Category: browsers

IEBlog : IE7 Is Coming This Month…Are you Ready?

Microsoft wants your help in making sure IE7’s launch will be successful. IEBlog : IE7 Is Coming This Month…Are you Ready? They are asking people to take several preliminary steps and give them feedback about how things go. Especially if you are responsible to a large number of computers or if you have extensions and applications that need to be tested prior to the Automatic Updates that will bring IE7 to a computer near you very soon.

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Details on CSS changes for IE7

The IEBlog has published a list of 200 CSS support changes for IE7 at IEBlog: Details on our CSS changes for IE7. In addition to the list of what will be supported, there are links to an IE7 Readiness Toolkit, a Web Developer Toolbar for IE and other helpful resources for folks needing information about how to transition to 7.

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How Mike Cherim solved the Accesssite.org problem

The folks at accesssites.org strugged with the problem I talked about several times here in which their showcase page was unreadable by Safari 2.0 on Mac OS X (Tiger). It was indeed baffling and the resolution is still a little baffling to everyone involved. Mike documented it all here. Beast-Blog.com | Mike Cherim’s Professional and Personal Web Log | C.H.U.B. – Comment Hyphenation Ugh Bug

It turns out to be comments with two nested hyphens in them that caused the problem, but the weird part is it only affected the showcase page and not other pages coded the same way. Mike would like any others who’ve had a similar problem to let him know, as this does not seem to be documented anywhere else within Google’s range.

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A Public Apology to Access Sites

I had given “the mean mouth” to Access Sites a couple of times recently about their Access Sites Showcase page. It turns out that my normal setup on Mac OS X with Safari 2 is the rare combination that had a problem with the page. Most people were seeing a perfectly readable page with a white background.

Here’s what I heard from the Access Sites folks, “We did test extensively on other platforms, other browsers and operating systems, and UAs like Jaws, Lynx, etc., knowing full well that people would be giving us the eyeball (plus we do care and try to do it right anyway), but it is possible we missed something. Based on your reply we took 240 screenshots today and it seems as if we may indeed have an issue on the Macintosh OSX 10.4 using Safari 2.0.”

So the short version of the story is that they will indeed tackle this one and I’m sure they’ll have it fixed ASAP. My job, now, is to issue this public apology to the folks at Access Sites for sending out harsh words in their direction.

I once again encourage all my readers to prepare and submit accessible work to them for consideration in their showcase. My original thought when I first heard of the site was what a great idea and I still think it is. Not only a great idea, but accessible to everyone, even Mac OS 10.4/Safari 2.0 (and every other device out there in page rendering land).

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Yahoo! Graded Browser Support

Yahoo! Developer Network: Graded Browser Support This article describes Yahoo’s concept of graded browser support. Author Nate Koechley said,

Support does not mean that everybody gets the same thing. Expecting two users using different browser software to have an identical experience fails to embrace or acknowledge the heterogeneous essence of the Web. In fact, requiring the same experience for all users creates a barrier to participation. Availability and accessibility of content should be our key priority.

Be sure to read all the way to the end for the link to the table showing various browsers according to their grade of support.