Category: Geek
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Clearing floats and printing with Firefox.
Half of my resume was missing. It was there on the screen, but in print preview and on the printed page reams of experience disappeared. Not ideal. I discovered that when you use the formatting context to clear floats, firefox treats each printed page as a “box†with the overflow hidden. Elements with overflow: hidden…
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Victor Tsaran presents screen readers
Most companies either don’t have the resources or aren’t willing to invest in assistive technologies so that they can actively test their web products, so their employees are forced to simply follow the rules (WAI) as best they can and hope that their final product is at least somewhat accessible. Victor Tsaran’s video introduction to…
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Why are women not on the A-list?
I’m not a proponent of lowering skill level for diversities sake, but is it possible that there are CSS Goddesses on the A-list in terms of technical skill, speaking ability, and vision who simply aren’t on the radar of the web development community?
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Pourquoi des sites au design accessible ?
Un site accessibles et un site inaccessibles peuvent paraître exactement les mêmes pour un utilisateur qui n’est pas handicapé. Il peut alors être difficile de comprendre les raisons de tout ce remue-ménage. Pourquoi est-il aussi important de tenir compte de cette accessibilité lorsqu’on conçoit et lorsqu’on met en forme des pages Internet ?
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L’accessibilité pour les rédacteurs : les manuels de logiciels
L’une des améliorations les plus importantes pouvant être réalisée pour l’accessibilité d’un site est une tâche qui échappera souvent aux rédacteurs. Ajouter du texte pour décrire des images permet aux non-voyants et aux déficients visuels d’accéder au contenu de votre page, mais écrire n’est pas forcément quelque chose d’inné. Les conseils énoncés ici vous aideront…
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YUI announces free hosting at their birthday party
If your visitors have visited Yahoo! or another YUI using site today there is a chance the library will be in their cache since they are now offering free hosting of the library on their servers. This just rocks. It means that normal people get to take advantage of the lightning fast Yahoo servers and…
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Search Engine Optimisation
I recently read an article series by Jennifer Laycock at the Search Engine Guide detailing her 30-day effort to start a business with no capital. She created a CafePress t-shirt shop based around supporting breastfeeding and milk banks (which I had never heard of before reading the article). She talked about finding a niche but…
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Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site
Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site Mint, by Shawn Inman, the writer of ShortStat was released a few minutes ago. I can’t wait to take if for a spin, but for the moment the demo version is still requiring a login and password. Waiting to hear back from them.
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A List Apart
A List Apart has launched a new site design. They had a couple seconds of style-less content, and then boom, the new site was born. At first glance it is a 1000px wide, four column design based on ruby on rails. Take a look. New design. New structure. New server. New publishing system powered by…
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Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0
bobbyvandersluis.com | Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0 A great article which explains a useful way to include flash content in your website without compromising standards.