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 […]
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 […]
Categories
Dad’s WWII Gun
Categories
Misfeed
Just realized that my redirected feed was no longer being redirected. Though I haven’t been writing much, I have been writing at some of my sites. I’m also redesigning again, based on the work I’m doing creating an ePub theme and application for Drupal. Needless to say, the design is clean. Very, very clean. One […]
Categories
An Appleless future
It is time to buy new computers. My desktop Windows computer is a 4+ year old Dell laptop with a burnt out LCD that I hook up to an external monitor. It’s running Windows XP, and could potentially be upgraded to Windows 7, but only with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. My laptop is […]