Wednesday, February 3, 2010
ATMac tells about Accessing the iPad: Mouthsticks and Styluses with some tips for how a user with limited mobility can work the device. It’s useful to also read ATMac’s post Accessibility and the iPad: First Impressions. In the category of “stuff I didn’t know you could do but it sounds really great and I want [...]
It’s wise to test your site as you’re building it. Check your pages for accessibility, for validity, for appearance and function as you go along. Don’t wait until you’re finished to think about things like valid code and accessibility. Even when you do those things as a normal part of your process, you still need [...]
Saturday, January 2, 2010
CSS3 transitions and 2D transforms by Opera’s Molly Holzschlag and David Storey is an excellent tutorial explaining these exciting new CSS properties. Browser support isn’t universal yet, but don’t let that stop you from making the most of CSS3. The word is dead. Long live the word. Study: Rumors of Written-Word Death Greatly Exaggerated at [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
It can. Are you looking for a way for Twitter to locate mutual friends or people who know people you know? I love this feature on Facebook and often find BlogHers or long-lost classmates based on the application’s suggestions as to people I may know because they know people I know. People who know people. [...]
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
My local newspaper carried an article on Sunday that claimed that Google’s Chrome was a much better browser than the competition, particularly Internet Explorer. I don’t disagree with that conclusion, but there have been better browsers than IE around for a long time: Firefox, Opera, Safari and others. Yet IE still holds the majority of [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
Usability Issues that Impact Online Learning from Faculty Focus doesn’t mention specific tools that meet some of the standards suggested for good usability in online learning, but it does tell you some things to strive for: Good usability for online learning materials means the site, content, and media are easy to find, use, and navigate. [...]
You now have access to all the Sitepoint References for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript available in Firefox as an add-on. You can download the Codeburner add-on free from Sitepoint. The references provide syntax information, browser compatibility charts and sample code for HTML and CSS. The new add-on was just released. For a limited time, you [...]
This article is one in a series of brief discussions about the proposed specifications for HTML 5. View the Working Draft for HTML 5 at the W3C. The section element is a new semantic element. It groups related content. This might be a part or chapter in a book, a section in a chapter, or [...]
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