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There are plenty of css bugs one can write about. Some are worth tracking because they are annoying and have a huge impact our every day work, others are interesting because they haven't received too much attention yet. But most interesting are the
To conclude the series, in short: WCAG 2.0 is here, it’s ready and now get on and use it. Here is my summary
I've had quite a good response to these Question and Answer style articles. I got some nice traffic from Nettuts on their "Best of May" list. So I've decided to write part two of this series.
There are 21 triple-A success criteria for WCAG 2.0. The WCAG 2.0 document itself specifies that AAA conformance should not be mandated for entire sites as: ...it is not possible to satisfy all Level AAA Success Criteria for some content.
ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is steadily gaining more support by all major browsers, now that Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari are all on board. Our aim is to demonstrate how simple adding ARIA can be. In this article, I will be p
Part 3 of the look at WCAG 2.0 is going to look at the handful of criteria which make up Level AA. Here then, are the lucky 13.
I’m reviewing it on the basis of conformance levels, as I’m not entirely convinced that anyone with the sufficient authority to mandate conformance against WCAG 2.0 will understand how the whole ‘accessibility’ thing works; I think they’ll just pick
If you’ve already read what I’ve had to say about the earlier versions of WCAG 2.0 - from my initial dislike of the 2006 version, through to my acknowledgement that the 2007 version had improved immeasurably, then there’s going to be a certain amoun
Noticing your pages are loading slowly or just don't like using extra cpu cycles when you don't have to? PHP makes caching very easy with their variety of Output Control Functions. In this article I'll go over complete page caching which is the easi
I was making this WPF based application on weekends and wanted it to have a gel like look. I did not want to create a new control instead I wanted to make sure that I used WPF styles to change the look of the tab. I decided to share this experience
In this short article I will demonstrate how you can set-up a user for remote access to your MySQL server. This will allow you to use the array of awesome GUI tools offered by MySQL AB to administer your remote MySQL databases.
iUI takes HTML that follows a simple set of conventions and does all the heavy lifting to enable you to easily build a version of your site that is tailored for the iPhone experience. I first started using iUI before ASP.NET MVC was publicly introdu
SQL injection can occur, as demonstrated above, when an application uses input to construct dynamic SQL statements or when it uses stored procedures to connect to the database. Conventional security measures, such as the use of SSL and IPSec, do not
As we all know that our .NET code (C#, VB.NET etc) are converted into MSIL instructions which in turn are put into the assemblies. MSIL is a high level language, not as low as machine instructions, so it needs to converted into machine specific bina
In less then 14 days both Opera and Mozilla released the latest and greatest version of their browsers, Firefox 3.0 and Opera 9.5. So with regards to improved CSS support, what can we as developers look forward to once the user community upgrades?
We see valid code popping up all over the place. And that’s great! Web standards should be followed by everyone. But, is it possible to make your code pass W3C’s validator without actually meeting the standards?
If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qua
In this follow up to the very popular first part of the Gmail Client Side Architecture series we will be looking at how Google handles the file upload process during mail composition in GMail.
What an exiting day for the web and web developers everywhere. The latest version of the Opera browser Opera 9.5 has been released and as of 9:00 AM GMT today Opera 9.5 available for download.
So why is it a good day for web developers? Well, loo
When you think of the keyword this you probably assume it refers to the current instance of the class. This is true for most object oriented languages like C# and Java. But what about JavaScript?
Although Panic didn't really invent the effect, the sliding panels on the Coda is great implementation of this effect. This article will pick apart the pieces required to create the effect, and how to better it.
How do you build up a reputation in an industry that has no real standard—where similar products are being produced by such a diverse group of people with diverse skill sets? In this article, I'm going to list and discuss five areas that require ser
If you like cheat sheets and find them useful then you have to do yourself a favor and check out DZone’s Refcards. DZone Refcards are complete and concise reference cards written by experts on the specific topic that the Refcard covers.
Typical conversations about Web performance tend to revolve around client/server latency, database performance, and the time it takes a server to render and send HTML to the client. Those processes, however, generally account for only a fraction of
With this article, my goal is to show you how easy it is to implement basic element selection and then add some nice dynamic retrieval of content through AJAX by using DOMAssistant.