NickCowie.com
Blog URL http://nickcowie.com
Located Perth, Western Australia Australia
Playing with HTML and CSS, talking about Web standards, accessibility and such like with a bias toward Government web sites
Latest Blog Posts
- RGBa backgrounds in IE on Nov 8, 2009 in css and html progressive enhancement css3 ie6 RGBA
RGBa is the new black, with support in most modern Safari 3, Firefox 3 and Opera 10, you can have semi transparent elements. Only there is no support currently in IE for RGBa. However, you can easily fake it for backgrounds of block elements in IE...
- Why use CSS Zen Garden for CSS3 demo on Nov 6, 2009 in Just geek css and html presentations progressive enhancement css zen garden css3
For those who have not seen my Edge of the Web CSS3 demonstration I used the CSS Zen Garden HTML. Why, because I wanted to use somebody else's HTML, mainly because I wanted to show it works with any HTML and that most people would be familiar with th...
- CSS3 presentations at EOTW09 and WebJam11 on Nov 5, 2009 in conferences css and html presentations progressive enhancement css3 eotw09 webjam11
I really enjoyed developing my presentation for Edge of the Web. The research and experimentation was a lot of fun. Explore the demo using CSS Zen Garden HTML and seriously try it in IE6, the WebJam presentation with some even more outrageous trans...
- The League of Moveable Type on Sep 12, 2009 in css and html progressive enhancement fonts
I just admire The League of Moveable Type. While a lot of font foundries are still working on licensing issues with embedding fonts in PDFs. here a couple of font designers discovered @font-face and went lets make the world a better place. By creatin...
- I am on the Edge of the Web on Sep 8, 2009 in Just geek conferences css and html progressive enhancement css3 edge of the web eotw web conference
Well I am speaking at the Edge of the Web Conference in Perth in November. The title Progressive Enhancement with CSS: Or how I stopped worrying about IE6 and starting loving CSS3. The aim is to show how you can use CSS2 and CSS3 to improve the expe...
- Cleaning up Word HTML on Sep 7, 2009 in css and html clean word word html
If you are like me, on occasions you have people want to paste directly from Word into CMS or Wordpress. I was bemoaning the fact, that you either end up with Word HTML or lose all the formatting, when a colleague of mine, Stephen Miles suggest I use...
- It is 2009 and some people still do not get accessibility on Aug 28, 2009 in .gov sites accessibilty gov2au
At the Gov2.0 taskforce roadshow I ended up in conversation with a representative of one Department bemoaning the fact the Government will not give them extra money to make their websites WCAG 1.0 level 2 compliant.
