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Monday 16 May 2005
Back in the USA
I’M SITTING HERE IN CHICAGO hanging with Aaron Gustafson and preparing for our three day event in Joliet. It’s nice to be back, but I have a lot of work to do yet so many things I want to say about Japan and my experiences there, as well as getting an overview together of the conference and many of the ideas shared there.
In the meantime, since Aaron is offering me some yummy baked goods while we work on our slides, I figured I’d point you two excellent articles he’s recently written. The first is <select> Something New, Part I , which is an introduction to using the DOM and CSS to create lovely, styled <select> elements within forms. In Part II of the article, Aaron talks about how to make the resulting form more accessible by tapping into keyboard controls.
Finally, and equally interesting, is an example of using JavaScript to show link destinations in a printed page, collecting the links into a footnote to make the reading experience more pleasurable. A cross-browser alternative to generated content.
Time for tea and slides. Enjoy the articles and let me hear how you’re doing, too!
Filed under: food and drink, standards, travel, web design and development
Posted by: Molly | 09:45 | Comments (12)
A tasty, buttery croissant awaits you in Joliet
I’m holding you to that, Aaron.
Okay, this is really seriously geeky bad. We’re sitting right next to each other using IM and blog comments to talk.
Hey Mols,
One of our own WOWers, Kristine Kimbrough, is making her way out there to see you. Wish I could have gone, myself.
Anyway, if you two get a chance to chat, please remind her to tell you I said hello. Somehow, it’ll mean more coming from you.
Hey Molly…you know who lives in Chicago? Me and Trapper! You should call us and say Hi!
Welcome back to the states Molly, you need to come to the next Ohio Linux Con and speak about… something.
reminds me of the time that I had my multi-service IM client (can’t remember which one), and I was speaking to Molly on two different service — she had two clients open because she wasn’t as hip as I was. Then, we pulled in a third friend, Josh, on chat in one.
Hello Molly !
I’m working with a non-profit, french-speaking standard-geeks group who translates english articles about web Design and programming on http://www.pompage.net. Is it possible to release a translation of ” Something New” on our site ?
Juste mail me to let me know on jr.duboc@gmail.com
jr… I will be in touch shortly.
Thanks for you anwser
My mates in the translation team are concerned about your technique’s compatibiliy in JAWS. They can’t “see” the element in it. Is fixing this problem scheduled in the 3rd article ?
i luv u
Anyway, if you two get a chance to chat, please remind her to tell you I said hello. Somehow, it’ll mean more coming from you.