If you’re a front-end developer, you’re probably testing your sites with multiple versions of IE. (In late 2003, Joe Maddalone discovered a means of running multiple versions of Internet Explorer on a single machine, much to the relief of developers everywhere.) If you haven’t tried running multiple versions, check out PPK’s writeup at Quirksmode.org where you can download specific versions. (more…)

As you may be aware, longdesc is an attribute of image tags which can be used to provide a description more lengthy than its alt attribute (as a rule of thumb, images with alt text > 150 characters would benefit from a separate longdesc). However, unlike an alt attribute, an image’s longdesc attribute (if used) specifies a URI linking to a separate page. (more…)