Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Bob DuCharme has a guest post by the Chief Technology Strategist for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Sarah Bourne, on accessibility issues associated with microformats. She mentions both the abbr and include design patterns that others, most commonly Joe Clark, have brought up in the past. Ms. Bourne also has an interesting […]
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Tech specs
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I thought it interesting and even odd how few people have remarked on the fact that Ray Ozzie began the opening keynote of a conference focused specifically at developers by talking about ads. My source for things geek, Planet Intertwingly, has had very few entries devoted to IE8. I imagine people […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mathew Ingram has decided that the problem with the semantic web is that it’s as boring as dry toast. Of course, by Mathew’s standard, all the stuff that makes the web work is also boring as hell. It’s probably a good thing, then, that some people looked beyond the need for […]
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Our bouncing baby markup has growed up
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. On today’s tenth anniversary of the birth of XML, Norm Walsh writes: I joined O’Reilly on the very first day of an unprecedented two-week period during which the production department, the folks who actually turn finished manuscripts into books, was closed. The department was undergoing a two-week training period during which they would […]
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CSS auto kinda
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Here’s an interesting one: I’ve had a couple of folks point out that my site layout does not appear correctly in Safari. If the page is opened in a Safari browser that’s smaller than the width of my content setting (currently at 925 pixels), no horizontal scrollbar is generated. However, […]