Last week was the Mozilla Accessibility Summit in Cambridge, MA. Shane Anderson gives a general overview, with links to Mark Pilgrim’s more detailed account of the presentations. If you’re getting the sense that Firefox is positioning itself as a sort of vanguard to advance and cultivate the cause of web accessibility, you would be correct. […]
Microsoft’s Chris Wilson, the Group Program Manager for IE, is interviewed by ZDNet regarding the issue of whether Microsoft’s latest web browser IE7 is - and will be - CSS and Web standards compliant. Some people are still skeptical.
Will makes an interesting point in his blog post about using browser-specific CSS and still having webpages validate. His quandry:
Have you ever been tempted to use a CSS property such as -moz-border-radius, but can’t stand the thought of having a page that refuses to validate?
He can’t add it to an external stylesheet through <link>, nor […]
Web developers have been told to ensure that the sites they build are operable with browsers which rival Internet Explorer. This includes open-source heroes Firefox and Apple’s Safari. Deri Jones of SciVisum explains their reasoning and has the XiTI metrics to back it up:
Jones advised web developers to develop code around the W3C’s Cascading Style […]
Firefox 1.5 is out and I can say, it is a great improvement. It’s faster, the friendlier error messages are real nice, and all the extras make it a great reason to upgrade from Version 1.06.
Firefox is also having an “open source” ad campaign, sort of like the Apple “Switch” campaign. They are allowing […]