Internet Explorer once again manages to amaze me. Sadly enough not in a positive way.
I am working on a dynamic A to Z listing for a local council page (they are a legal requirement), and thought marking them up as a list of links pointing to named anchors is enough.
It is for Firefox, and old browsers, but Internet Explorer has one big bug. Try to tab through the A to Z navigation via keyboard and press enter. MSIE takes you to the section you have chosen, and the logical next move is to hit tab again to reach the first link in that section – in this case, the link back to the navigation. If you do it though, you’ll find that MSIE takes you back to the navigation!

A workaround is giving the named anchor an href, or, and now comes the really odd bit, nest the link inside an element and give it a width in the CSS.

More information about the bug on Jim Thatcher’s site.

I get a lot of hits from the forum at http://4girls.co.il/newforum/ and I am quite oblivious as to what they are and what they look for :-)

Double stylesheets got published on devarticles. It is an article describing how to use progressive enhancement to feed different styles to different browsers. Enjoy.

Tomorrow I will hold a workshop on accessibility with developers and designer of a local council site. God I wished I could explain accessibility rather than “how to get AAA certified”....

On the plus side: My 1mbit line is active :-)

sigh Now that I made sure no “poker” comments get through any longer, they do it with trackback URLs. Hey, if nobody wants to use your site it is maybe because it is not interesting. Gambling is not illegal here in Europe, only in the land of the free!