IE8 standards uproar and some clever Microsoft marketing

Microsoft recently announced a horrible idea for standards-mode switching in IE8, only to backtrack and become heroes throughout the web development community! Everyone’s celebrating and I’m happy … but why do I have this niggling doubt of dirty political paranoia?!…

The Optimalworks.net website is honoured to receive the Accessites.org Quality Universal Design award.

accessibility, award, standards

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innerHTML: the ultimate alternative solution

Using innerHTML for DOM manipulation does not come without problems. This article proposes a completely new solution that is simple, has the advantages of innerHTML, but uses safe W3C DOM methods. All in 50 lines of JavaScript too!

ajax, dom, download, html, javascript, standards, xml

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Cross-browser scalable text in CSS

How to ensure text resizing is consistent and usable in most browsers using CSS.

css

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Government website accessibility guidelines

The UK Government has issued an initial consultation document on delivering inclusive websites in order to meet European objectives for inclusive e-government. By December 2008, all .gov.uk websites must adhere to W3C guidelines level AA.

accessibility, standards

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HTTP, HTTPS, and shared resources

How to use images, css, scripts and other resources located on another web server from within a secure HTTPS page.

html, ssl

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IE8 standards uproar and some clever Microsoft marketing

Optimalworks wins the Accessites.org award

innerHTML: the ultimate alternative solution

Cross-browser scalable text in CSS

Government website accessibility guidelines

HTTP, HTTPS, and shared resources