Last fall it was Chrome. Now it’s Safari 4 Beta. Soon it will be Firefox 3.1 and IE 8. Each browser has its harsh critics and fervent supporters. But in the end, does the browser really matter? The answer to this question depends on who you speak to. Developers will say yes, because browsers m...

When in Indonesia Bruce Lawson, co-lead of the Accessibility Task Force, got the opportunity to interview Widianto Nugroho from Institut Teknologi Bandung. What follows is the transcript of their chat as well as links to useful resources for anyone interested in web standards in Indonesia. Take it a...

Microsoft seems to be hell bent on making the standards secondary in the name of compatibility. Not a while back, Microsoft had agreed to use the standards mode by default for IE8 after many had opposed the degradation. If enough users vote a site into IE7 compatibility mode, it will be displayed us...

It’s been too long since I joined the fun, if amazingly heated, debates over the direction that Web standards are moving in. Recently, given the “free” time to do so, I decided to dive head first into what is (sadly) an almost 14 year old debate. The result is this blog post, which...

I’m so excited and pleased to announce after many years in the making that the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is now a full blown official Web Standard. WCAG 2.0 guides developers in how to develop their Web sites so that they’re accessible to the most people...

Stumbled across this while reading about browsers at molly.com. I am not completely sure if it will appeal as much to the non-web designer/developer crowd as it did to me. By Poetic Prophet - SEO Rapper (aka Chuck Lewis) Lyrics: Design Coding Your site design is the first thing people see it should ...

Robert Nyman points out the benefits of avoiding inline CSS and JS in your HTML files. If there’s one thing that shits me no end it’s getting messy templates because team members don’t get the whole concept or value of maintaining seperation of content from presentation and behavio...

Somewhere down the line we forgot what it is all about; the user and the user experience. Rouge irresponsible industry leaders are telling us it is time to move on from Internet Explorer 6, IE6....

Here’s a starter list of some resources to help transition to WCAG 2 from the world of WCAG 1, now the new standard goes to proposed recommendation status. This is just a starter list; please add other resources that you recommend in the comments. It would be great to have some for clients as ...

CSS 2.1 is more like a Swiss Army knife than a fully stocked toolbox. We can accomplish a lot, but we have to get creative with the standard attachments. Floats, relative positioning, the box model - each tool must performs double or triple duty because they're the only ones we've got. When we do di...