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Accessibility with Domino web sites
If you’ve checked the source-code lately you’ll see that it is now actually properly HTML compliant and accessible. I found this great article at Ferdy Christant’s excellent site. It explains a simple method for creating pages that allow you to control the HTML instead of Domino – so that there’s a full doc-type, no deprecated…
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IBM and the Linux desktop
Found at the Web Standards Project, the tale of the well intentioned IBM Linux desktop challenge.
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Changes
If you’re nerdy enough to check the source code of this site you will have noticed some changes in the last few days. This warrants proper explanation, and I’ll provide that over the next few days. In the meantime, if you notice any ‘funny stuff’ on the site, let me know .
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Amazon job notice, circa 1994
Found via kottke, a post from Jeff Bezos looking for developers for Amazon …!!
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World’s land mass unfolded on a map
Found this wicked map of the land mass of the planet laid out without the oceans.
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blockquote and cite
Noticed a comment from Henrick on 456bereastreet.com about using the “cite” attribute in the blockquote element. Sounds like a good idea to me. Don’t think I’d ever heard of it before – so I guess I should really have a look through the html element list and brush up on my attributes….
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New Zealand – archipelago or continent?
While trying to remember how the hell to spell archipelago I came across an article that states: though one usually thinks of New Zealand as an island or archipelago, it is one of the world’s smallest continents, defined biogeographically as a land mass within which birds and mammals can achieve completed speciation A quick Google…
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The best and worst of 04
My people/things of 2004: Ben Goodger, lead developer of Firefox Firefox, the browser Space Ship One Wigan, Maida Vale’s celebrity cat Wireless Broadband at home Best film of the year? Well, maybe not the best but I really liked it: Elephant, by Gus Van Sant. Quote of the year: “If they don’t have the guts,…