January 7th, 2010 by Rob Larsen
Once again rounding up some of the articles I've read over the past couple of weeks.
All style tags after the first 30 style tags on an HTML page are not applied in Internet Explorer
I wasn't surprised to see this came up as an issue in the Drupal community. During my short time working with Drupal, I was horrified by the number of style sheets/JavaScript files included in the page. I don't think we ever got to 30, but 10-15 was scary enough. Apparently, there's a "performance" mode which clears that up, but I never made it that far…
Inheritance Patterns in YUI 3
I'm really interested in getting to know YUI3 and inheritance patterns in JavaScript are interesting to me in any form, so this article by Stoyan Stefanov was a must read.
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November 30th, 2009 by Rob Larsen
Once thing that's vital to testing the accessibility of a web app or site is running through it without using a mouse. If you can successfully work a site or app without touching the mouse, you've gone a long way towards ensuring that your site is available to a wide range of people and devices.
One thing that's difficult about that process is most of us rely far too much on the mouse when browsing. Which is where these lists of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox, and Internet Explorer come in handy.
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July 29th, 2009 by Rob Larsen
I use Dreamweaver. I have since version 1.0.
I'm a fan.
That said, as you would imagine, I very rarely use the WYSIWYG features. I mostly use the text editor and the site management features (including Subweaver, a handy SVN inetgration.) Occasionally, however, I do open it in WYSIWG mode and very often I'm surprised at how well that editor actually handles things.
Last night I ran into one such surprise.
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