Links from 2006

A free software development kit [featuring] the latest versions of the Openwave® Mobile Browser and Openwave® Mobile Messaging Client, as well as documentation and sample code for authoring wireless applications using XHTML/CSS and MMS-SMIL.

An open source PHP Application Framework

"I wanted a robust javascript validation library that was simple to implement and didn't require me do any extra work other than creating the form. My favourite idea for a method of doing this is to utilise the field elements' class attribute to indicate

"While Azureus and µTorrent both have built-in RSS parsing and downloading features, Ted is the most user-friendly, simplest solution I’ve seen for downloading television on a schedule, and since all it does is download the torrent and open it in your

Add your favourite tv shows to ted and ted will automatically download torrents of new episodes!

It’s time we designers stop thinking of ourselves as merely pixel people, and start thinking of ourselves as the creators of experiences. And when it comes to experience on the web, there’s no better way to create it than to write, and write well.

The production of wine also throws up a number of concerns, with the reality often far from the bucolic idyll of lore.

Digital UK TV spots featuring Matt Lucas.

Television in the UK is going digital, bringing us all more choice and new services. Digital UK, the not-for-profit organisation set up by the public service broadcasters, is here to help.

Ajax accessibility. I knew nothing about it, so I ran some user tests and presented original research.

"For all of the excitement and hype, still very little has been said on the subject of AJAX and accessibility.

"Although many of us web professionals just 'kinda know' that AJAX is bad for web accessibility, when pushed many would not be able to say exactly why or how certain screen readers cope with content that's been changed using AJAX (or using DOM Scripting m

"[A] little bit of Perl scripting lets you take the HTML from one page, add the styles of another, and end up with a hideously mutated beast that can sometimes be amusing, sometimes be revealing, but most of the time looks like a fourth generation hillbil

Marked “considered harmful” [...] the comments are good, though

"Does the attribute/value set rel="external" provide a useful addition to navigation for those who might make use of other instances of the rel attribute? Or is it simply a case that it uses the rel convention without actually adding anything substantial

Top 5 reasons why you should beware of opening links in a new window.

When using PC-native file formats such as PDF or spreadsheets, users feel like they're interacting with a PC application. Because users are no longer browsing a website, they shouldn't be given a browser UI.

My version has a few subtle differences up it’s sleeve.

Here is a small collection of web design trends that I predict we will all be completely sick of in about 6 months.

"A font for programming must be monospaced, extremely readable, and must sharply distinguish between similar characters, such as capital O and zero and the number 1, capital I, and lowercase L. In addition, good programming fonts allow you to view more li

They're the common cultural currency of our time, the basic cinematic texts that everyone should know, at minimum, to be somewhat "movie-literate."

Each page is based on what I'm calling a 'zooming' layout. By that I mean that the information view and relevance on the page zooms out as the page goes down.

The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.

Help us discover what bbc.co.uk 2.0 looks like. We don't just want you to redesign the bbc.co.uk homepage, we want you take it all the way back to the drawing board…

You can go either of two ways to replace your Ipod battery: have Apple replace your battery for you for $99 or you can do it yourself for $29.

There is a danger of adversly effecting semantics through incorrect use of CSS.

The single most effective decision you can take to reduce your impact on the climate is not to fly. In the absence of any leadership from government, we offer you the chance to pledge to limit the number of flights you take each year.

A twist on the Lightbox technique

With the imminent launch of IE7 your usual CSS hacking methods are going to fail. If you want to save web design, as we know it, it’s time to take some drastic action.

The dissertation approaches some key accessibility questions in the UK; do small businesses know that they are expected to provide accessibility and are they prepared to bite the bullet and shell out for an upgrade?

Chocolaterie now open in Islington.

A pop-up window that doesn't suck.

An alternative Bugzilla client. It is a desktop application with interactive user interface and unique capabilities that are a valuable addition to the feature-rich web-based Bugzilla software.

The prime rule is: Consider what the page looks like or sounds like when images are not shown. Then, write for each image an alt text that best works as a replacement.

Due to its seemingly presentational nature not many designers use it, opting to set the width using CSS instead. [However], 'size' is not presentational.

All we need to do is designate a CSS style with multiple background-images. As your browser reads the style, it will load each image you designate in succession, thus pre-loading your images.

One area of Web design that is going to become more important in the coming years is high DPI.

As you listen to music via the excellent Pandora music service each song gets submitted to your profile on Last.FM.

Friday 28th April, 6.30pm for 6.45pm, Free for UPA members, £10 for Non UPA members (£5 for students).

A longlist of what are deemed the 50 best film adaptations of all time.

A Linux-like environment for Windows.

With Crazy Egg you can easily see where visitors are clicking on a page and where they're not.

Describes how we used one blogging package (WordPress) to replace a traditional content management system (phpWebSite) to run a community website.

Replaces the behavior of Ctrl+Tab. Instead of directly changing tab it works some thing like Alt+Tab on windows.

Could be useful for images but wouldn't let it near my HTML. "Strips the redundant information often contained in GIF, JPEG, PNG and HTML files, reducing their size by sometimes as much as 40 or 50%."