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September, 2006 archive

Some links for light reading (29/9/06)

Friday, September 29th, 2006

No More IE6 Background Flicker
Javascript crossfader
The Importance of User Experience- the Poster!
Microformats Cheat Sheet
Microformats Bookmarklet
More Microformats highlighting
12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
Long Live the Q Tag
IE 7 - is catching up good enough?
The Web API Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object
Space Explorer’s Flickre stream

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Some links for light reading (23/9/06)

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Google Goes To Web Standardsville, Part Two
Why standards still matter
The web standards war is far from over
Highlight Microformats with CSS
Objectifying JavaScript
Why people don’t use collaboration tools
JaS gallery
Unobtrusive Table Sort Script (revisited)
Easy CSS hacks for IE7
Vertical Centering in CSS
Creating grunge brushes
How to explain RSS the Oprah way
W3C Working Draft - CSS3 module: Generated Content for Paged […]

Index me, baby!

Friday, September 15th, 2006

I’ve just come away from a day long seminar on SEO where hiding text was described as a bad practice - regardless of the purpose or CSS method used. This seems to be a bit of a sweeping statement. Many of the sites I have built use hidden content in some form (either a form […]

Some links for light reading (13/9/06)

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Text-Resize Detection
A Standardista’s Alphabet
Understanding hype cycles
DemandVoice Hosts RSS Speech for Visually Impaired Users
IE7: Old Bugs For New
How to charge a client
Are accessibility evaluation tools useless?
Has accessibility been taken too far?
Accessibility follow-up
Let’s talk about accessibility
CSS shortcomings
Stackable CSS columns
The six species of Information Architect
Building Your Own Start-up Technology Company, Part 4
A Field Guide to […]

Some links for light reading (1/9/06)

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Using Google as a Top 10 List - The Power of SEO - expertise or marketing stunt?
Unitless line-height bug in Mozilla and Firefox
Geotagging - Great shot - where’d you take that?
WaSP Interviews Blake Elshire - On Student Experiences in Standards-based Education
10 things businesses should know before building a website
The Big Picture on Microformats
So You […]

Brisbane Web Standards Group August meeting

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Brisbane held a great WSG meeting last night with 49 peole attending. Lyn Eagers - manager of VisETrain talked about blind users perspective of the web, as well as demonstrating JAWS in action. Dr. Michael Rees describe the growing maturity of the Ajax technologies used to develop highly-interactive web sites that come into the Web […]