Archived posts, May 2007
Browsers will treat all versions of HTML as HTML 5
Browsers claiming to support HTML 5 are required to treat all text/html content according to the HTML 5 specification.
Help keep accessibility and semantics in HTML
If you think accessibility and semantics are important and should be improved in the next version of HTML, you need to act.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design (Book review)
Jason Beaird explains the principles of graphic design for the Web in a way that people who aren’t graphic designers can understand.
Is HTML 5 a slippery slope?
Tommy Olsson comments on the possibility of backwards compatibility and standardised error handling being bad for overall code quality.
Another look at HTML 5
Further thoughts on the HTML Working Group and HTML 5, plus a few suggestions.
O’Reilly sites implement ReadSpeaker voice technology
The same technology that I use to offer an audio version of my RSS feed is now used across the O’Reilly network of websites.
Use only block-level elements in blockquotes
Blockquote elements are only allowed to contain block-level and script elements in Strict Doctypes.
WCAG 2.0 Working Draft updated
The WCAG Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 and issued a new Call for review.
Creating bulletproof graphic link buttons with CSS
How to use CSS and two images to create flexible, shrinkwrapping, image based link buttons.
Why styling form controls with CSS is problematic
Eric Meyer explains the technical reasons for form controls being so hard to style consistently across platforms.
Is it time for CSS 2.2?
Is it time to form a 2nd Generation CSS Samurai to create a CSS 2.2 specification?
WCAG 2.0 Working Draft May 2007: A closer look
Jack Pickard has taken a good look at the latest Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, and likes what he sees.
Accessible expanding and collapsing menu
Using JavaScript to turn a nested list into an accessible dynamically expanding and collapsing menu.
Bulletproof Ajax (Book review)
Jeremy Keith explains how to use Ajax in an unobtrusive manner, minimising the negative impact it can have on accessibility.
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