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In Web Design, by 456bereastreet, September 9, 2010

Now that Apple has made it possible to create Safari Extensions I’ve been looking for some useful ones. After searching the Web a bit and browsing Apple’s Safari Extensions Gallery, these are the ones I have installed:

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In Web Design, by 456bereastreet, September 8, 2010

This month Authentic Jobs turns five years old. I’ve been a member and listing partner (look in the sidebar for job listings from Authentic Jobs if you’re reading this on 456bereastreet.com) since early 2007, so I haven’t been along for the entire ride, but long enough to have seen this job board evolve and grow plenty. I have also seen how hard Cameron Moll works to keep Authentic Jobs current and fresh.

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In Web Design, by 456bereastreet, September 6, 2010

The main reason is that screen readers run alongside (or on top of, if you prefer) regular web browsers and do not have a user agent string of their own that you can sniff.

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In Web Design, by 456bereastreet, September 2, 2010

Everybody wants to use CSS 3 now that even Internet Explorer will support parts of it once IE 9 is out. But since parts of CSS 3 are still subject to change, most browsers use a vendor prefix for many CSS 3 properties to signal that their implemenation is “experimental” and may change in a later version of the browser.

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In Web Design, by 456bereastreet, August 30, 2010

A couple of months ago I advised people to Be careful with non-ascii characters in URLs. We’ve been discussing that at work lately, more specifically whether characters like ":" and "/" are allowed unencoded in query strings or not.

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In Web Design, by 456bereastreet, August 26, 2010

To do that, you can either let the server do it for you or minimise the files yourself before uploading them to the server. Letting the server do it automatically is probably the most convenient way since you don't have to remember to do it. But it isn't practical or possible for everyone to use something like minify, so sometimes you'll need to do it manually.

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In Web Design, by 456bereastreet, August 23, 2010

Don’t get me wrong: I honestly don’t care that much about whether something like geolocation is technically part of HTML5 or not: that’s a fairly trifling matter. But CSS3? C’mon! In what universe is it in any way acceptable that a web developer wanting to learn about web fonts begins by Googling for HTML5?

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In Web Design, by 456bereastreet, August 20, 2010

According to an HTML Working Group Decision, the longdesc attribute will not be included in the HTML5 specification. Not everybody is happy with that decision, so whether longdesc is still out when HTML5 is finished remains to be seen.

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