Archived posts, November 2004
Embedding Macromedia Flash in XHTML
Possible or not? Yes. No. Maybe. Who knows.
Mozilla, clearers, and dropped floats
I’ve come a cross a very strange bug in late Mozilla builds. It seems to have spread to the latest…
Uncollapsing Margins
Eric Meyer explains CSS margin collapsing and how to avoid it.
Content negotiation
Content negotiation explained, step by step.
Can We Speed Up Browser Evolution?
Some interesting ideas on how adoption of modern web browsers can be sped up.
Stateless: Art of No State
Artist: Stateless Title: Art of No State Genre: Nu-jazz Released: 2003 If you listen to this and think you…
The Underscore Hack
A useful looking CSS hack.
Web standards elitism
In Oh that elitist smell, Molly Holzschlag writes about the perceived elitism of web standards advocates like the W3C, the…
The sound of title separators
How a screen reader pronounces some common title separators.
Image replacement considered evil
Some interesting observations on image replacement.
Firefox 1.0
Finally. Firefox 1.0 is out. Don’t miss it! If for some reason you still haven’t dumped that big blue e…
Accessible and usable websites
A study of users who work with screen readers.
PDF and accessibility
The current state of accessibility of PDF documents.
Various Artists: Verve Remixed
Artist: Various Artists Title: Verve Remixed Genre: Jazz-house-electronica Released: 2002 Remixes of classic jazz tracks are often successful, and…
:target and conditional text display
The :target psudo-class and the ^ substring matching attribute selector put to work.
Stylegala v.02
Stylegala has relaunched with a new layout, a news area, and more.
Author comment highlighting troubles
Having seen, and liked, how some people have implemented author comment highlighting on their sites, I wanted to do the…
Various Artists: Verve Remixed 2
Artist: Various Artists Title: Verve Remixed 2 Genre: Jazz-house-electronica Released: 2003 This follow-up to the first Verve Remixed album…
Ten questions for me
Russ Weakley (Max Design, Web Standards Group) has been doing a series of great interviews with web standards advocates. Recently,…
Bloggforum Stockholm 2004 report
A (very) quick report from tonight’s event.
Accessible forms
The ins and outs of creating accessible forms.
Netscape Revived With Firefox Backing
AOL is bringing Netscape back to life. This time they’re basing it on Firefox.
The Mobile Web
The killer app for web standards?
Who framed the web: Frames and usability
Back in the nineties, using frames to split a browser window into several independent parts was very popular. Much due…
Invasion of the Body Switchers
A List Apart is back, with a new take on style sheet switching.
Thinking with Type
Typography examples and guides.
Growing Up With Web Standards
Don’t stop writing about web standards.
Fangs
A screen reader emulator extension for Firefox.
Quotations and citations: quoting text
When quoting text in HTML, there are several ways of marking up the quoted text. Which way you choose depends…
Scalable rounded edges
Turn a definition list into a scalable box with rounded corners.
Accessible and usable forms
Guidelines and examples that help you create accessible and usable web forms.
One Way to Design a Web Site
A structured and sensible approach to web design.
Accessibility: Panning for gold
Thoughts on accessibility and the use of automated checking tools.
Traffic building tips
Simple tips for getting more traffic to your site.
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