Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Internet Explorer blog released a story by JP Gonzalez-Castella, IE8′s accessibility program manager. Here’s a summary of their points and the changes in IE8 that will improve accessibility. All users will benefit from the new features. Making software more accessible helps everyone. Improvements in keyboard use include Caret Browsing feature, Accelerators, Web Slices and [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
With the upcoming release of IE8, which will support CSS display:table and other table related display properties, I’m expecting changes in the way web pages are laid out. I just finished an intensive experience with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and the built-in CSS layouts that come prepackaged with the product. Naturally, my mind veered in the [...]
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Every fall the sandhill cranes return to the Rio Grande bosque and the wetlands along the Rio Grande for wintering. Watching them is a favorite annual activity. This year my Tai Chi instructor suggested we do Tai Chi with the cranes in an Open Space area near the river. A previous Open Space visitor left [...]
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools from Smashing Magazine summarizes a number of good plug-ins, inspectors, debuggers, evaluators, and other tools that work right in your browser. Michael Heller and the Gridlock Economy is a book review at World Changing. It talks about ownership. Heller says when too many people own something, gridlock results. Here’s [...]
Monday, September 22, 2008
Today is OneWebDay. It’s a day to think about issues that are important to the future of the Internet. Here is the list of ideas for how you can help with OneWebDay from the organization’s web site. How can you help the Web on OneWebDay? 1. If you’re a Web user, use a standards-compliant Web [...]
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Remember this terms of service paragraph? By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Yesterday Laura from rarepattern was tweeting about Ubiquity. I hadn’t heard of it, so I was glad to see that she wrote a full blog post about it today in Semantic meaning with Ubiquity. Be sure to watch the video from the developer that explains all about this new Firefox plugin. All the links you [...]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Have you seen this fascinating fountain in San Francisco? It’s in the park across the Embarcadero from the Ferry Building. I stopped for a look after BlogHer08 in July. Then I came home and got to work writing for eHow. How to Speed Up Blogging with ScribeFire How to Blog on a Mac with MarsEdit [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Control-Tab: A New Feature for Firefox from Mozilla was announced a couple of weeks ago. It will work like Alt-Tab (or Cmd-Tab on Mac) works with application switching, except it will switch between Tabs in Firefox. Wish I’d known about this when I wrote How to Work with Tabs in Firefox. Here’s the Ctrl-Tab download [...]
Went to Mesa Verde the other day. An inspiring place that remains one of my favorite national treasures. I’ll be going walkabout for a few days and won’t post for a while. I thought I’d let you know what I’ve done at eHow this month before I go. How to Use Server Absolute or Root [...]
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