Archived posts, April 2005
Proper Flash embedding
Standards compliant JavaScript Flash detection and embedding updated.
Guidelines for UK government websites
Plenty of good advice for anyone building any kind of website.
7 steps to better handheld browsing
Tips for giving people browsing with handheld devices a better experience.
Why XHTML?
The debate on HTML vs. XHTML continues.
Browser Elitism
Should we spend more time on working around the shortcomings of IE?
404 oddities
Requests for strange and nonexistent files turn up in server logs.
More Nifty Corners
Rounded corners without images or markup clutter, now even better.
Class Presentation
Interesting discussion on how to keep class names non-presentational.
AJAX and Accessibility
Make sure you consider accessibility before using Ajax.
Doctype Declarations and Content-Type Headers
An explanation of what makes a browser treat XHTML as XHTML.
Planning Structural HTML
An introduction to structural HTML and how it helps preparing a document for CSS styling.
Introduction to Web Accessibility
A brief explanation of the basics of web accessibility.
The Future: HTML or XHTML
HTML is next to dead, killed by non-conforming parsers.
EPiServer och tillgänglighet
A look at what is needed to make an EPiServer site accessible and standards compliant.
Going to @media 2005?
Who’s going to the @media 2005 conference in June?
Definitive Solution to Image Replacement
Image replacement that solves the images off, CSS on problem.
Safari 1.3
A new version of Safari with lots of improvements is out.
Creating Accessible JavaScript
How to use JavaScript without impacting accessibility.
About fluid and fixed width layouts
A bit of talk about fixed, fluid, and elastic website design.
Browser Elitism Part 2
Should developers spend time scripting around IE’s poor CSS support?
Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005
Tips for writing efficient, accessible, usable, and future-proof JavaScript.
Web browser standards support
Comprehensive charts of standards support. No Safari though.
Skip Links
A look at the the different approaches to implementing skip links.
Fixed or fluid width? Elastic!
A quick explanation of the concept of elastic width layouts.
Ten questions for Tommy Olsson
Tommy talks about MIME types, HTML, floats, accessibility, and more.
Generic Form Validation Routine
Useful, unobtrusive, progressive enhancement ECMAScript.
Keeping pretties out of content
How to decide which graphics are presentational and which are content.
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