Apr 24
2006

The Adoption Rate of Internet Explorer 7

Christopher Schmitt does a good bit of research in an attempt to answer the all important queston: “When will your users start using Internet Explorer 7?” He analyzes the emergence of IE6 as a baseline for predicting IE7′s rise to dominance. Definitely worth a read. Visit Site

Apr 10
2006

Simultaneous Cross Plattform/Browser CSS Styling

Tired of having to refresh five different browsers everytime you make a change to your stylesheet while building a site? It sounds like a sales pitch, I know, but here’s a quick technique for setting up the browsers you are testing in to automatically reload your CSS while you work on it. The method involves [...]

Mar 31
2006

A Guide to CSS Support in Email

I’ve read several great articles from the folks at Campaign Monitor, and I’ve got to say that their latest update on the state of CSS in email is just as impressive and detailed. The touch on all popular PC and Mac applications as well as web-based email clients such as Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail. [...]

Mar 30
2006

Lightbox JS v2.0

Lokesh Dhakar has upgraded the very popular Lightbox JS concept. According to the site, upgrades include: Image Sets: group related images and navigate through them with ease Visual Effects: fancy pants transitions Backwards Compatibility: yes! So if you are looking for a bit more out of your implementation of the script, this may be just [...]

Mar 28
2006

Preparing for Widescreen

Here’s a fairly uncomplicated method of building dynamic width pages. It uses a few lines of JavaScript to detect the browser width of your site’s visitor and then loads a corresponding CSS file that fits the screen width. The technique means having to maintain more than one stylesheet, but it’s a small price to pay [...]

Mar 28
2006

Evaluating Website Accessibility: Part 3, Digging Deeper

You’ve already preformed some basic evaluations on your site’s accessibility. You’ve used a variety of automated tools available. Now it’s time to go a bit deeper. Roger Johansson wraps up this good series with a few more pointers to iron out all your accessibility issues. The topics he covers include: Colour contrast Document titles Link [...]

Mar 21
2006

IE 7 Beta Preview 2 Out Now

While this is not the “official” Beta 2 release for the browser, it has been dubbed layout complete. According to WaSP “…the rendering engine and CSS interpretation are exactly as they will be in the final public version.” What does this mean for you? Well, it pretty much tells us that how your site looks [...]

Mar 16
2006

Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 2, Basic Checkpoints

Roger Johansson has published the second article in his series on accessibility. In it, he offers a list of checkpoints to go over when testing your site’s accessibility: Validate HTML and CSS No frames, please Automated accessibility checking tools Images and alternative text Make sure that JavaScript is unobtrusive Increase text size Look for semantic [...]

Mar 16
2006

Pushpin Header

I don’t often have to format tabular data for web presentation, but I can see this technique being extremely useful in the future. Cody Lindley has published a quick technique employing CSS to fix position the thead of his table so that it is always present even as the tabular data below it scrolls. Visit [...]

Mar 07
2006

Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 1, Background and Preparation

Roger Johansson is starting what appears to be a promising 3 part series of arcticles on website accessibility. The first of the series contains a great background on the state of accessibility around the world, a concise definition of accessibility, tools of the trade, and a list of checkpoints to keep track of when developing [...]