Archived posts, April 2005
Unkle: Never Never Land
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Keeping pretties out of content
How to decide which graphics are presentational and which are content.
Generic Form Validation Routine
Useful, unobtrusive, progressive enhancement ECMAScript.
Ten questions for Tommy Olsson
Tommy talks about MIME types, HTML, floats, accessibility, and more.
Fixed or fluid width? Elastic!
A quick explanation of the concept of elastic width layouts.
Skip Links
A look at the the different approaches to implementing skip links.
Web browser standards support
Comprehensive charts of standards support. No Safari though.
Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005
Tips for writing efficient, accessible, usable, and future-proof JavaScript.
Browser Elitism Part 2
Should developers spend time scripting around IE’s poor CSS support?
About fluid and fixed width layouts
A bit of talk about fixed, fluid, and elastic website design.
Creating Accessible JavaScript
How to use JavaScript without impacting accessibility.
Safari 1.3
A new version of Safari with lots of improvements is out.
Definitive Solution to Image Replacement
Image replacement that solves the images off, CSS on problem.
Going to @media 2005?
Who’s going to the @media 2005 conference in June?
EPiServer och tillgänglighet
A look at what is needed to make an EPiServer site accessible and standards compliant.
The Future: HTML or XHTML
HTML is next to dead, killed by non-conforming parsers.
Introduction to Web Accessibility
A brief explanation of the basics of web accessibility.
Planning Structural HTML
An introduction to structural HTML and how it helps preparing a document for CSS styling.
Doctype Declarations and Content-Type Headers
An explanation of what makes a browser treat XHTML as XHTML.
AJAX and Accessibility
Make sure you consider accessibility before using Ajax.
Class Presentation
Interesting discussion on how to keep class names non-presentational.
More Nifty Corners
Rounded corners without images or markup clutter, now even better.
404 oddities
Requests for strange and nonexistent files turn up in server logs.
Browser Elitism
Should we spend more time on working around the shortcomings of IE?
Why XHTML?
The debate on HTML vs. XHTML continues.
7 steps to better handheld browsing
Tips for giving people browsing with handheld devices a better experience.
Guidelines for UK government websites
Plenty of good advice for anyone building any kind of website.
Proper Flash embedding
Standards compliant JavaScript Flash detection and embedding updated.
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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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