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Today I've been working on electronic signage, to display meeting details on small screen outside of meeting rooms. The details themselves come from the booking system sold by my employers and the data is sucked out from the back end database by a fairl… more »

An interesting article from David Airey, and I'm always a sucker for this sort of thing :roll: I'm sure I've made far more than just seven mistakes, but I'll stick to his ones: Mistake #1 - not using a self-hosted blog - never been a problem for me,… more »

Apple have released an updated version of the Safari for Windows beta, fixing three security holes announced within hours of the launch earlier this week. Apparently the Apple Software Update service will do everything automatically, but I downloaded… more »

The Safari 3 Public Beta has launched and now there's a Windows version! Of course I immediately downloaded it but I found it something of a disappointment - when I ran it there was no text getting displayed anywhere at all (the title was blank, the men… more »

I spent today as a guest of Google, and I can highly recommend the experience - if nothing else it's worth it for the free lunch :) I'll do a more 'complete' post with reviews of all the talks I attended at the weekend, but for now I'll present some hig… more »

I was saddened to hear today that Fred Fish died at home last week. I'd never met him, but his 'Fish Disks' were a big part of my Amiga infatuation, and my introduction to shareware and open source in general. The internet is very convenient, but getti… more »

Discovered this nice pair of posts (here's the follow up) via a question on LinkedIn. Since I'm four months off my fourth anniversary I felt like this is an opportune moment for some self assessment. I thought I'd have a look at each of his 18 lessons in… more »

The Prime Minister (or at least, his staff) has responded to the accessibility petition I mentioned a few posts ago. It sounds a bit like empty rhetoric: The Government is committed to ensuring that all government websites are accessible and easy to us… more »

In a follow on from his earlier post (5 HTML elements you probably never use), Matthew Inman at SEOmoz has posted '15 CSS Properties You Probably Never Use'. Possibly not as practically useful as the earlier post, but an opportunity to broaden your CSS… more »

The most complete technical description I've read so far about why 'left: -9999px' is usually better for screen readers than 'display: none' in IE. It's always better to understand why you're doing what you're doing... more »

Some nice examples of what can be done with those HTML elements you never use. The main thing I wasn't aware of was the cite attribute on the blockquote tag, I'll be updating some of my pages with that in the near future. more »