Web Standards update

Jakob Nielsen on his two-hundredth Alertbox, outlining the milestones in his usability doctrines: In what might be its most striking victory, the Alertbox ushered in the decline of the glamour design agency. Sure, there are still a few glamour agencies left, and a company that wants to waste money on an unworkable website can easily…

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,…

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…

Sometime, somewhere, someone’s going to write about interdisciplinary approaches to solving life’s complex problems if they haven’t already. One good example would be what I experienced today, while deciding on the layout for our new kitchen. Budgetary issues aside, we made modifications and decisions using a mix of common sense, experience and … some old…

I don’t know what happened to the Lean Dean campaign machine, but that is one flashy events calendar. It’s fairly easy to use (this demo lets you edit entries), though it could improve on initial load time – subsequent updates were much faster. Also, visitors aren’t able to select or copy the event descriptions, nor…

There was an interview on Newsradio 93.8FM this evening with a spokesperson from a visually impaired association in Singapore. I didn’t catch most of it, but my ears did prick up when they mentioned online text readers and how there is so much we can do to improve online accessibility for these people. Duh, it’s…