Monthly Archives: April 2003

The REAL reason support for print media CSS is so poor

Imagine if people didn’t have to use Acrobat or Word to print out legible, neatly organized documents? Well, they almost can. They almost could if there was good support of CSS rules and attributes related to print media. Mozilla does … Continue reading

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How the semantic Web influenced my writing style

Other folks have probably written essays on how hypertext has influenced writing style in other media. Here I’d like to briefly discuss how working with and correcting document markup to make it conform to the semantic intent of the W3C … Continue reading

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Accessible data table attributes

Even though many screen readers and Web browsers don’t support them yet, I put accessibility attributes in all the data tables I put on sites. (Don’t know how to build an accessible data table? Use the accessible table builder.) The … Continue reading

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Another Big Company adopts Web standards

By way of Evolt, I just learned that Cingular Wireless redesigned their site to validate as strict XHTML 1. Progress is being made comrades! They will eventually come to understand the vanguard of the revolution!

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The destruction of global memory

My friend is furious, disgusted and deeply saddened by the looting and destruction of priceless archeological and historical treasures in the Cradle of Civilization. He said: “Do you know why there are sixty seconds to a minute, or sixty minutes … Continue reading

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Something I should have done a long time ago

Ever since I left the Company that Shall Not be Named back in July of 2000 I’ve been failing to do something: set up my own proprietorship. Since 1996 until I left I was what they call a permatemp. Initially … Continue reading

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Editor progress and lack thereof

So looking at the Kevin’s editor, I see that it uses Mozilla’s midas component. As my ignorance slides away, I discover to my horror that Midas and MSHTML both generate markup differently from each other and they both generate markup … Continue reading

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Building a better editor for Greymatter

So upon seeing Kevin Roth’s cross-platform WYSIWYG editor, I decided that would be a great thing to replace the JavaScript editor on Greymatter’s entry and revision forms with. I’ve been very busy and plan to be pretty busy through the … Continue reading

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More javascript trickery

Yesterday, while sifting through blogdex, I found a link to a javascript authored by Merek Prokop that fixes Internet Explorer’s lack of support for the ABBR tag. Looking for further I discover that the source that introduced this link into … Continue reading

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Making ABBR work in IE

The abbr tag doesn’t work in Internet Explorer for Windows, but, using client-side scripting, you can make it work. It occurred to me while reading Marek’s article, that a similar trick could be used to avoid messing up your pages … Continue reading

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