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Roger Johansson is a web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability.

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Helping your client maintain markup quality

Posted Friday October 12, 2007, 2:52 am, Over one day old

If you spend enough time working on it (or are one of the few lucky ones to use a CMS + WYSIWYG editor combo that enforces it) you may be able to ensure that the HTML on the site stays valid. Well, one idea is to make any errors or suspicious markup obvious to the person working on the document.

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Web Standards Creativity (Book review)

Posted Tuesday September 18, 2007, 2:51 am, Over one day old

Some people tend to think that using Web Standards will somehow stifle their creativity. Effective print techniques applied to CSS design is made up of two chapters that take some techniques that work well in the print world and adapt them to the Web.

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Virtual hosts, PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Posted Monday November 12, 2007, 2:53 am, Over one day old

The above were serious enough that after spending many hours trying and failing to get my local web development stuff up and running again, I told myself to get over it and switch back to Tiger. If there is data that you cannot afford to lose on the disk, make sure you have a reliable backup.

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DOM Assistant 2.0 released

Posted Wednesday September 26, 2007, 2:52 am, Over one day old

Since the original release, Robert has listened to feedback from people using DOM Assistant and added some features to the library. The new features are in the title of the announcement: chainability, an Ajax module, an easier-to-use DOMReady function, and XPath support.

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CSS diagnostics with XRAY and MRI

Posted Tuesday October 30, 2007, 3:53 am, Over one day old

Several tools that help troubleshooting CSS are available. XRAY lets you inspect the properties of any element on the page by opening a floating palette that displays the element type, id, class, position, size, border, margin, and padding of any element you click on.

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Web project manager wanted at NetRelations

Posted Saturday September 29, 2007, 2:52 am, Over one day old

At NetRelations, we're currently looking for a project manager who can not only handle client contacts and sales, but also deal with the day-to-day managing of who does what in our many parallel projects. We would very much prefer applicants with solid experience of managing website projects.

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Autopopulating text input fields with JavaScript

Posted Wednesday October 17, 2007, 2:53 am, Over one day old

This is a class name I tend to use for elements that should be hidden from people using a graphical browser with CSS support.

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Adobe Spry 1.6 improves standards support, adds progressive enhancement

Posted Monday October 22, 2007, 2:53 am, Over one day old

In January this year I complained about Adobe Spry and obtrusive, inaccessible JavaScript. I didn't expect things to change and dismissed Spry as something that can't be used in the real world, at least not if you care about Web standards and accessibility.

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Internet Explorer 8 announced, passes the Acid2 test

Posted Friday December 21, 2007, 2:56 am, Over one day old

A couple of weeks ago, after a long time of silence on what will come after Internet Explorer 7, it was revealed on the IEBlog that the next version of Microsoft's web browser will be Internet Explorer 8.

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Overdoing accessibility

Posted Monday December 17, 2007, 2:55 am, Over one day old

The form controls (input fields and submit button) all have tabindex attributes despite already being in a logical order in the source. Somebody, probably a well-meaning person, added alt text to the many spacer GIFs and other presentational img elements that were used on the site.

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