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Five CSS tricks that repeatedly saved my arse, why need more?

Filed under CSS, Markup on January 24th, 2007 | Comments Off

Chris Heilmann gives us ‘five CSS tricks that repeatedly saved his arse‘. Good tricks they are.

They include: Reseting white space or cross-browser normalization, Making the absolute relative, Containing the float and The off-left technique.

Putting 2.7 billion in context: Mobile phone users

Filed under Mobile, Noted life on January 22nd, 2007 | Comments Off

A completely fascinating article by Tomi T Ahonen, which is a must read for most. The article compares mobile technology with that of the car, the phone (land-line), the TV and other life / culture changing technology.

Some of his findings are startling but on reflection, not surprising.

More phones sold last year than the total installed base of personal computers in use. Out of the 950 phones sold last year, two in three had built-in cameras, 30% had MP3 players. Four out of five had colour screens. All 950 million could access the web (at least via WAP), and all 950 million could send and receive SMS text messages. Over two in three were high speed; while one in five phones sold last year was a 3G phone.

Read Putting 2.7 billion in context: Mobile phone users.

Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers

Filed under Accessibility, Markup on January 22nd, 2007 | Comments Off

Two articles by Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner on ajax accessibility. Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers and Improving Ajax applications for JAWS users.

The elusive quest for simple CMS

Filed under Internet, UI / Usability on January 20th, 2007 | Comments Off

Predictions for 2007 by the CMS Watch Analyst Team.

What does this year hold for content technologies? On the whole, we expect to see more incremental changes, rather than epochal shifts.

Despite all the industry mergers, new product versions, and ceaseless march of acronyms, the content technology industry does not in fact move very fast.

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