Archive for the ‘Web Standards’ Category

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 ...

Change is Coming

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

Change is coming: WordPress » Development Blog » Announcing WordPress 1.5 I have been using WordPress at work for some collaboration and info sharing projects and it has been a huge hit. I found the thing very easy to install and customize. I like it ...

Vendor (un)Lock

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

PCWorld.com - IE Continues to Lose Grip on Market PC World suspects continued bleeding of Internet Explorer's market share may be staunched somewhat by dependence on proprietary markup and scripting practices to access certain websites. My emphasis added: Firefox still appears to be maintaining the momentum ...