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Olav Bjørkøy has cre­ated Blue­print a CSS frame­work which has received a lot of atten­tion is the blog­sphere in the past couple of days…

Writ­ing my pre­vi­ous post on the but­ton ele­ment and mobile browsers got me think­ing about HTML5 and how it will work with mobile web browsers.

I know all the major browser vendors (Microsoft, Moz­illa, Opera and Apple) are onboard with HTML5, and they are also the major mobile browsers vendors (well Opera, Microsoft and Apple via its’ web­kit being used by Nokia are), but will HTML5 be they imple­men­ted for mobile web browsers and how?

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.

aka things I learnt this week part 1

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 […]