buzzed when it was released in early August 2007. Since then it’s been a work in progress with some great help from others. After making some hard-core tests in the real world, it’s almost about time to release the Beta version.

The following new features will be held in the beta version of Tripoli, among others:

• A disabled section, gently disabling deprecated HTML markup
• Improved CSS code in general, meaning better IE support, less quirks and less specific.
• Smaller file size and compact code - now only 5.5k
• All screen CSS is now in one tripoli.css file for easier implementation
• Useful notes in the IE CSS file about png images, transparency and such

Tripoli is different from other frameworks, because it doesn’t tell you how to code your web sites. Just plug it in, add a simple content class where you want your HTML content and you’re all set. The specificity is kept low so you can easily extend it with your own classes and layouts.

You can follow the beta development via the log file. You can also have a look into the development files tripoli.css, tripoli_ie.css and tripoli_print.css. There’s also a sample page and the W3C document selectors with Tripoli injected into it. Do not hesitate to contact me or make a comment in the blog if you have suggestions or comments about Tripoli.

As a side note, there is also a layout plug in progress, for one-line, cross-browser layout templates based on body classes. But that is not a part of the Tripoli core, just an interesting extension. The easiest way to stay informed until the official beta is released is to subscribe to our RSS feed. Stay tuned.

When handing over a project to the client, you sometimes loose control over the content HTML source. Sometimes the client uses a CMS that allows them to have full control over certain parts of the HTML, and sometimes the client simply uses your templates to insert their own HTML content in the document.

It can be hard enough to inform the client about how to use the templates or CMS you provided, and sometimes there is simply not enough room to educate and lecture about semantic HTML and standards. The client will use their plain old markup they once learned, simply because it still works and looks the way they are used to. That will most likely involve some deprecated HTML tags and attributes, such as bgcolor, align and the dreadded <font> tag. This article is about disabling the deprecated tags using CSS, thus gracefully guiding the client in the right direction.

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I’ve been terribly busy lately laying the final hand on some long-term web projects. One of them is Scenarkivet, a historical database archive containing free-form dance and performance art documentation from several scenes in Sweden. The database is full of texts, photos, video, press, prints and is constantly updated.

As of today, only three scenes from Stockholm and Gothenburg are participating in the project, but hopefully there will be more in the near future.

There are more projects comming up soon and I might post some of them in here. Otherwise you can always visit monc to check out some of the latest stuff from my little factory.

Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Clockwise = right side of the brain. Ant-clockwise = left side.

For me it started with a clear clock-wise rotation, but after looking at the shadows it suddenly shifted. And then shifted back again. Scary.

If you happen to be in gothenburg tomorrow night (saturday), stop by Restaurang Stearin and enjoy the atmosphere while me and my friend present some of our best selections of minimal/techhouse/electro recordings.