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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.

Constructing More Links

What is the best way to construct a “Read more” link?
Site news, blogs, article archives. These are all examples of situations in which it is common to publish a small text extract (or “teaser”) from a piece of content followed by a link to the full, uncut, version. The problem we have, from an accessibility [...]

Headings As Navigational Aids

During a discussion on the GAWDS mailing list, the following was raised:
Screen reader users frequently navigate using heading lists but, is their mental model of a page impaired if a header is skipped? Or are they quite happy as long as there are headers (with clearly associated content) that they can use? Is there a [...]

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