April 27, 2006
A company called Net Application just released a report on browsers that showed that Firefox has finally gained a double-digit share of the browser market. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 still has about 85% of the market share, and Apple’s Safari creeps in at 3%.
The simple fact is that Internet Explorer is the equivalent of listening to music tapes: there’s not a single advantage of tapes over CDs, but it took people quite a while to make the change. Why is IE so bad? What is it missing?
April 12, 2006
We recently had a client for which we made a series of recommendations for their future website. As a public body they were obliged to conform at the very least to the W3C WAI WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) Priority 2 compliance standard and we made specific recommendations around that area. But there’s a BIG PROBLEM. Their supplier has purchased an off-the-shelf menu widget from a third party to build some slick dropdown menus. While the third party supplier promises Triple-A and 508 compliance, in practice it is anything but.