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These posts are short comments on longer articles posted elsewhere. They vary in length, and some have interesting discussions going on in the comments.

VisioVoice makes VoiceOver multilingual

Software vendor AssistiveWare is bringing multilingual support to Apple’s VoiceOver screen reader.

Posted on March 21, 2006

Flash and search engine optimisation

Add Flash progressively and provide alternative content for people and user agents that can’t or won’t access information contained in Flash files.

Posted on March 14, 2006

What is your level of CSS knowledge?

A description of the different levels of CSS knowledge you may encounter within the web industry.

Posted on March 8, 2006

Standards aware .NET developer wanted

Looking for a web standards savvy ASP.NET developer to fill a position at NetRelations, located in Göteborg, Sweden.

Posted on March 3, 2006

SVG support in Safari

The latest nightly builds of Safari have built-in SVG support, including text rendering.

Posted on February 2, 2006

Five ways of improving your website

Five actions you can take to improve areas where the quality of many websites deteriorates over time.

Posted on January 31, 2006

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.

Posted on January 27, 2006

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.

Posted on January 24, 2006

Looking for web development patterns

Collecting web development design patterns to promote the development of a pattern language for web development.

Posted on January 19, 2006

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.

Posted on January 18, 2006

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?

Posted on January 17, 2006

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.

Posted on January 15, 2006

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.

Posted on January 13, 2006

Search engines and canonical URLs

Advice on helping search engines pick the right URL when there are multiple URLs available for a certain page.

Posted on January 12, 2006

Styled bar graphs marked up as lists or tables

How to use CSS to create bar graphs from unordered lists or data tables.

Posted on January 11, 2006

Quoting blockquotes

How to enclose blockquotes in large and stylish quotation marks without using images.

Posted on January 9, 2006

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.

Posted on January 8, 2006

18 blogging lessons

A list of things that are important to keep in mind when you start blogging.

Posted on January 7, 2006

Luminosity contrast ratio

WCAG 2.0 suggests calculating the luminosity contrast ratio between foreground and background colours to ensure readability.

Posted on January 6, 2006

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?

Posted on January 5, 2006

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