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Thirty years ago: Mount St. Helens

Thirty years ago I was living at my Dad’s in Yakima, going to college. That Sunday was a beautiful day, and Dad was outside in the garden as I was getting ready to go to work. I worked for a photographer, who had a studio in the Yakima Mall. I liked working Sundays. Sundays were […]

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HTML5 Specs

Progress Element: what I’ve found

To recap my weekend effort with the WebKit nightly implementation of the HTML5 progress element: I created a application that uses the progress element and provides a text-based fallback for the element. You need to use setAttribute and getAttribute to get the progress element’s value attribute, as accessing the attribute directly on the object only works when […]

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Just Shelley

Car advice

OK, time to ask the auto gurus among you for some help. My car has had a relay clicking sound in the dash for some time (driver’s side, left of steering column, bottom part of dash). It occurs erratically, though lately it’s become much more frequent. The sound only occurs when I’m driving, and seems […]

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HTML5 Specs

Cross-browser implementation of the progress element

A useful coincidence: just after I wrote my concerns about the progress element, the WebKit nightly contains the first implementation of this element. I created an application to test the element. It works as I expected, and is somewhat accessible, though Mac’s VoiceOver would only voice the progress when the element first receives focus. Note, support for the […]

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Is the Progress element truly progressive?

One of the new HTML5 elements is the progress element. It’s an element that allows the web page developer to provide minimum, maximum, and current value attributes, and the browsers update the appearance accordingly. If the value attribute isn’t present, the progress element is considered an indeterminate progress element. In other words, a throbber, such as this example, created using […]