Isofarro

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Easy Fixes to Common Accessibility Problems(yaccessibilityblog.com)
2 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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Building the BBC Homepage beta - an under the bonnet technical view(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Not sure whether pointing out the slowness of other languages is a considered argument to make here. Yes, there are other ways of blocking apart from IO. IO tends to be the main culprit, our web apps are mostly waiting for something. A data
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Quick tip: testing web content for screen readers without a screen reader(iheni.com)
2 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"(Kind of related: Anyone interested in a URI-dnsbl of squatted domain names?)" I'm curious how you think that it's related. A blacklist directly impacts the startup purchasing the domain from purchasing it because of the murky ground invol
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"A number of times now I've abandoned ideas after being unable to find a domain name as they're all taken by squatters" Seriously? You've given up on an idea because you couldn't find a domain name? Your idea is contingent on a domain? * al
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by Isofarro 15y ago
In hind-sight everything is obvious. Everything is easy if you already know it. You already know the perfect domain for your uses that's already available - more power to you. The interesting aspect of this service is as a set of triggers.
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"CSS on/Images off is an unlikely scenario, but it is a possible scenario (also consider the possibility of images not loading for any reason). If I were in a user stuck in that scenario, I'd say: I can't access core parts of this website.
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"Negative text-indent can cause accessibility problems. Scenario "CSS on-images off" will see no content at all." What disability is overcome by leaving CSS on and turning images off?
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The cost of monoculture(blog.mozilla.com)
3 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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Site Owners Ignore Requests to ‘Fix The Web’(headstar.com)
2 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 15y ago
I'm seeing the right hand adverts chopped off on the right hand side. Both of them. That's not good business if you are relying on advertising revenue to support the financial costs of running a site. That's one of the drawbacks of this res
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Jerry Yang is trying to buy Yahoo(businessinsider.com)
5 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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CSS needs a bit of basic love(mattwilcox.net)
1 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 15y ago
1.) A German court lifted an injunction in the EU nations, except Germany itself 2.) Apple misled the courts by offering altered images of Samsung's Galaxy Tab. In the filed documents, the pictures of both the iPad and Galaxy Tab appear to
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by Isofarro 15y ago
1.) Monthly web hosting invoice unpaid 2.) Customer informed and appropriate action taken for unpaid accounts (suspend account for non-payment) 3.) Customer's friend makes a public complaint on Twitter 4.) Web host responds badly (but perha
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by Isofarro 15y ago
The current reference Android phone isn't an HTC. It's a Samsung.
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Getting rusty – we need new best practices for a different development world(wait-till-i.com)
12 points by Isofarro 15y ago|3 comments
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"Instead we get a unsightly pastiche of uneven incrementalism lacking any kind of holistic cohesiveness or suggestive of a bold, vivid, nuanced vision that inspires users." Uh, you lost me at that point. Try an A/B test by varying "holistic
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"If someone doesn't have JavaScript, he's either extremely paranoid (and belongs to a really minor minority) or using hopelessly outdated browser (a minority that most likely wouldn't be a good customer anyway)." With the trend towards mobi
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Sure you're doing less on the server, but seriously, is it going to be significant enough to warrant it? Seriously, if the rendering component of your site is heavy, you're likely to be doing something wrong, or the data you are dealing wit
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by Isofarro 15y ago
"Begg, Dornbusch and Fisher" for a one-volume treatise on Economics. That was my Economics 101 book last century, but constantly updated and revised the recent editions are still topical and clearly explained Dornbusch and Fisher also publi
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by Isofarro 15y ago
My position is pro-consumer and pro-web. Be careful about defining your target market as those people not using Internet Explorer 6. What is important is what browser they are using at the point they want to convert into being a customer. T
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by Isofarro 15y ago
I notice Peroni covers the ground between the recruiter and the employer (and for that, thank you); but is very quiet about what's going on between the recruiter and the target. I'm disappointed by this, because it affects actual developers
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Use mod_rewrite’s proxy flag with caution(statichtml.com)
2 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments
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by Isofarro 15y ago
Depends on what you consider the market to be. Domain names: Public Internet Registry (pir.org manages .org), Nominet (in that ICANN recognises Nominet as the owner of .uk - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/03/nominet_joins_icann/ - g
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Firefox doesn’t hoist function declarations in blocks(statichtml.com)
24 points by Isofarro 15y ago|9 comments
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by Isofarro 15y ago
I'd have thought identifying the target audience and the actual use-cases the site needs to meet as being the #1 requirement. Everything else derives from this, and is built to support it.
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Accessibility of Google+: Will Blind Users Be +1ing?(noeyesneeded.com)
3 points by Isofarro 15y ago|1 comments
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As Shuttle Era Ends, Dreams of Space Linger(nytimes.com)
2 points by Isofarro 15y ago|0 comments

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