Confidence Game
John Gruber's interesting take on the Microsoft vs. Apple rivalry.
Business | Permalink
This is the monthly archive for May 2006.
28 May 2006
John Gruber's interesting take on the Microsoft vs. Apple rivalry.
Business | Permalink
26 May 2006
Brendan Eich's presentation on JavaScript 2.0, which I had the good fortune of attending in Amsterdam.
Core | Permalink
Joe Clark explains why the upcoming WCAG 2.0 specification is wrong.
Accessibility, Standards/W3C | Permalink
25 May 2006
'We explain the fundamental issues; how to inform users of assistive technology that a change has taken place, and how they can interact with the content. To illustrate our findings, we summarise the behaviour of popular screen readers.'
Accessibility, Data Retrieval, Screen readers | Permalink
13 May 2006
Liorean discusses and criticises the new W3C Selector API.
JavaScript | Permalink
9 May 2006
An interesting idea: just work four days a week, and the amount of work you 'need' to do will diminish.
I'm all in favour, but not right now yet
Society | Permalink
Again a frameworks article. Frameworks *can* suck, is the message.
Libraries | Permalink
Eric complains: 'I just don’t get all these new-fangled programming frameworks. Is something wrong with me?' No, there's something wrong with the frameworks. Several commenters note that the same problem exists in JavaScript. What goes around comes around. Maybe the latest batch of JS libraries have already passed their zenith.
Libraries | Permalink
How to launch a standalone IE 7 so that your IE 6 install remains operational.
IE | Permalink
PDF! Interesting paper on the fluctuations of the browser market during the Browser Wars (1996-1999). The authors' conclusions about the present-day browser market are a bit over the top, but they treat the historical material solidly.
Browsers, History | Permalink
Surprisingly, Joe's conclusion is 'Everybody could do everything. It just wasn’t all that convenient.'
Accessibility, Data Retrieval, Screen readers, Tests | Permalink
8 May 2006
Emil Stenström asks: What is Microsoft's official advice to web developers who need to test in both IE6 and IE7? Good question.
IE | Permalink
4 May 2006
James Edwards discusses screen reader JavaScript support. Chaotic.
Accessibility, Events, Screen readers, Tests | Permalink
See the April 2006 archive.
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