Archive for the 'Browsers' Category

CSS tables verses layout tables

Screen shot of 4 boxes, almost symmetrical but with a gap due to a few extra words in one box. It’s been something that designers have wanted better control of ever since CSS started to be considered the best way to layout HTML pages: table style grids. A quick review of the options shows there could be a few drawbacks of the method.

Conditional comments in CSS

With the advent of Internet Explorer 7, there is now little choice but to create separate style sheets for different browsers, at least for a moderately complex visual design or layout. This post explores the need for change, and where this approach could go.

Subscription accessibility

At work a client received an email from someone asking why their site wasn’t “speech enabled”. This person said they were blind, and found the talking-browser product helpful, and why wasn’t the site speech-enabled. Should it be?

Don’t use sp*nsors

Screen shot of the UKWA site highlighting certain links missing. Some of the things you have to deal with in terms of browser/system compatibility are just getting stranger and stranger. It’s not just code, you have to be careful what words you use. Find out which famous anti-virus product invisibly removes web content.