More Nokia N95 (and Opera Mini) wishes
0000-0001-5882-6823Dear Nokia, and Opera, When using your browsers on my N95, please can I: Copy text from a web page Disable CSS View the HTML source Parse microformats (not least hCard, to add...
View ArticlehAccessibility – Unhappy First Birthday
0000-0001-5882-6823It’s one year today since Bruce Lawson and James Craig published “hAccessibility“, about the misuse of the ‘abbr’ element in microformats (an issue I first raised on 20 September...
View ArticleMarking up the scientific names of living things
0000-0001-5882-6823As any web manager worth their salt knows, it’s <span lang=”fr”>trés important</span> that changes in language be marked up with HTML’s “lang” attribute, using an IETF...
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Dates and coordinates in HTML5
0000-0001-5882-6823I’m grateful to Bruce Lawson of Opera for alerting me to discussion of the <time> element on the HTML5 mailing list (where I’ve posted a copy of this blog post) and encouraging...
View ArticleThe Highway Code should be available as a set of linkable HTML documents, not...
0000-0001-5882-6823The Highway Code is: the official road user guide for Great Britain (says Wikipedia) Drivers must study it in order to pass a driving test, and all road users should remain familiar...
View ArticleHello world!
0000-0001-5882-6823I’m migrating to a WordPress.org installation. Please bear with me — and the crappy header graphic — while I fiddle under the bonnet. The links that used to be on my home page are...
View ArticleI can teach HTML. Well.
0000-0001-5882-6823I enjoy talking about, and teaching people to use, valid, semantically-meaningful and accessible HTML. I don’t get to do the teaching very often, so, after running a session on the...
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Improving the already excellent ‘Twitter Blackbird Pie’ WordPress plugin
0000-0001-5882-6823I’ve just started using the “Twitter Blackbird Pie” plugin to embed tweets into WordPress posts (I use the self-hosted wordpress.org package). You can see an example below:...
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