Archive for the ‘Web Standards’ Category

University of Denver Recommends Against Vista, Office 2007

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

I received this email today from the University of Denver. The essence of it is: Don't upgrade to Vista or Office 2007. I thought I'd repost it here, with my own emphasis added for flavor: To: University of Denver Students Fm: Ken Stafford, Vice Chancellor for Technology Re: Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 As most of ...

A Discussion on Aesthetics & Engineering

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

Next week I get to be a panelist at the International Conference on Web Engineering at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The panel discussion is entitled: "Web Page Design- Aesthetics Meets Web Engineering." I think that historically (can I say "historically" in web context? I suppose it's been around long enough ...

Target.com garners accessibility lawsuit

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

A blind student from U.C. Berkeley is suing the Target Corporation because their website is inaccessible to blind users: The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court, said the upscale discounter's on-line business, target.com, denies blind Californians equal access to goods and services available to those who can see. "Target ...

Two Steps Back

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

I'm deeply concerned for Apple's lip service to web standards support in their latest suite of products. First of all, the iPhoto 6 RSS generation is invalid, proprietary, Safari/Apple-only code. Let me get out my yea flag and give it a wave. I'll use that feature approximately never. What is ...

DW8

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

What I love about the new Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: The Mac installer is a smaller download than the windows version. CSS code completion improvements PHP coder improvements and support for PHP5 Improved CSS rendering CSS visualization of margins and padding Faster than the last ...