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• 10 Tools for Evaluating Web Design Accessibility
  Testing for web accessibility (how usable a website is by individuals with disabilities) is an often neglected part of web design and development. Web accessibility is important not only because your content will reach a wider range of audience, but also because correcting web accessibility issues have secondary benefits such as cleaner and more semantic code and better indexibility on search engines.

The focus behavior of form elements is not supported correctly in all browsers. That’s why I created this simple small script to add this functionality to all text fields in a page. It uses the YUI javascript library, but it off course can be made also for other libraries like jQuery or Prototype.
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Yahoo!’s YUI team announced a preview release of their Javascript framework. This is a big release! It is lighter, faster, more consistent, more powerful and more securable. There is a change is style and structure (sandboxing, modularity, self-completing, selectors, custom events, nodes and nodelists, chaining). The first big beta release is planned to be in December 2008.

Very nice light writing photos by Cenci
Goepel und Jens Warnecke.

Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept series. For more, visit adaptivepath.com/aurora

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

Over the last three or four years the role of Frontend Engineering has become more important, more respected, more challenging, and more in-demand than ever before, and so Nate Koechley wanted to put a stake in the ground clarifying what we do, how we do it, and why it’s so important to raise it to a professional level. See the slides of his presentation: Professional Frontend Engineering.