Archived posts, November 2004
Embedding Macromedia Flash in XHTML
Possible or not? Yes. No. Maybe. Who knows.
Mozilla, clearers, and dropped floats
I've come a cross a very strange bug in late Mozilla builds. It seems to have spread to the latest Camino nightlies as well as to Firefox …
Uncollapsing Margins
Eric Meyer explains CSS margin collapsing and how to avoid it.
Can We Speed Up Browser Evolution?
Some interesting ideas on how adoption of modern web browsers can be sped up.
The Underscore Hack
A useful looking CSS hack.
Web standards elitism
In Oh that elitist smell, Molly Holzschlag writes about the perceived elitism of web standards advocates like the W3C, the WaSP, and the A…
The sound of title separators
How a screen reader pronounces some common title separators.
Image replacement considered evil
Some interesting observations on image replacement.
Firefox 1.0
Finally. Firefox 1.0 is out. Don't miss it! If for some reason you still haven't dumped that big blue e (Internet Explorer), now is the ti…
PDF and accessibility
The current state of accessibility of PDF documents.
Ten questions for me
Russ Weakley (Max Design, Web Standards Group) has been doing a series of great interviews with web standards advocates. Recently, Russ in…
Netscape Revived With Firefox Backing
AOL is bringing Netscape back to life. This time they're basing it on Firefox.
The Mobile Web
The killer app for web standards?
Who framed the web: Frames and usability
Back in the nineties, using frames to split a browser window into several independent parts was very popular. Much due to the increased aw…
Invasion of the Body Switchers
A List Apart is back, with a new take on style sheet switching.
Thinking with Type
Typography examples and guides.
Growing Up With Web Standards
Don't stop writing about web standards.
Quotations and citations: quoting text
When quoting text in HTML, there are several ways of marking up the quoted text. Which way you choose depends on what you're quoting, how …
Scalable rounded edges
Turn a definition list into a scalable box with rounded corners.
Accessible and usable forms
Guidelines and examples that help you create accessible and usable web forms.
Accessibility: Panning for gold
Thoughts on accessibility and the use of automated checking tools.
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