Nowadays I seldom complain to web site owners about browser (or rather, standards) compability issues, mainly because the standard answer seemed to be “Sorry, but we can’t support ever browser out there.”. So when I contacted SOS Barnebyer about a web form that had no submit button when viewed in Firefox on Ubuntu 8.04 a [...]
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SOS Barnebyer: A Hint of Fresh Air (even on the Web)
Posted by Trond on February 2, 2009
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/uncategorized/2009/sos-barnebyer-a-hint-of-fresh-air-even-on-the-web/
A Microsoftish Perspective on Standards
From the MSDNTechNet Live program for Stavanger, September 4 (translation and emphasis by me): Internet Explorer 8 for Developers Internet Explorer 8 will be released soon. It is then nice to know what kind of considerations one have to take when developing standard oriented web applications… There are standards for that? Bookmark on Delicious Recommend [...]
Posted by Trond on September 9, 2008
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2008/a-microsoftish-perspective-on-standards/
Web Developers Don’t Know HTML
In a recent article, IAllenkelhet.no (Norwegian) claims that a survey conducted last year revealed that while 90% of us expect web developers to have expert knowledge about HTML, a mere 35% of the developers actually do. Even fewer know much about WAI or WCAG. Unfortunately, this is probably very close to the truth. I believe [...]
Posted by Trond on April 30, 2008
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2008/web-developers-dont-know-html/
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
The first Internet Explorer 8 beta version was released yesterday. As far as the Acid3 test goes, it made it all the way to 10/100 before it crashed. Restarted, opened up the previous page (Acid3 test) and crashed. Restarted, opened up the previous page (Acid3 test) and crashed. Restarted, … Good start Well, at least [...]
Posted by Trond on March 6, 2008
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2008/internet-explorer-8-beta-1/
Acid3 Browser Test
The Acid 3 test went public yesterday. As far as I know, IE6 wont make it to 100. On a related note, the IE team have been listening to the critics and are changing the default behavior of IE8 to “actual standards mode”. Good news. Kudos to the IE team for caring. Bookmark on Delicious [...]
Posted by Trond on March 4, 2008
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2008/acid3-browser-test/
Why validate HTML?
In a recent blog posting – Er validering verdiløst? – Chrisitian Johansen argues that it is important to create valid HTML and that valid HTML is a good indication of high quality code. I agree that although valid HTML in itself does not guarantee a good product, it is important to write valid HTML. Both [...]
Posted by Trond on November 19, 2007
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2007/why-validate-html/
Semantic HTML for Usable Web Sites
Although the post title might seem a little ironic in that there is not much semantics to HTML or XHTML, I do feel like writing a little piece about how to correctly use (X)HTML. Hopefully, it might help you understand that even valid (X)HTML can be “incorrect” (X)HTML.
Posted by Trond on April 9, 2007
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/web-development/2007/semantic-html/