With the definition of HTML5 picking up speed, there are a number of HTML 4.01 elements which we should now consider avoiding when we build our web pages, simply because they’re being dropped from the HTML5 spec.

Many of these elements were already deprecated in HTML4, however there are a few elements missing in HTML5 that were not already deprecated, such as acronym and frame.

The elements experiencing earnest disapproval in HTML5 are:

• basefont
• big
• center
• font
• s
• strike
• tt
• u
• frame
• frameset
• noframes
• acronym
• applet
• isindex
• dir

Incidentally, for those who remember menu, you’ll be pleased to learn that it’s back in favour and is all set to make a return in HML5 – hoorahh!

More info on HTML5 can be unearthed in the HTML5 spec.

Enjoy!

Here’s a tutorial that shows quite easily how to fake HDR photos with Photoshop. You don’t need to shoot the same photo at many different exposures, one JPEG is enough. And if you can work with masks in Photoshop, you already have an advantage.

Anyone out there still doubting the traction of mobile web content? Mobile web is now 19% of PC web (UK), 17% (US).

5.7 million people in the UK use the mobile web, as opposed to 30 million who access the web by PC. This means that the mobile web is already nearly one fifth the size of the PC web.

If these figures are accurate (nearly 20% of all internet access?) then the design and build community has got a lot of catching up to do.

Following a conversation with Judy Brewer from the W3C back in February, Jared Smith had the chance to interview her and submit some probing questions to the WCAG Working Group about what’s happening with WCAG 2.0. Thanks Judy…and nice one Jared! See the interview with Judy Brewer and the WCAG Working Group over at WaSP Asks the W3C.

Dave Shea has an excellent tutorial over on Mezzoblue that shows how to spice up your screenshots by giving them some perspective and a touch of focal blur.