Today was a great day for Microsoft…or not. The company finally reached a deal with the European Commision in the never ending fight concerning Microsoft attempts to impose IE as a unique browser for Windows and not willing to help the developers build compatible software with MS products. The measures that Microsoft will take are [...]
It’s been a year and a half since I moved on OsX. Coming from the Linux world it wasn’t that hard to get used to the new operating system. At that time I had some issues to make the perfect selection of softwares and tools I need for my work. My expertise is PHP, JS [...]
Styling a form is never an easy thing to do, but adding CSS3 on a HTML5 form is a task that shows a large variety of results when it comes to testing on different browsers. Check the test link. When it comes to CSS3 not much can be done: but adding rounded corners, gradients and [...]
Due the limited number of fonts available for web we need to make use of other techniques to make our design look the way we want. Most of the time we simply cut the image from the psd file and place it in the html/css. But this has impact over the accessibility of the site [...]
What can you answer to your client when you try to explain that your code is W3c, semantic, crossbrowser and…accessible and your client asks you “Good for you you’re coding accessible websites, but do you actually know any blind user?” Meaning, why should someone care about how you code a site as long as table-based [...]
Ok, we all know now Google Frame. What is it ? It’s a plugin for IE that creates a frame inside and uses Webkit as renderer & javascript engine. All great because it allows you (the IE user) to see all the fancy new stuff like canvas, HTML5, SVG( maybe?). But why? I mean why [...]
I know almost every blogger wrote about this subject (lately all complaining about IE6 still being used by common users) – but this time I think we should take all this to the next level and start doing something about it. I admit I don’t usually have contact with the final clients or have access [...]
After writing an accessible form in XHTML and validating it with a PHP server side script & after that with a Mootools client-side script, I write today about a third way of approaching the subject – using future-to-come HTML5 (by saying that, I really hope to be able to use it waaaay before 2011). The [...]
Validate forms client side with MooTools.
We made an usability case study for Kroppr.