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- Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Forms: inputting country names brucelawson.co.uk
The most accessible, user-friendly way to receive input that a user incontravertibly knows is to ask the user to type their response into a free-text field, rather than require them to select it.
- Juicy Studio: Fixing Quotes in Internet Explorer juicystudio.com
"Although Internet Explorer recognises the q element, it doesn't render the quotations marks around the quoted text. A CSS solution isn't possible, as Internet Explorer doesn't support the :before and :after pseudo-elements, so this article suggests a scr
"Techniques you can implement to achieve advanced accessibility, beyond the guidelines." Nothing radical
- Flash, JavaScript, and web standards: like sodium and water? - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
In my previous post I related my experience with implementing markup-only solutions to the task of incorporating multimedia into web sites, and later asserted a low opinion of a popular tool used for publishing SWF files.
I’ve just spotted Adobe as a “user” on del.icio.us. It’s interesting to see that organisations like this are using del.icio.us as an online marketing channel to increase brand awareness, page rank and general online visibility.
What strange new behaviour do we have to look out for in IE7? Are there things that work as expected in IE6 that don’t in IE7?
- IEBlog : Details on our CSS changes for IE7 blogs.msdn.com
Thank the lord!
- CSS tests and experiments brunildo.org
- JavaScript Lint javascriptlint.com
Check all your JavaScript source code for common mistakes without actually running the script or opening the web page.
- Main Page - Drip IE Leak Detector outofhanwell.com
A memory leak detector for Internet Explorer
A little app that would automate the whole process and run Internet Explorer 7 beta 3 in standalone mode. You can run multiple instances of it with no problem.
Download and extract my IE7 Standalone package, download the IE7 installation from Microsoft and copy to the same directory, and run the setup batch file.
- CSS Frames | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
- Have a Slice petewilliamsagency.com
This is an example of creating a semi-dynamic pie chart without the use of server-side imaging libraries
- Bare Naked App » Blog Archive » Displaying percentages barenakedapp.com
"No matter how many percentage bar’s will be displayed on the page the user will only need to wait for two images to be downloaded". Handy.
- trailfire trailfire.com
Mark web pages that interest you and add your comments.
- BrowsrCamp browsrcamp.com
Two services: a Safari screenshots generator (free) and a testing system based on VNC (paid).
- wikimapia blog: How to add a Google Map to any web page in 30 seconds. wikimapiablog.blogspot.com
- Amberlight - User Centred Research and Design Services amber-light.co.uk
London based Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Consultancy who provide user-centred research and design services to clients and partners in the UK and internationally.
Image clustering, a technique that allows you to create a single image comprising the set of all images used by your Web application. You can then use CSS to display only that portion of the image you're interested in
- Clickable Bliss — Introduction to Subversion Screencast clickablebliss.com
Targeted mainly at those who are new to version control, covering the conceptual ideas of version control, and then a walkthrough of examples from the desktop of OS X.
Records the position of every click on a page, building up a virtual heat map of visitor activity. It also provides user behaviour analysis, segmentation and tracking.
- CSE HTML Validator Firefox Extension htmlvalidator.com
Lets you easily validate documents from within Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.5 using the CSE HTML Validator Engine.
- jQuery tests be.twixt.us
A list of various jQuery tests I’ve thrown together for my own education using jQuery. They are here to be used, abused, stolen, and reused.
CruiseControl.NET is an Automated Continuous Integration server, implemented using the Microsoft .NET Framework.
- Tantek's Thoughts — 2006 July tantek.com
Here is a summary of 8 steps any web developer can take to improve their page code
Portable Document Format (PDF) accessibllity is not a new topic, it is well understood and explained by certain experts. However, the implications are universally unknown by organisations.
- Bold Moves : Homepage fordboldmoves.com
"A weekly updated video documentary series that takes you inside Ford..." Where's the graceful degradation, eh?
- Tamper Data :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software addons.mozilla.org
View and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters, trace and time http response/requests, security test web applications by modifying POST parameters.
A quick Photoshop style Layout Grid Bookmarklet
- Aptana: The Web IDE aptana.com
A robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications.
- ClickTale :: Because every user has a story clicktale.com
Watch movies of how users interact with your website. Gain valuable insights to maximize usability
- Google Accessible Search labs.google.com
"Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged." Hurrah!
- A re-introduction to JavaScript - MDC developer.mozilla.org
Why a re-introduction? Because JavaScript has a reasonable claim to being the world's most misunderstood programming language. While often derided as a toy, beneath its deceptive simplicity lie some powerful language features.
- S5 Project s5project.org
A new community site, dedicated to the S5 Presentation software, originally developed by Eric Meyer.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
A simple, but effective way to give an extreme visual example to show the editors that something has gone horribly wrong
...thinking more and more about the most efficient way to build out markup and CSS
Allows JavaScript to check if accessibility features exist on the user’s computer by using a hidden (1 pixel x 1 pixel) Flash application.
- DOM Scripting: FlashAid domscripting.com
Some way to make use of Flash to detect a screen reader and pass on that information to JavaScript.
an archive for the jQuery mailing list
"An easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool" similar to 37signal's Basecamp.
- Garrett Dimon / The Time is Now for Front-End Architects garrettdimon.com
Missed this first time round: "The web needs more front-end architects before poor implementations of front-end technology hobble the potential benefits of recent advances."