Buzz Archives for February 2006
Kudos to Michigan State
Michigan State University launched a redesign of its Web site, yesterday. Designed and developed with best practices that follow Web Standards and Web Accessibiity, the university Web site looks good and validates to the XHTML strict doctype. The redesign involved the teamwork of the MSU Libraries, Computing, and ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Education TF, Education, General
- Quick Explanation of the Object Literal
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Christian Heilmann explains the object literal JavaScript syntax.
By Christian Heilmann | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, DOM
- NFB vs. Target in perspective
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Since the National Federation of the Blind sued Target Corp. for the inaccessibility of its Web site, many people have taken sides, vilifying Target and/or lionizing NFB in turn. I think it's too early for that, if it's necessary at all. In terms of US law, this was a suit ...
By Matt May | Filed in Accessibility, Legal
- Yahoo Releases its User Interface Library
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Graded Browser Support, design patterns library, user interface library. Its been a busy day over at the Yahoo Developer Network.
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, Authoring Tools, DOM
- Yahoo! Developers: Setting a Standard for the New Professionalism
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In an article published Monday, February 13, 2006, Yahoo! Senior Web Developer Nate Koechley outlines the Yahoo! concept of Graded Browser Support. The approach is a work of art so beautiful and sensible it literally made me weep for joy. In light of ongoing discussion regarding a new professionalism for Web ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Browsers, Web Standards (general)
- Staying on Target
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A lot can happen in 24 hours. In the time since yesterday's post, Taking Aim at Target(.com), the Target.com web site has been changed to address at least the image based submit buttons on the Target Pharmacy sign in page. It no longer requires a mouse click to submit the forms. They ...
By Derek Featherstone | Filed in Accessibility, Legal
- Taking Aim at Target(.com)
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With a name like Target, you would almost think they would have seen it coming, wouldn't you? The US National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has brought legal action against Target corporation (a major US-based discount retailer which operates more than 1,300 stores in 47 states) because their web site is ...
By Derek Featherstone | Filed in Accessibility, Legal
!importantFixed in Later IE7 Releases-
It was brought to my attention today that the IE7 Beta 2 Preview wasn't honoring the role of the !important declaration and as such was causing alternative box model hacks to fail. !important is important for several important reasons. First is the very reason !important exists, which is to ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Browsers, CSS, Microsoft, Bugs
- AJAX for Eclipse
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IBM, Mozilla, Zimbra and Dojo announce a project to develop AJAX widgets for Eclipse.
By Chris Kaminski | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, Authoring Tools
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W3C Offers Online Training Course: Mobile Best Practices
By Holly Marie Koltz | May 4th, 2008
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative is offering the online training course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices from May 26 - June 20, 2008. The course is free, registration is open, but limited.
This course is aimed at experienced Web developers and designers who are interested in learning to develop content for mobile Web access using W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices.
Participants will have access to lectures and assignments providing hands-on practical experience with using W3C’s mobile Web Best Practices. They will have direct access to W3C experts on this topic who are the instructors for this course. Participants will also be able to discuss and share experiences with their peers who are faced with the challenges of mobile Web design.
For more information about the course, instructors, topics, and to view a free sample course, visit Online Training Course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices
Thanks also go to Henny Swan for posting an entry about this on her site at Want to Get Your Content Mobile.
Update: Registration is full and now closed.
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