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- Public bodies face disability law change | The Register theregister.co.uk
The new Disability Equality Duty (DED) places a legal obligation on public bodies to consider the needs of the disabled when planning services.
- Firebug Lite getfirebug.com
"A JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate the Firebug console in browsers that are not named "Firefox"."
- IEBlog : IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine blogs.msdn.com
Now you can install IE7 on your main machine for development, and get all the advantages of IE7, like the RSS platform, native XMLHTTP stack, and improved security, while still running IE6 simultaneously in the VPC on the same computer.
- Flickr Terminates Fake User, Red Passion readwriteweb.com
A Flickr forum thread states that the Red Passion user (the one referenced in our post, representing a marketing campaign for a beverages company) has now been terminated.
- eboy XV » Product Detail hello.eboy.com
eboy's FooBar Poster. Spot the logos.
- Neil's World: Quickly compress PNG images neilturner.me.uk
How to add a ‘Crush’ option to the context (right-click) menu in Windows Explorer for quicker [PNG] crushing.
There was a large amount of interest in last month’s Web Application Form Design article, so I decided to provide some additional details.
- Label Placement in Forms :: UXmatters uxmatters.com
Evaluating label placement in forms with eyetracking.
- Vitamin Interviews » Steve Olechowski thinkvitamin.com
1. How is FeedBurner impacting on the way we understand media? 2. What kind of information about their readers do media and advertisers want? 3. RSS and television 4. How can RSS be developed?
Broken Windows Theory and Your Web Site says visiting a site with broken links, misleading navigation, or missing images is like visiting a neighborhood where “you get the feeling that no one cares.”
It turns out that most of web page performance is affected by front-end engineering, that is, the user interface design and development.
- SEOmoz | Page Strength SEO Tool seomoz.org
Designed to satisfy the curiosity of webmasters, surfers and web marketing professionals seeking a better metric to quickly assess a site/page's relative importance and visibility.
- IE expressions ignore CSS media types | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
The problem occurs when you use Microsoft’s proprietary CSS expressions. Any declarations that contain an expression will be applied when printing.
- Click here and other meaningless link phrases | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"One of those things that you have to keep educating clients about: writing good and informative link phrases." About 5 or 6 times a day, normally.
Not a full fledged comparison of both products, but I thought it might be of interest for other people as I came out with some interesting differences that might help someone else make their mind about them.
- jQuery Flash Plugin jquery.lukelutman.com
A jQuery plugin for embedding Flash movies.
- Natalie Downe » Blog Archive » Inline image quotes notes.natbat.net
A block quote [...] with speech marks at the front and termination of the text but without the nastiness of inline images.
- XFN - XHTML Friends Network gmpg.org
A simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks
- wg:Printing CSS background images (sort of) web-graphics.com
Using list-item to display images in print stylesheets.
- Adactio: Extras: Getting Microformats adactio.com
Big list of microformats resources
The following will build a successful site in one years time via Google alone.
- Simon Willison: Freeing the postcode simon.incutio.com
A few weeks ago, npemap.org.uk launched. It's an interface for browsing scans of out-of-copyright maps from the 1950s. The site asks people to enter post codes based on that old mapping data, which can then be placed in the public domain.
- SAP Design Guild -- Accessibility Legislation - an Insight sapdesignguild.org
Summary of accessibility legislation by country.
Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed.
- CSS: Browser testing order | And all that Malarkey stuffandnonsense.co.uk
Unless we are working to support a client's specific browser matrix (which might include odd combinations of older browsers), this is the order in which we test our CSS in browsers.
- BarCamp / minibar barcamp.org
A chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing p2p, Creative Commons, web applications, social networking and general Web 2.0 mayhem & fandango.
- GigaOM » Social Networking by the Numbers gigaom.com
Some interesting figures from social networking company executives here at the Web 2.0 Summit1. Cyworld and MySpace are, more than ever, heads and shoulders above the competition.
- BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books (book swap and book exchange and book trade) bookmooch.com
A community for exchanging used books [...] lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.
Choose LEGEND text that is:Concise: between 1 and 6 words; Relevant: to every single form field in the FIELDSET; Seamless: in that the words chosen for the LEGEND should make sense when joined to each label phrase.
- Joe Clark Micropatronage joeclark.org
I’m appealing to supporters to donate small amounts to support me while I start up a research project.
The biggest barrier in the networked world is convincing groups of people, not just individuals, simply to use (or even try!) your software.
- Vitamin Interviews » Jeff Veen thinkvitamin.com
Topics: 1. How designing for the web has changed / 2. How to measure the impact of usability checks / 3. Life at Google - and how Measure Map is playing out / 4. The state of the industry
- Masuga Design » Unobtrusive AJAX Star Rating Bar masugadesign.com
A rating bar script done with PHP and mySQL
- POW | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation addons.mozilla.org
Turn the web on its head with the Plain Old Webserver (POW), which adds a server to your browser.
- mb3Digg - http://michael.footloosemoose.com footloosemoose.com
- Content with Style: Playing Nice with the Other CSS Kids contentwithstyle.co.uk
My CSS Framework and Modular CSS articles touched on maintainability but here I am going to expand on those ideas, and attempt to suggest some guidelines to make team CSS coding and maintenance easier.
- CSS Photo Shuffler by Carl Camera : Demonstration Site iamacamera.org
A Javascript + CSS replacement for Flash photo fading slideshow. Inspired by Richard Rutter's image fade demonstration.
- Interface elements for jQuery - About Interface interface.eyecon.ro
A collection of plugins for jQuery java script library
- Tetris with jQuery fmarcia.info
- Juicy Studio: Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys juicystudio.com
"Firefox 2.0 uses Shift+Alt as the keystroke combination to invoke access keys. On the surface, this appears to be a great idea, as it avoids clashing with the shortcut keys used for the browser. Unfortunately, the new behaviour has been poorly implemente
- Accessibility statements or Site help pages? | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Are we supposed to stop providing them now? No, not really, but perhaps we should replace them with something better.
If some javascripts are only used by a small percentage of your visitors - why load them each time? It will only cost you bandwidth and your visitors download time [...] Lazy loading is the key. Or dynamic loading of .js files if you will.