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March 9, 2008
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Using the label element for form accessibility

I’ve always been a fan of the <label> element. It’s an incredibly simple way to make a form more accessible. It does two things: It explicitly associates text with a form element, so a screenreader doesn’t have to guess what text goes with what form element. For checkboxes/radio buttons, it gives the user a larger […]

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March 5, 2008
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Big release day on the webbernet

So I guess it’s simply the time of year. Many big releases today… software, APIs, and more! First, the biggest. IE8 has been released in initial beta. The release was also included a general overview of IE8’s new features and fixes. It’s actually quite a lot of information to absorb all at once. I’ve skimmed […]

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January 16, 2008
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what I’ve been up to

Though I doubt it will mean anything to anyone… I threw this diagram together Monday night. It’s my application design for a default NCBI application. I’m pretty excited about it. Not too fancy, but a nice start. I’ve also been thinking about writing a Firefox extension. It’s about time that I play around with it, […]

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December 18, 2007
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Another design tweak

As you might have noticed, I’ve been a bit pre-occupied recently. And likely will be so in the future. So a design for this site has once again been placed on the back burner. I am good for a tweak-ing, however. Looks fine in Firefox 2 for mac/pc. Opera, has a small problem, I think […]

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November 19, 2007
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Review of High Performance Web Sites

When I came across High Performance Web Sites; Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers on Amazon, I was excited. I’ve been actively using the Yslow plugin for Firebug, and was interested in finding out more. At the day job I can’t implement each of the 14 rules myself, however the plugin is useful none-the-less. It’s terrific […]

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October 30, 2007
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I just killed WordPress

Well, that was kinda fun.  I was trying to create a post, and when after I edited a <pre>, something I did killed WordPress within Firefox on my MacBook.  So I went inside and tried it on my frankenmac, and Firefox died there… three times.  Odd.  So I turned on my trusty old PC, and it crashed […]

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October 25, 2007
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Firefox for Mac and displaying small font sizes

So I had a problem a while back where I thought Firefox for Mac was picking up some left-over or un-overridden size styles, while the other browsers were not. It turns out that it wasn’t actually my problem. While all of the other browsers that I tested… for both Windows and Mac display the default […]

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October 10, 2007
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Problem du jour: Firefox fonts

Goal for today: figure out why Firefox for Mac is displaying drastically smaller font-sizes than Firefox for Windows. Why this may be difficult: I don’t have a Mac to use at work.

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October 3, 2007
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RSS newsreaders

I am a big fan of Sage, the RSS newsreader plugin for Firefox.  In my move, I have tried a few other apps that I thought would be a little better at handling the on-again, off-again nature of me checking my favorite feeds. I tried Vienna for mac, as it was free, and it worked […]

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September 4, 2007
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Pushing Browsers

So I have been working on a small piece of navigation at work. Tabs, to be exact. Multiple items, but no more than 5 at a time. Variable length titles (including some rather long). As it is a list of links, of course, I wanted to use an unordered list. It all made perfect semantic […]

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