They did this with CSS

There I was, happily ranting away about Web Standards again when Ryan Lin pointed out that my page had XHTML errors. Eep! How did that happen? Firstly, I missed a couple of stray ampersands in my ‘Asides’ column. I’m usually quite picky with invalid URLs, but was so excited to hear that Prince William was…

I’m pleased to report that yesterday I learnt how to fix a Flash accessibility ‘bug’. I had a problem with a Flash movie which had various elements such as movie clips, buttons and text input fields on it. When you filled in the first field, and hit the ‘Tab’ button, you’d be taken to the…

Jakob Nielsen has posted a review of the usability of the Bush and Kerry newsletter campaigns. Unfortunately, Bush seems to be winning, though by a slim margin of 1%. As in real life, both sides have some way to go.

A hearty congratulations to the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) for developing what is probably the Singapore Government’s first AAA-rated website. Go on, take a look. It doesn’t look too bad either, contrary to what some might expect. Their site conforms to three international standards. I attended the seminar organised by Design…

Web standards buddies – Do you have any hard evidence that the failure to close HTML tags is detrimental to the wellbeing of a website? I’d hate to have the wool pulled over my company’s eyes just because our vendor says ‘it’s OK, IE will display it anyway’. Our website isn’t XHTML compliant yet, though…

I just submitted my WSSG (Web Standards Singapore) logo. I’ve decided that nothing I’m going to do in my life will ever be perfect, and my work isn’t going to get richer with age, unlike wine, so there’s no point keeping it till the last moment. It’s only when I do things like this, however,…