IE (Internet Explorer), the Next Generation. I know – version 7 has only been available for a month and here we standards guys are, whining about it’s flaws. Let’s face it, though: IE 7, though better than it’s predecessor, is ultimately just a clumsy patch job. Roger Johansson has written up his big wishes, asking for some pretty wishful thinking options such as “Rewrite or replace the layout engine.” That’s a huge demand, and personally, I won’t be holding my […]
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Different Standards
On a day to day basis, I deal with W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards. However, there are certainly sets of standards (or guidelines) outside of the W3C which are good to be aware of. Thanks to Kim Krause Berg, I’m now aware of another document: Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines, courtesy of the United States Government. One of the keys which makes this worth noting is those two first little words: “Research-Based”. There’s nothing better than research (and […]
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So, Tim Berners-Lee (Sir) has a plan to Reinvent HTML (HyperText Markup Language). It’s an interesting idea. For years, it seems that HTML 4.01 was a closed book: story was finished, manuscript not to be picked up again. Instead, we were going to be moving on to XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language – HTML reformulated as XML (eXtensible Markup Language)). But suddenly we’re changing course: why? I can’t help but suspect that this is somewhat of an admission that the […]
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This is cool. Basically, this is a tool which studies the tag structure of your site and communicates it as a color-coded series of interconnected tags. Although this has little to do with web accessibility, it is an interesting way to visually communicate generalities about the structure of a website. If you read the original post by Aharef (get the funny joke in his handle?), you’ll get the opportunity to look at a variety of interesting graphs of major sites: […]
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I’m currently entering into the process of buying a house, so my thoughts are naturally finding ways to compare facets of buying a house with facets of web development. Today, I’m thinking of home inspection. When a home is inspected, the inspector will check out the building with two particular facets in mind: safety and function. Does it work? and Does it conform to building codes?. (I’m not going to go into the whole question of whether building codes mean […]
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