Archived posts, January 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 in Accessibility

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.

Posted on January 10, 2006 in CSS

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 in CSS

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 in Search Engine Optimisation

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 in Browsers