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» Developer Beware: Using Flash to Detect Screen Readers - The Paciello Group Blog

Thought this article about detecting assistive technologies was interesting. Particularly like the second comment by Christian Heilmann (of Yahoo!) who suggests that rather than using this for Flash we use it where AJAX or other progressive enhancements are present and gracefully degrade the behaviour accordingly to offer those users a better experience.

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“ In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting “Standards” mode in IE8’s Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that explicitly (using the http header/meta tag approach described here). Going Forward Long term, we believe this is the right thing for the web. Shorter term, leading up not just to IE8’s release but broader IE8 adoption, this choice creates a clear call to action to site developers to make sure their web content works well in IE. This topic is one of many things we’ll talk about with respect to IE8 at MIX this week.

— IEBlog : Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8

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» IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8

Oh Happy Day! Yay, this put me in a good mood this morning.

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» TechCrunch UK » Where is your Bucks of Woodside?

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The Equation Bookshelf is designed by Marcos Breder and is a simple idea of to divide things in priority order. As you can see the design is quite unique, stylish and original. You can put together the books that you need immediately or more important between (parentheses) or maybe a photo, or something important for you to be the focal point of this bookselhf. Set others between [square brackets] and {braces}.

via freshome.com

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“ The proposed default behavior for version targeting in Internet Explorer solves the problem of “breaking the web” in much the same way that decapitation solves the problem of headaches.

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A List Apart: Articles: They Shoot Browsers, Don’t They? Jeremy Keith.

This, is an inspired phrase!

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» A List Apart: Articles: They Shoot Browsers, Don't They?

“Here, here” as they say in Parliament. Yay! for Jeremy and his well constructed article. As ever I am jealous of the eloquence of these guys, jealous in a highly respecting manner ;)

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This toxic, counterproductive years of experience myth has permeated the software industry for as long as I can remember. Imagine how many brilliant software engineers companies are missing out on because they are completely obsessed with finding people who match— exactly and to the letter— some highly specific laundry list of skills.

Somehow, they’ve forgetten that what software developers do best is learn. Employers should be loooking for passionate, driven, flexible self-educators who have a proven ability to code in whatever language — and serving them up interesting projects they can engage with.

It’s been shown time and time again that there is no correlation between years of experience and skill in programming. After about six to twelve months working in any particular technology stack, you either get it or you don’t. No matter how many years of “experience” another programmer has under their belt, there’s about even odds that they have no idea what they’re doing.

— Coding Horror: The Years of Experience Myth

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» Taking Projects to the Extreme

This article has an excellent description of success sliders. Success sliders are a great visual tool so that everyone knows what will make a project a success - is it on time delivery? etc It also makes the client prioritise.

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» New Media Knowledge » Blog Archive » Beers and Innovation 13: Developers and Designers

I will now be chairing this panel, I think it should make for an excellent debate on issues that I am passionate about.

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