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• TinyMCE improves the code it generates

  February 12th, 2008

  I was playing around with the current development version of WordPress (2.5 will be released in March) & had a nice surprise when I tried out the WYSIWYG editor. It’s about a year ago that I was last taking a serious look at the code they produced in response to Peter Krantz’s round-up over at [...]

• Screen reader company not helping the cause

  January 11th, 2008

  Jared Smith has raised a good point over at WebAIM in his recent post - JAWS license not developer friendly. Basically the licensing agreement for the trial version of the software (one of the most popular screen readers) specifically prohibits using it for testing purposes. I would have thought that the fewer barriers that web [...]

• Documenting page designs

  December 21st, 2007

  A quick post before the Christmas break.
  I recently came across Pearl Crescent Page Saver and I can see that it will be another useful tool to be used in 2008 when I’m working on template designs. Rather than just producing an image of what is visible on the screen, as happens with normal screenshot programs, [...]

• Browser market share - 2007

  December 4th, 2007

  After warning about the misuse of statistics, I’m likely to find myself hoist by my own petard now, but here goes…
  It’s over a year since Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) was released so I thought it was time to revisit the issue of browser market share, especially after the dramatic take-up of IE7 in the first [...]

• Convergent needs of mobiles and accessibility

  November 20th, 2007

  With all the (technical) media interest in the iPhone I decided it was worth taking a look at the iPod Touch to test out its new web browsing features. Other handheld devices and mobile phones have gone down the route of reducing a web page to fit the restricted environment of the screen, as can [...]