It is quite interesting to see that several products right now try to crowdsource accessibility. IBM released their social accessibility project and another project caused quite a stir in the accessibility world: WebVisum.com. The latter is a Firefox3 extension that ties in with Screen Readers to allow users to enhance pages they have problems with […]

Nate Skulic just emailed me about CSSPP, a CSS preprocessor inspired by my CSS wishlist and CSS constants article. Nate’s done a great job writing a CSS preprocessor that could be handled by mod_rewrite and allows for: constants in CSS (define a colour or setting and call it by name) variables in CSS (define a […]

It is scary how some obviously bad practices refuse to go away and developers jump through hoops to defend them and make them work rather than using simpler alternatives. My pet peeve is the “chess rules” select box (you touched it, it needs to move): Yahoo B3TA Google Yahoo B3TA Google This is the most […]

The last few months Chris Mills from Opera was busy gathering a lot of great web development experts around him (with a lot of pimping by yours truly) to assemble probably the most thorough and up-to-date web standards curriculum on the web: The Opera Web Standard Curriculum Several dozen articles, all licensed with Creative Commons […]

Two weeks ago I went to East London to give a “brown bag” presentation at the office of the Guardian. In a very crowded room around 30 developers sat and listened to me raving about best practices in web development and what the YUI already solved for you. There is a very nice write-up on […]