Entries Tagged as ‘Web Standards, Accessibility and Best Practice’

January 18, 2008

Free Fridays #9 PNG Optimizer

This week’s recommendation is very small and compact just like the software it describes. It’s a graphics optimiser and converter for windows called PNGOptimizer and as its name suggests one of it’s main functions is to optimise PNG graphics.
PNG is a very high quality format for graphics which has become more common on the web [...]

January 8, 2008

Windows 98 Still Hanging In There 10 Year Laters

I was in the UK over the Christmas period visiting family and had my annual reminder of what technology is like in the real world. Just before Christmas there had been a lot of buzz in the web community about IE8 passing the ACID2 test and the forthcoming release of Firefox 3. It’s easy to [...]

January 3, 2008

Are You Using An Open Document Format?

The vast majority of people have probably never heard of open document formats. That’s not a bad thing. Generally, people should concentrate on what they create, not how they create. But most of us should be concerned about who can access what we create. Whether it’s for commercial reasons or for promoting our ideas, we [...]

December 20, 2007

A Week Is A Long Time In Browser Wars

For those of use that watch browsers, and that should be every web developer and designer, it’s been quite a week.
The Microsoft IE team today announced that their work in progress, IE8, passed the ACID2 test last week. Not only that, it’ll be out in Beta in the first half of 2008.
So let’s have [...]

December 15, 2007

Opera Takes Microsoft To Court

Browser maker Opera, filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft on Wednesday. The complaint concerns the unbundling of Internet Explorer from the Windows operating system and forcing Microsoft to make their browsers standards-compliant.
“Opera requests the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft’s abusive actions. First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft [...]

April 4, 2007

April 5th is Naked Day

[UPDATE: Naked day is over and the site is back to normal, but I thought I'd leave this article here anyway.]
This Thursday we’re joining thousands of others web designers and stripping our site back to the basics and exposing our soft under belly! What’s it all about I hear you ask? Isn’t web design [...]