Archived posts, May 2003
iCan’t shop Tunes
Apple released iTunes 4 the other day. The big news about it is the online music store that’s accessible from…
Keep your windows closed
Like many others, I prefer to stay in control of my web browsing. That’s why links that open in new…
Form Layout
After following a discussion about form layout on CSS-discuss and then reading this article at Accessify.com I’m thinking of making…
Accesskey
Accesskey standards is a nice summary of what shortcut keys are commonly used. I haven’t added any accesskey shortcuts to…
Keep your windows closed (take 2)
I stated below that I am no fan of sites that take control away from the user. But in those…
Forms follow function
I’ve started working on summarizing the different approaches to styling forms with CSS that I’ve read about. That, and my…
Browserlanche
Being a Mac user these days is very nice when it comes to picking a web browser… I’ve nearly lost…
The validator is your friend
Oh boy. I wish I could have come up with what Mark Pilgrim writes myself. I agree with him so…
Me Standard. You Tag Soup?
Simon Willison links to a good article at W3C: My Web site is standard! And yours?. It lists many of…
Zen Garden
The CSS Zen Garden is a showcase intended to let graphic artists apply their own designs to the same, properly…
Mozilla efficiency
Asa Dotlzer and Frank Merenda recently posted some great tips on how to use the power of Mozilla to improve…
Interviews worth reading
I found a couple of interesting interviews: Information Architecture Meets Usability at O’Reilly Network and An interview with Andrew B….
CSS3
The W3C recently published four CSS3 Candidate Recommendations: CSS3 Text Module, CSS3 Color Module, CSS3 Ruby Module and CSS TV…
Slow Forms
Almost two weeks ago I mentioned that I’m working on a ”best practices” thing for HTML forms. Well, it’s not…
Hierarchy
Having just implemented a JavaScript-hierarchical dynamic menu I really wish Internet Explorer would catch up to the level of CSS…
Mozilla Firebird
Mozilla Firebird 0.6, formerly called Phoenix, has been posted. Get it at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.6/….
FORMula One
I spent a few hours working on my master form layout. There’s more to be done to make it perfect…
The cost of usability
Those of us working in the web industry who believe that usability testing is something that should be done in…
Accessibility statement
Mark Pilgrim’s site [dive into mark] has an extensive Accessibility statement. Adding one to this site would be a good…
Standard Business
When I talk to people about building web sites, and we get to the details like standards and CSS, sometimes…
Site Update: Please reload
I’ve been polishing things around here, making some changes to CSS files, adding accesskey support, defined a bunch of acronyms…
Updated look
This site now has an Accessibility statement. There is also a much more different alternative stylesheet.Not anymore. More will come….
I Blame Microsoft
This is what Tim Bray writes about IE: The problem isn’t that CSS is too hard. The problem isn’t browser…
F*** the users
Reading D. Keith Robinson´s Death Of A Web Team made me once again feel the anger and frustration I’ve had…
Mozilla 1.4 Release Candidate 1 Now Available
Time to download a new build, either from the mozilla.org Releases page or straight from the mozilla1.4rc1 directory on ftp.mozilla.org….
DOM Forms
I’ve been doing some research, thinking and testing on the subject of web forms recently. One of the things I…
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