Web Standards, Accessibility & More

I love the Firefox browser, but I’ve had a couple issues with it lately. The first is image caching; Firefox was just not putting images in its cache; the graphics had to keep loading over and over! How obnoxious! After some tedious searching, I finally found the solution, which was a big relief:

1. Type ‘about:config’ in the address bar
2. Find ‘browser.cache.disk.enable’, right-click on it and choose ‘reset’.
3. Find ‘browser.cache.memory.enable’, right-click on it and choose ‘reset’.

The second issue is the use of Gmail with Firefox and Firebug, the awesome web developer add-on. The latest version of Gmail doesn’t like the Firebug/Firefox combination. C’mon, Google, how did that happen?! The solution (unfortunately) is to disable Firebug with the Gmail URL; while in Gmail, right-click on the Firebug icon and select “Disable Firebug for mail.google.com”.

Anyone else had these problems?

I’m a tennis fan, and I’ve sure been enjoying the Australian Open this year. Incredible matches; the level of play has been remarkable. Unfortunately, not many Americans made it to far into the tournament.

Yesterday, Novak Djokovic crushed world number one Roger Federer in the semi-finals. Glad for this as Federer just wins too much! And my favorite two players on the women’s side are in the finals, Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic.

Ana Ivanovic

Here are some recent blog articles that are a must read for any web developer (especially front-end coders).

• Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone – Microsoft folks are claiming that IE8 will be standards-compliant.
• A Preview of HTML 5 – Wazzup with the next version of HTML?
• Add and Remove Elements with JavaScript (reprise) – very powerful code for implementing your unobtrusive JavaScript.
• Secure and Accessible Contact Form v3 – from Mike Cherim’s Beast-Blog, a great standards-friendly and accessible contact form (using PHP).