Archived posts, September 2004
Internet Explorer headed for extinction?
Interesting reading.
CSS Property Reference
HTML Dog now has a CSS 2.1 property reference.
Sliding Doors for IE 5.0 Mac
A technique which can be used to make IE 5.0 Mac behave better.
Checkboxes vs. Radio Buttons
Excellent advice on the use of checkboxes and radio buttons.
Styling form controls
A question that is frequently asked in forums like the css-discuss mailing list is how to style form controls in…
The Elements of Typographic Style
A review of Robert Bringhurst’s classic book on typography.
Copy and Paste
A description of problems caused by character encoding mismatches.
Slide Show Beta
Eric Meyer has created a slide show system based on a single XHTML document.
Cost-Effective Website Acceleration
A three-part article series on website acceleration.
Printing stylesheets
Use server side scripting to load a print stylesheet.
Gbrowser based on Mozilla? Let’s hope.
Rumours say that Google are going to release a browser based on Mozilla.
Spread Firefox
In case you haven’t already, go download Firefox 1.0 PR.
Accessibility vs Branding
The other day I came a cross a pretty strange discussion, at least from my point of view, in a…
CSS positioning and z-index
A thorough guide to the effect of z-index values on relative and absolute CSS positioning.
Resolution dependent layout
A promising looking way of using different layouts for different viewport sizes.
Speed Up Your Site
A review of Andrew King’s book on website optimisation. Learn how to make your site faster.
Web Standards Planet
Connecting web standards related bloggers and sites.
(X)HTML Specs Made Easy
Block level and inline level XHTML elements explained.
Web standards religion? What religion?
In a recent ZDNet column, John Carroll tells makers of alternative (meaning non-Internet Explorer) browsers to drop the religion. What…
html.css
Take a look around the web without default CSS rules.
The Best of Eyetrack III
The key results of recent eyetracking research done on news sites.
Designing Web Usability
My review of this must-have book by Jakob Nielsen.
IE loses market share
Yet another report of Internet Explorer losing market share. Hope is alive.
min-height: fixed;
How to give an element a minimum height without using min-height.
Don’t Make Me Think
My review of an excellent book on usability.
Accessible alternatives
A discussion on when and how to provide text equivalents for images.
Converting your team
Being the only person on a team of web designers and developers who knows or cares about web standards is…
Best practices in online captioning
A guide to publishing accessible video on the web.
Why we are so zealous
Some reasons why high code quality is important.
Web Essentials 04
The list of presenters and subjects really makes me wish Australia wasn’t so far away.
Standards Savings
Eric Meyer comments on Rakesh Pai’s article The Economics of XHTML.
sIFR 2.0b: Come Kick the Tires
A beta version of Scalable Inman Flash Replacement 2.0 is now available.
Accessible Menu Tabs
Accessible menu tabs with rounded corners.
Web design and development book reviews
One of the great things about working in the field of web design and development is that there is so…
The Economics of XHTML
Why using strict, semantic XHTML will save and make your business money.
Less readable to be more accessible?
An interesting discussion about the Text Email Newsletter Standard.
mozilla.org Markup Reference
A document that defines a vocabulary of semantic markup and classes.
Open Source CMS recommendations wanted
Back in April, I posted Content Management System needed, asking for advice on which CMS to recommend for a client….
Grids, tables, CSS
In a few recent posts, starting with the one in which he talks about the technique used for Sliding Faux…
The perversion of Web Standards
Comments on the comments on my post about Web development mistakes.
Bad XHTML
When using XHTML, some details are often overlooked.
Universal Accessibility
Slides from a presentation on web accessibility.
Mastery, Mystery, and Misery
Jakob Nielsen defines three different approaches to web design.
Ten CSS tricks analysed by Tantek
Tantek Çelik makes some corrections and improvements to a recent Evolt article.
Dynamic Elements
Why hiding and showing elements as a result of user interaction can reduce usability and accessibility.
Absolutely relative
Absolute and relative CSS positioning explained.
Pocket-Sized Design
Suggestions for creating a handheld-friendly style sheet.
Ten CSS tricks you may not know
A list of useful CSS tricks that are unkown to many.
Text Email Newsletter (TEN) Standard
A standard designed to increase usability and accessibility of plain text email newsletters.
Vanliga misstag inom webbuteckling
Note: this article is a Swedish translation of Web development mistakes, Redux. När jag besöker en webbplats gillar jag att…
Paper vs. Pixels - Part 2
An explanation of some very important differences between designing for print and for the web.
Web Standards in Education and Government
Speaker notes from Dean Jackson’s (W3C) presentation at Web Essentials 04.
Full height sliding columns
A technique for creating equal height columns in a liquid layout.
Going from iso-8859-1 to utf-8
I’d like to start using utf-8 for character encoding. This whole site is currently in iso-8859-1. Each time I try…
Bullet madness
A growing collection of bullets and arrows.
CSS templates competition
Create a CSS + XHTML template for Style Master and win some cash.
Back To Basics: HTML
Think you know HTML? You probably don’t. Especially if you use ASP.NET.
Designer and user partnership
Both designers and users need to adapt to the flexibility of the web.
YourTotalSite
Helps you develop the web better.
Content negotiation, AdSense, and comments
A few weeks ago I posted about my experiences with content negotiation, and some roadblocks I ran into when looking…
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