Category Archives: Web

WCAG Samurai Errata

June 11, 2007 – 4:20 AM
Basically, I love it. The recommendations are practical and more in line with normal everyday common sense. It's written in normal everyday English. But I have no idea how realistic it is to expect everyone to adopt these when presented... Read More »
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you won't fool the children of the revolution

May 2, 2007 – 9:50 PM
After receiving a DMCA takedown, Digg does what you'd expect and, uh, takes down. People get mildly pissed. Then Digg gets coated in spooge from seven million kids posting THE CODE, which is apparently the decryption key to HD DVDs... Read More »
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Let me tell you where you screwed up, kids

February 28, 2007 – 10:49 PM
Lo, like the passage of the seasons, that perennial Where-Are-The-Ladies-At? Discussion arises yet again. This time, it's Eric Meyer who drops himself in it most noticably, with a variation of that tired old thing -- 'But it's not my problem,... Read More »
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Open & Closed

November 12, 2006 – 3:07 PM
The Open & Closed Project aims to create a set of useful standards, training and certification programmes for captioning, subtitling, dubbing, and audio description. You can help by giving founder Joe Clark a small donation -- all he needs is... Read More »
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ADA Web appeal knocked back again

September 29, 2004 – 12:22 AM
Over at Ars Technica: In a ruling released today, the US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld (PDF) the decision of a lower court which established that web sites do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Americans with Disabilities... Read More »
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Little-i internet?

August 21, 2004 – 9:58 PM
According to Wired, it's just the little-i internet now. Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the "I" in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net. Why? The simple answer is because... Read More »
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Mac Observer CSS redesign

April 9, 2004 – 5:33 PM
It's gone public! After a journey of Odyssean proportions, the Mac Observer redesign has been announced to the world at large. You can see it in action right now on a live version of the homepage. It's a CSS-based, almost-all-valid... Read More »
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More on the Lockergnome design

March 15, 2004 – 7:55 PM
So it looks like there'll be yet another Lockergnome redesign. This one is clean, looks reasonable, validates, etc etc. Hurray. Which begs the question: what was the point of fscking about like that? Because: We're dev'ing our own CMS that'll... Read More »
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Eat your own dogfood

March 10, 2004 – 9:02 PM
Much kerfuffle ensued when Lockergnome said they were 'taking a mulligan,' going back to a tables-and-old-style design. "We're going to re-deploy a completely sanitized site design very soon," says Pirillo; "At least it'll be better than the ill-fated, completely translucent... Read More »
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What’s happening in Scoble’s pants?

March 10, 2004 – 7:17 PM
Question without notice: What exactly is Microsoft pundit Robert Scoble doing in that banner image -- specifically, what's up with his pants? Seriously, that's a pretty suggestive crop happening there. The grin doesn't help. Just a thought. Perhaps visuals... Read More »
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