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Some links for light reading (28/10/08)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

50 Beautiful Blog Designs
JavaScript Will Save Us All
Multi-threading in JavaScript
Typeface.js
Malware? We don’t need no stinking malware!
A Scenario-based Approach to Evaluating Social Software
An Exercise for Emerging CSS Experts: Avoid IDs and Classes
Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong
Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book
Web Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Better Than a Poke in the […]

WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) is about to be released, introducing some changes in the recommendations for website accessibility. WIPA is presenting this afternoon seminar to help the web community understand WCAG 2.0 and prepare sites with improved accessibility.

Roger Hudson will provide an overview of WCAG 2.0 and the compliance […]

Some links for light reading (21/10/08)

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

MAMA - Metadata Analysis and Mining Application
Mozilla For Mobile: Fennec
Fennec Releases
Rotating 3D cube in JavaScript
Unicode Entity Codes for Math
Twitter as a Tool for Social Change
Choosy
PDAnet - turning your iPhone into a true WiFi router
World Plone Day, November 7th 2008
Announcing the AEGIS project
Metadata fundamentals for intranets and websites
Web Standards at Google
Floatitis pt1/an introduction
Floatitis pt2/using css […]

“Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property” - now in Brazilian-Portuguese

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property has now been translated into Brazilian-Portuguese by Mauricio Samy Silva.

Some links for light reading (14/10/08)

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

XHTML — myths and reality
Adding HTML validity checking to your ASP.NET web site via unit tests
Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices
Zoom
For and against standardizing font embedding
Getting a Form’s Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications
Design for iPhone: a device that thinks different
Easily Create Printable Pages with PrintWhatYouLike.com
CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer
Ontology of […]

“Styling abbreviations and acronyms” - now in Russian

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Styling abbreviations and acronyms has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: Аббревиатуры и акронимы

Some links for light reading (8/10/08)

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Understanding Progressive Enhancement
CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS
Acid3 receptions and misconceptions and do we have a winner?
Get rid of those YouTube EMBED tags
Automatic numbering with CSS Counters
Public consultation on browser standards for public sector Web sites: Opera’s response
Douglas Crockford: JavaScript Doesn’t Suck
Importance of link architecture
Wallswaps
Accessibility Heuristics
Legacy defeats consistency in IE 8’s Web 2.0 accessibility effort
15 […]

Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

I recently received the following question:
How do you vertically position a small image inside a paragraph of text?
Answer
Let’s start with an example - a paragraph that contains a single line of text and a small image (shown as the small blue box below).

Next, we need to look at the 6 primary lines that can be […]

“CSS Centering - fun for all” - now in Russian

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

CSS Centering - fun for all! has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: Способы css центрирования блоков

Some links for light reading (4/10/08)

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

BigTarget.js - Increase the size of click targets and get more call-to-action conversions
Multiple form labels and screen readers
Concept Design Tools
jParallax
Cascading
Quick Turnaround Usability Testing
Dmitry Baranovskiy Talks about Raphaël
Artur Ortega and Leonie Watson - Screenreaders and JavaScript
Using JQuery for background image animations
Web Inspector Redesign
Opera Web Standards Curriculum - updated
The Live Web
Swirrl: Newly Launched Semantic Web Wiki
Communicate Quick: […]