• IE 5 Mac oddities - Missing your padding on inline elements?
  IE5/Mac not displaying your padding on inline elements such as an inline list for navigation? Try setting those elements to display:inline-block — just be sure to use an IE5/Mac hack so that’s the only browser that sees that code.
  (tags: iemac ie css padding inlineblock)

• Simon Willison: Don’t use document.all
  “Don’t use document.all. document.getElementById() is supported by every Javascript supporting browser released since 1998.”
  (tags: javascript support getelementbyid ie dom)

• The Behaviour Layer: Using JavaScript for good, not evil
  This is Jeremy Keith’s presentation from @media 2005 on separating JavaScript from HTML unobtrusively. In particular, there’s some handy popup-window code, activated just by applying a class to a link.
  (tags: bestpractices javascript dom unobtrusive presentation)

• QuirksBlog: Accessible event pairs
  “In order to keep our pages accessible to non-mouse users, we must use non-mouse events like focus or keydown in addition to mouse events like mouseover and click. I created the new Event pairs page and related tests to study this problem.”
  (tags: accessibility events javascript)
• Mandarin Design: CSS Opacity and Transparency
  Everything you always wanted to know about the CSS3 “opacity” property (including the proprietary equivalents which work already, if that’s your cup of tea).
  (tags: css opacity transparency)
• QuirksBlog: Three JavaScript articles and one best practice
  PPK writes about the one time where document.write is a good practice.
  (tags: javascript document.write)

• Evermore: a WordPress plugin to automatically more-ify posts
  “Evermore is a simple WordPress plugin that automatically abbreviates all posts on a multiple-post page such as the blog home page. It has the same effect as putting the ‘more’ tag after the first paragraph of every post.”
  (tags: wordpress plugins more)
• WordPress Database Backup v1.5
  This is a plug-n-play plugin to backup your WordPress database. It can e-mail the backup to you or offer it as a download (or just store it on the server). And, it supports scheduled backups as well.
  (tags: wordpress plugins backup)

• “Why use raquo as a page title separation?” - WordPress Support
  So, you’d like to switch from using right-double-angle-quotes in your WordPress blog, for accessibility? In addition to the title tag in your theme’s header.php, you’ll also need to update wp-includes/template-functions-general.php.
  (tags: wordpress accessibility titletag raquo)
• The Semantics of Menu Indicators (such as raquo)
  In this article, Brothercake writes about the semantics of raquo (right double angle quote) and alternatives.
  (tags: accessibility raquo)

• Make Wordpress ‘More’ Links Accessible
  “If the ‘more’ feature is used several times in a page, then most of the links on the page will have the link text (more…) which is not very accessible. […]”
  (tags: wordpress accessibility)

• The Sound of the Accessible Title Tag Separator
  This may end Leia’s use of the » forever.
  (tags: accessibility jaws)
• Styled Checkboxes
  Completely restyle checkboxes and radio buttons using CSS and javascript. Not entirely valid, but a neat implementation nonetheless.
  (tags: design javascript css)
• bobbyvandersluis.com | Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0
  “UFO is a DOM script that detects and embeds Flash objects”. And, the script supports “replacement content, like a replacement image for those who don’t have the appropriate Flash plug-in or JavaScript , and/or search engine friendly content.”
  (tags: accessibility dom javascript flash)
• DOM Scripting Task Force - Welcome
  “DOM Scripting Task Force” is a new blog under the Web Standards Project umbrella, focusing on web standards within DOM/JavaScript coding.
  (tags: dom javascript webstandards ecmascript blog)
• Simple WAI (web accessibility) hack « WordPress Support
  “With two small modifications, the default Kubrick template can meet almost all of the WAI guidelines (and all of the Priority 1 guidelines).”
  (tags: wordpress kubrick forms themes accessibility wai)

A new design for our blog is underway and our boss has given us the green light to develop it live. So, we’ll be making the XHTML/CSS changes right on this server and you’ll be able to see the coding progress in realtime. Stay tuned. (more…)

• del.icio.us daily blog posting feature support?
  Settings for adding del.icio.us links to your WordPress blog once a day
  (tags: del.icio.us wordpress)