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Archive for October, 2006

27 Oct, 2006

Big News from Tim Berners-Lee

Posted by: pat In: Geekery

Holy Cow. There’s some major news coming down the road. Big.
The plan is to charter a completely new HTML group. Unlike the previous one, this one will be chartered to do incremental improvements to HTML, as also in parallel xHTML. It will have a different chair and staff contact. It will work on HTML [...]

26 Oct, 2006

The Ultimate CSS List

Posted by: pat In: Geekery

Smashing Magazine brought us great free fonts, now the good people there have the ultimate list of CSS techniques.

24 Oct, 2006

Firefox 2, Moz’s Revenge

Posted by: pat In: Geekery

Firefox 2 has been released. Go! Go now!
More:

Upgrade done. A few extensions showed as being incompatible:

X-Ray
Colour Contrast Analyser
HTML Validator

Hopefully, it won’t be long till these three are updated. I depend heavily on all three.
Update: Geek to Live has a list of the top Firefox 2 tweaks. I know I’ll be implementing at least a [...]

22 Oct, 2006

Icon envy?

Posted by: pat In: Geekery

IBMTEXAS Employees Federal Credit Union changed its name to Amplify. Their logo looks real familiar:

Mozilla’s RSS feed icon gets adopted by Microsoft and Apple. Now IMBTEFCU becomes Amplify and gets a logo with an expanding orange striped field in it.
They apparently do have RSS feed capability.

16 Oct, 2006

Quality free Fonts are so hard to come by

Posted by: pat In: Geekery

But Smashing Magazine is making it easier.

(Tip o’ the hat to Cameron Moll)

12 Oct, 2006

Content Filtering at a University?

Posted by: pat In: Geekery

Private or not, this report from Slashdot strikes me as, umm, bad.
“I teach at a private university in San Antonio, TX. Besides some horrendous bandwidth issues, we have lately been subjected to Lightspeed and/or Websense blocking. This means that suddenly, university students are unable to see content that the rest of the (free) world sees; [...]


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About RAMsey

Welcome to the web site for Pat Ramsey, an accessibility consultant and web designer based in Austin, Texas. A device-independent Web is my dream and I believe we can achieve that with style - an accessible Web doesn't have to be a poorly designed Web.