Archived posts, January 2006
Five ways of improving your website
Five actions you can take to improve areas where the quality of many websites deteriorates over time.
Giving the user control over accesskeys
The accesskey attribute may cause conflicts with existing shortcut keys. Here are two different approaches to letting users define their own accesskeys.
Tagged, so here are four things
Veerle tagged me for the four things meme. Read on if you want to learn a little bit more about me.
Nokia’s WebCore-based S60 browser
A few people from the team behind Nokia’s new web browser for S60 mobile phones talk about the project and share some screenshots of the browser in action.
2006 Weblog Awards finalists announced
The 2006 Weblog Awards finalists have been announced, and 456 Berea Street is a finalist in the “Best web development weblog” category!
Moving house - expect lower posting frequency
I am moving house and will not have an Internet connection at home for approximately a month, so there will be fewer posts around here for a while.
Looking for web development patterns
Collecting web development design patterns to promote the development of a pattern language for web development.
Safari Web Inspector
Available in WebKit nightly builds, the Web Inspector you browse the DOM of the current document and inspect the properties of any element.
HTML or XHTML - does it really matter?
What would you say to a client asking which is better of HTML 4.01 Strict and XHTML 1.0 Strict?
The myth of the overpriced Mac
Even if Apple were to give away Macs for free, there would still be fanatic Mac-haters complaining that they are expensive and overpriced.
The CSS 3 multi-column layout model analysed
Comments on the good, the bad, and the missing features of the latest working draft of the CSS3 Multi-column layout module.
Efficient creation of sensible and usable forms
An article with good advice for making forms usable and a discussion about how web developers can be more efficient when creating online forms.
Search engines and canonical URLs
Advice on helping search engines pick the right URL when there are multiple URLs available for a certain page.
Styled bar graphs marked up as lists or tables
How to use CSS to create bar graphs from unordered lists or data tables.
CSS 3 selectors explained
CSS 3 brings us many powerful new CSS selectors. Browser support is currently lacking, but taking a look at what lies ahead is still useful.
Quoting blockquotes
How to enclose blockquotes in large and stylish quotation marks without using images.
Failed redesigns: Use web standards or don’t bother redesigning
Websites that, despite being created or substantially updated during the era of web standards, ignore or misuse those standards are failed redesigns.
18 blogging lessons
A list of things that are important to keep in mind when you start blogging.
Luminosity contrast ratio
WCAG 2.0 suggests calculating the luminosity contrast ratio between foreground and background colours to ensure readability.
Internet Explorer 7 and * html
The Star html Selector Bug will be fixed in Internet Explorer 7. Will it affect web developers who have exploited the bug to target specific CSS rules at IE?
@media 2006
Make sure you don’t miss the major European web development conference of the year - @media 2006 in London this June.
Web Developer Extension 1.0
Version 1.0 of the indispensable extension for Firefox, Flock, and Mozilla has many new features and bug fixes.
2006 Weblog Awards (Bloggies) nominations
Nominations for The 2006 Bloggies have opened. I have nominated my favourite weblogs of the year. Have you?
The role of graphic design on the web
Graphic design is very important on the web, but sometimes it is given too much importance, especially by graphic designers coming from ad agencies.
Accesskey problems remain in XHTML 2
The access element in XHTML 2 will apparently suffer from the same problems as the accesskey attribute in current versions of HTML and XHTML.
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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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