The button element was rediscovered by Kevin Hale of Wufoo and Particletree fame and while reading through the post, thinking I gave you feedback during the Wufoo beta about the button element and it took you this long to see its’ advantages. I started reading the comments, one comment from Russell Beattie stopped me in my tracks.
All this talk about POSH (plain old semantic HTML) has got me thinking about how I build web sites. I seem to have been following the principles of POSH for a few years now:
After reading Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) on the microformats wiki, it left me wonder exactly what is a POSH site. I agree with the POSH and will adopt any principles I am not currently using for the next version of this blog, I don’t know if it will make the grade as a POSH site.
The problem is that …
It is that time of the year for well formed sites to show off their proper use of html, semantic markup and good hierarchical structure. For more information see the Annual CSS Naked Day Site.
So for the next thirty six hours or so this site will be without it’s stylesheets. I had to do a little extra work, removing the IE only stylesheet and removing the javascript that inserted the flash images, otherwise you would end up with a couple of 1200px wide flash images on each page. The orange will return on Friday.
I have started work on a redesign of this blog, this post is to clarify my thoughts and elict your opinions on what is good, memorable or just damn ugly about this blog.
A feature of IE I did not know existed till reading the comments on Aaron Gustafson’s Push My Button at Digital Web Magazine was that when a button is submitted in a form, all other browser submit the value you assigned, except IE which submits the innertext.
Unfortunately, I spent a too much time preparing my Accessibility Law in Australia presentation and not enough time preparing this presentation. What should of been 30 minutes plus on techniques to make forms more accessible and usable, end up being 10 minutes or so going through a number of points that should of been expanded…
It is on the WSG site (and Kay’s web standards persona’s blog) so it must be true, I am giving a presentation on accessible forms and talking about accessibility law in Australia.
The aim for each Perth WSG meetings is two presentations, both Web Standards based, one technical and one business orientated. While I am very [...]
Jana asked for tutorial on layering HTML over Flash, so here is how the current footer works, though it will hopefully be replaced real soon.
This will only display correctly on Mac and *nix machines 50% of the time. There is a bug in the flash plugin that randomnly assign which element will be above the other in stacking order, no matter what you do with z-index or source order. So if you scroll up and down or referesh the page, the order may change.
There are also problems with Flashbock plugin for Firefox, overlaying HTML over flash currently makes it impossible to play the flash file. However, a solution may be at hand.
Kara O’Halloran on The Joy and Terror of Implementing Web Standards and Vicki Berry presents excerpts from her sessions from TODCON 8 (Accessible Website Essentials and Lesser-Known XHTML Elements and Attributes). The full details are here.