Category Archives: Webmastering

This entry is really for my benefit. My RSS news feeds seemed to be full of stuff about web access these past few days so I figured I’d tie all the links together here. As I’ve mentioned before, I used … Continue reading →

I just discovered that Greymatter 1.3 is out, copacetic! Since I’ve made very minor contributions to that, I guess I got to try it out.

Over the last few hours (Hey when you’re in the tao, you work late!), I’ve made extensive revisions to this site. I fixed the style switcher and installed it on all pages on this site. If you pick a style, … Continue reading →

Smarter people than me have been thinking about the separation of presentation and structure in Web documents in the last week. Some of these arguments seem like angels dancing on pinheads. For me it’s simple. The goal should be to … Continue reading →

There are still a few bugs to work out. For example, it’s not planting a cookie in my browsers. This needs to happen for the selected style to persist. I also have to install it for all the pages that … Continue reading →

This news is a few days old but still important. Verisign, which owns Network Solutions, has added a wildcard record to the .COM and .NET top level domain DNS zones. What this means is that fighting spam is harder, e-mail … Continue reading →

There were two articles on Web today that inspired a long story in me. One was about the implications of semantic Web design and the other was about Web accessibility and standards. For me, the tone of the articles was … Continue reading →

Search engines reveal yet another reason why Word and Acrobat formats are not appropriate for the Web. Documents on the Web really should just be ASCII text, HTML or XHTML.

Many of the beautiful designs at the CSS Zen Garden rely on a trick that’s been dubbed Farhner Image Replacement. In the best of worlds, this trick would actually enhance accessibility, but the reality is that at least one screen … Continue reading →

In the best of worlds, ECMAscript-driven stylesheet-switchers wouldn’t be necessary; browsers would load and parse all linked stylesheets and then give the user the option to choose one that suits. In the real world this isn’t true, so I gotta … Continue reading →