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24 Jan 2011

Content out: a new adventure in web design

There was one clear theme that ran through many of the talks at last week’s New Adventures in Web Design conference in Nottingham – that the future of web design lies in ‘Content out’: the idea that everything starts with the content, and it dictates how you approach every aspect of the design, rather than creating a design into which the content gets poured later. Amen, I say. But there’s just one problem. Most of us only get the damned stuff at the last minute. Continue reading »

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11 Jun 2010

Browser wars: it’s all in the name

I’ve heard it said that the losers from Microsoft having to provide a choice of browsers on new installations of Windows 7 in Europe will most likely be Microsoft themselves. I’m not convinced. I think there’s a basic reason why Microsoft’s browser will continue to have significant market share – it’s browser’s name. Continue reading »

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31 Jul 2009

Accessible Twitter: how it should have been done to start with

One day the next big thing on the web that has everyone all worked up will be accessible and built to web standards from day one. Until that day, we have people like Dennis Lembree (the man behind Web Axe [external link]) to thank for making what many take for granted freely available to an even wider audience. With the help of some friends [external link], and the Twitter API, Dennis has created an accessible version of Twitter called, unsurprisingly, Accessible Twitter [external link]. Continue reading »

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28 Jul 2009

BBC Glow

When Alan Partridge asks Tony Hayers what he thinks of regional detective dramas Shoestring, Taggart, Spender, Bergerac and Morse, and Tony Hayers says “There’s too many of them”, Alan replies “That’s one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is, ‘People like them, let’s make some more of them’”. The BBC has a similar attitude when it comes to javascript libraries, it seems. A few weeks ago they released Glow [external link] under the Apache license, giving us all a chance to spread some of the magic dust that goes into the BBC site over our own creations. But far from being another framework for wow-effects, Glow has the edge in two important areas: cross-browser support and accessibility. Continue reading »

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09 Apr 2009

Naked

No, not me you’ll be disappointed glad to hear, but this blog – it’s the fourth CSS Naked Day [external link] today, the annual event from the Gok Wan of web standards, Dustin Diaz [external link]. I’m de-robing this blog for the first time to show my support, and to demonstrate that while far from pretty, the site should still at least be usable.

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