Web Standards update

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…

Someone from usability company Etre wrote in to inform me they that conducted a study on many corporate websites to see how the new Internet Explorer 7 displayed them. Turns out that many of these websites are busted. I haven’t done enough research myself to determine if IE7’s new rendering engine really adopts standards as…

Firefox revived Yesterday I forwarded this BBC News article about how Mozilla browsers have taken 7% of the browser market share at Internet Explorer’s expense, to my boss and team-mates. Happily, a team-mate backed me up and suggested we needed these browsers in the course of our work. Even better, my boss said he had…

A couple of people signed up recently and I was prompted to check out how many people in Singapore were interested in a Web Standards meetup. I was impressed. Shall we? [Another question – where exactly can we meet up? Somewhere we can hang out and hopefully with free wireless…]

I generally agree with much of what web usability guru Jakob Nielsen says, but get the impression he’s pretty stubborn about applying his principles to his own website. Wouldn’t it be great if he could demonstrate how usable websites can still be beautiful? And I didn’t get the impression he was very forthcoming about suggestions,…

Want tabbed browsing on *ugh* Internet Explorer? You can have it, as advertised on Microsoft’s Windows website. It even comes with a popup blocker *ooh!* and a search bar *wow*. However, it costs US$29.95. And the reviewers of this software don’t seem to realise there are better products out there, going for free. Get real….