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Microsoft Reverse Versioning Decision in IE8

Microsoft recently announced a reversal in Internet Explorer (IE) 8’s expected default rendering behaviour.
Instead of IE8 automatically implementing IE7’s rendering when showing pages requesting “Standards” mode, it will now use its own (IE8) Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown IE7 Standards mode will need to request this explicitly.

Table Captions and Internet Explorer

If table captions are block level elements, why doesn’t Internet Explorer 7 honour off-left positioning?

“The caption boxes are block-level boxes that retain their own content, padding, margin, and border areas, and are rendered as normal blocks inside the anonymous box.”
W3C CSS 2.1 Specification

Strange Behaviour in Opera 9

A couple of days ago, I was just putting the finishing touches to a proposed design for a new client when I ran a final keyboard navigation check on it in my copy of Opera 9. To my complete suprise (and horror), the A and Q keys that are normally used to cycle forward and [...]

Designing For Dyslexics: Part 3

In the final article of this short series on accessites.org, I’ve tried to provide a quick summary of some of the relatively small changes that can be made to increase web accessibility for dyslexics. I’m not convinced that it’s an exhaustive list, though. So I’d be very interested in hearing about any other issues that [...]