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- evil.che.lu - No more IE6 background flicker evil.che.lu
Fixing "the background flicker that happens when you hover a link that has an image as its backgound"
Nomensa investigated the accessibility of websites belonging to the top 30 most popular online retailers, based on visits from UK shoppers.
- UK's top web retailers failing the disabled | The Register theregister.co.uk
Usability agency Nomensa tested the retail websites and found that none fulfilled the most basic accessibility guidelines.
A very early iteration of a microformats cheat sheet. It lists the properties by format and also lists each format and the hierarchy. This includes elemental microformats, compound microformats and some of the standard design patterns used.
Why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contain hazardous substances that other companies have abandoned?
- CSS Shorthand Guide dustindiaz.com
Over the years, I’ve found quite some interesting unknown quirky facts about these shorthands…
reformats and compresses Web pages for optimal use on nearly any type of handheld device on the market.
- OpenAjax Alliance openajax.org
The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using Ajax that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies.
OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.
- Dynamic-CD : The web server on CD phdcc.com
"Give out your web site - on CD, DVD, USB stick or laptop." Hmmm.
Microformat tools
- Real Wireframes Get Real Results - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com · Archived on
- A List Apart: Articles: Text-Resize Detection alistapart.com
We’ll give you a way to detect your visitors’ initial font size setting—and a way to find out whenever your visitor increases or decreases the font size.
The problem is that your server is not specifying a character set for the style sheet, so the browser has to guess. There is no canonical way to guess.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
You may not be aware, unless you’ve read the actual DOCTYPE documents themselves (and frankly, who wants to do that?) that the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE tells you to avoid using the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE if you can.
- texturbation » Blog Archive » Privacy Policies Should Have RSS Feeds texturbation.com
"If there were RSS feeds, users could read a privacy policy when they first started using a service, then subscribe to the RSS feed using whatever feed service they use. They wouldn’t have to regularly check the web site for updates, and they wouldn’t
- Tracking your buzz applestooranges.com
What’s the best tools out there for keeping track of your online buzz?
- CSS Frames v2, full-height | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
The layout I describe here will have a fixed header at the top of the page, a scrolling content area in the middle, and a fixed footer at the bottom of the page.
Seven new fonts that will be part of the new Windows O/S, codenamed Longhorn.
- On fonts for the Web | clagnut/blog clagnut.com
Quick fonts on t'web roundup.
Using jQuery’s plugin architecture, a number of smart people have taken the built-in effects one step further, creating some very pleasing modules for image enhancement.
- Juicy Studio: Using the title Attribute juicystudio.com
Current user agents provide very poor access to title text information, and what access they do provide is typically inaccessible for people with disabilities.
- 10 things businesses should know before building a website | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com · Archived on
- rikrikrik - Interview: John Resig of jQuery rikrikrik.com
- MySource Matrix Open Source CMS - Home matrix.squiz.net
"Open Source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP". YACMS.
- evhead: Pageviews are Obsolete evhead.com
In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors.
- Typefaces no one gets fired for using ~ Authentic Boredom cameronmoll.com
Make a list. Tested typefaces that are rock-solid reliable for print, web, or both.
- Design by Fire designbyfire.com
- Digital Web Magazine - The Big Picture on Microformats digital-web.com
How are microformats faring a year or so after their coming-out party?
- A List Apart: Articles: Elastic Design alistapart.com
You may want your website to display in a specific way, but your users may want it another way. Enforcing anything on a user is bad for usability and therefore detrimental to the success of the website.
In their eagerness to be good Web citizens, people sometimes use semantic markup when they shouldn’t. Most commonly, this happens with bold and italics.
Generally, it means to use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for less blog-ish content and presentation style. We’re looking at portfolio sites, news and magazine sites, article libraries, gallery sites, photologs, e-commerce sites, and many more.
Most browsers do not allow for the Flash plugin to be turned on and off. Instead, you're asked to delete the plugin. jTFlashManager gives you the capability to turn Flash on and off for all of your browsers.
- Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing philip.greenspun.com
Old school. Still has some relevance.
- Favelets tantek.com
- Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) bluerobot.com
A large list of the factors that can influence a web document's rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase
A quick look at what microformats are and aren’t, then we’ll look at some very significant organizations already using them. Then we’ll take a look at just how easy it is to use them.
- jQuery: Blog: » jQuery 1.0 jquery.com
"The brand new jQuery 1.0". Hurrah!