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The Web today is very different to what it was in 1994, when the World Wide Web Consortium was established. Roger Hudson’s article - The Evolving Web - looks back at the early history of the Web and uses Pace Layering theory to consider some recent developments and the role of the W3C in the […]

Links with background images - three simple fixes for IE
Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry
Sign Up Forms Must Die
Margins & paddings pt5/the final solution
Microsoft Accessibility Labs
Making IE6-friendly’ PNG8 Images
We Tried To Warn You, Part 1
Cues, The Golden Retriever
Bridging the Designer–User Gap
960 grid system
How to Completely Test Your Website
101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your […]

Designing for the Mobile Web
Great CSS Techniques and the Simple Truth Behind Them
Margins & paddings pt4/solution 2
Equidistant Objects with CSS
Office Format Sucks on Purpose
Contacts Data API
Extending The JavaScript Date Object with User Defined Methods
A Command of Headings: Usage and Styling
Perfect pagination style using CSS
Google is good but it’s not God
Website Optimization Measures, Part III
Portable […]

Margins and paddings pt3/solution 1
8 Premium One Line CSS Tips
Liquid expandable section with rounded corners using CSS

IE8: The Bad
10 complaints the customers have about the design of corporate web sites
Internet Explorer ID-Class bug
Microsoft & IE8: Let’s Move On and Make It Great
Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience
Extensible CSS Interface II: CSS Selectors & jQuery

3 Important […]

We are excited to now announce the date and time for a huge BarCampSydney3.

When:
5th and 6th April 2008
Where:
Roundhouse at UNSW on Anzac Pde, Kensington
More info:
About BarCampSydney
BarCampSydney wiki
BarCampSydney - Signup

Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8
Meta-change
Microsoft rethinks IE8’s default behavior
Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default
Screen Readers lack emphasis
On Creativity
Design is in the Details
Interview: Roger & Molly: Webstock New Zealand
WCAG Samurai
Things Every Designer Should Know
Delivering code/how to avoid conflict
Advanced image management
Twelve Things Most Sites Need, Part I and II:
HTML, the Foundation of […]

It seems the IE8 development team have been listening to the community, which is great news:
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.
Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8

I don’t know about you, but I get very excited when I see an Internet Explorer 6 bug in the wild. It’s like bird-watching - coming across these weird and quirky rendering bugs in their natural habitat.
Take for example a recent update I made to a client’s home page. The two new buttons at the […]