IBM has announced that they will soon be releasing a new browser with the aim of targeting the visually impaired market.
The browser known as A-Browser was conceived by a blind employee, Dr Chieko Asakawa, from IBM’s research lab in Japan.
The browser is totally controllable from the keyboard and allows users to engage with multimedia content [...]
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After being totally frustrated by what I believe to be a bug in Firefox’s Document Object Model (DOM) I found a very handy fix. Agave Group Design investigated this issue and realised that Firefox counts line breaks as a textNode and therefore can be returned in many situations as the next sibling rather than [...]
This is a simple task but nether the less worth documenting. The aim is to create a mask over the top of an image when hovering over them or selecting them.
The images above show the two states, the first the idle state and the second the border masked state. Obviously these are both images, [...]
I will start off by saying that I understand both the pros and cons of hacking CSS and I am not condoning it, however, I still think it is worth while showing the hacks out there and the potential to isolate specific browsers by doing this. This is only going to be a short article [...]
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I have been following the progress of Apollo Runtime for a while and thought I would share a few thoughts. To start off with I’ll just give you a basic explanation as to what it is.
what is it?
It’s a cross-OS runtime that supports the use of technologies such as Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax [...]
