Category Archives: Web Standards

Preaching Outside the Choir

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Kevin Hall

Preaching to the choir is easy, they are already on your side and ready to sing your praises. Preaching to people who disagree with you is much harder. Sometimes you need to take a different approach than the one that … Continue reading →

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Accessible Data Tables

Posted on July 7, 2005 by Kevin Hall

(via Jonathan Snook) Roger Hudson has posted a nice primer on using tables in HTML to display data. We quotes the W3C specifications and walks through some clear examples on how to properly use tables in HTML. It’s good to … Continue reading →

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Credit Due

Posted on June 4, 2005 by Kevin Hall

Back in April I wrote about “Lock-In” and mentioned Microsoft as a company that locks customers in using proprietary data formats. Well, sure enough they go ahead and announce a major change in the data formats for the next generation … Continue reading →

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Missing the Point: Web Applications

Posted on May 2, 2005 by Kevin Hall

I recently went to try online banking with National City only to come face to face with the following error message: Alert – browser does not meet requirements Your browser does not meet minimum security requirements for Online Banking. If … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer 7 Update

Posted on April 25, 2005 by Kevin Hall

Good news out of Redmond. Chris Wilson posted some new information on the IE Blog. Looks like they will be adding support for alpha transparency with PNG images. This will allow designers to layer images that are partially transparent in … Continue reading →

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Using Ajax Wisely

Posted on March 22, 2005 by Kevin Hall

Ajax is a set of technologies that is used to rewrite part of a web page without a complete page refresh. Jesse James Garret coined the term to describe a set of technologies currently coming into their own. This happens … Continue reading →

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Spread Firefox

Posted on September 24, 2004 by Kevin Hall

You may notice a few new buttons have appeared on this site. They link to the site Spread Firefox. Firefox is quickly pushing itself to the front of the pack among web browsers and it is just now reaching version … Continue reading →

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