Archived posts, October 2003
Joe Clark interview
Craig Saila has interviewed accessibility guru Joe Clark for Digital Web Magazine. When asked if he has seen an improvement…
More Sliding Doors
Last week, when A List Apart was relaunched, my favourite article was Doug Bowman’s Sliding Doors of CSS. This week’s…
HTML or XHTML?
For a nice explanation of the differences between HTML and XHTML, as well as recommendations on when to use what…
Coding with Web Standards
Here’s a list of good reads for anyone interested in learning why coding with web standards will make your life…
Adobe Studio Redesigns
Adobe just launched a new version of their Adobe Studio site. Bill Merikallio of Scott Design helped Adobe convert the…
More wasps in the nest
The Web Standards Project has two new members: Dave Shea and Ethan Marcotte. Congratulations to both of you and to…
CSS Borders
Next time you’re styling a border with CSS, try something new. Instead of going from your editor of choice to…
Safari 1.1
Friday night Apple released Mac OS X 10.3, a.k.a. Panther. A great new version with loads of improvements. I don’t…
Interviews
A couple of recent interviews worth reading are Jeffrey Zeldman at Lounge 72 and Christopher Schmitt at Sessions.edu. Both interviews…
Trackback ID?
How the hell do trackback ID:s work in Movable Type? I just can’t figure out how to find out what…
SimpleQuiz Part IX
The latest in the SimpleQuiz series is Part IX › Smart Linking. The subject is different ways of marking up…
A List Apart relaunch
A List Apart version 3.0 has been launched. Very nice to see ALA back in action. Issue 160 contains three…
Colour in design
Something that’s easily overlooked when designing a web site is how the use of colours affects the usability for colour-blind…
Blacklisting
Posting comments at this site has only been possible for a day, so I have no problems with comment spam…
Getting there
I’ve spent most of the weekend tweaking things around here. Nothing seems completely broken, but there are one or two…
Accessibility resources
Looking for accessibility links or resources? Go to AccessibleNet.org and browse a large and growing collection….
Moved to Movable Type
A couple of weeks back I experimented with Movable Type, running it locally on my OS X machine and then…
Mozilla update
There’s been a lot of activity at mozilla.org today. Mozilla 1.5, Mozilla Firebird 0.7 and Thunderbird 0.3 were released, and…
Image tabs
At SimpleBits, Dan Cederholm has written a detailed explanation of how he implemented the navigation system for Fast Company by…
URL rewriting
While reading about search engine optimization I’ve seen references to the Apache module mod_rewrite more than a few times. The…
Supplemental Navigation
D. Keith Robinson’s Gorilla Web Tip Number Eleven is about Supplemental Navigation Techniques and Tips. Topics include sitemaps, shortcut menus…
Float it
Floatutorial is an excellent guide to floating elements. Understanding how floats work and how they can be used can be…
Doggie style HTML
Patrick Griffiths recently launched HTML Dog, a collection of resources and guides, with the ambition to help people learn standards…
Mid Pass Filter
Mid Pass Filter is a new CSS hack by Tantek Çelik. This hack is a filter that targets only version…
No need for improvement
The Accessibility Internet Rally Advance Developer Training 2003 is available online. The course is full of useful information on how…
Accessibility Internet Rally
The Accessibility Internet Rally Advance Developer Training 2003 is available online. The course is full of useful information on how…
AOWhat?
In Designing For AOL - Your Take, D. Keith Robinson asks if we, the designers and developers, feel that the…
Very Weird Web
Have you ever used <object>, <embed> or <applet> to put ”active” content on a web page? Probably. That’s going to…
Movable Type resources
Yesterday I wrote that I have given up the idea of using Movable Type for this site. Well, that was…
Giving up
I had this idea that I could use Movabletype locally on my Mac OS X machine and ftp the files…
Soft dropshadow
I added another demo page to my Lab section. Soft dropshadow uses background images to create a dropshadow effect. The…
Layout-o-Matic
If you’re in a hurry and need a one, two or three column CSS-layout, check out Layout-o-Matic at InkNoise. A…
<abbr> or <acronym>?
Lars Holst has written a very thorough essay on the why, how and when of <abbr> and <acronym>. Abbreviations, Acronyms,…
Practices and Patterns
When you’re trying to come up with a good way of solving a design problem looking at how others have…
CSS Frames updated
Today I checked my CSS Frames demo in IE5/Win for the first time. I discovered that things were a bit…
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Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.
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