Technical (page 3)
WCAG 2.0: clear as mud?
The current draft of the long-awaited WCAG2.0 is going down like a lead balloon in some quarters.
- Originally published: 23 May 2006 in Technical
Smart clients dress in grey
I’ve been working on several .NET Smart Clients recently. A Smart Client is a hybrid application in that the user runs it from the desktop, but its data is provided by a Web Service. I tend to avoid the dull marketing speak that Microsoft churns out. This kind of output is often a gloopy porridge …
- Originally published: 21 Mar 2006 in Technical
About time for accessibility
The British Standards Institute (BSI) weighs in on web accessibility with PAS78.
- Originally published: 8 Mar 2006 in Technical
CSS floats: container does not stretch to fit floated contents
Here’s a quick resolution to an almost ungooglable problem.
- Originally published: 18 Jan 2006 in Technical
Graphic Designers are not Web Designers
Glad you could join us: communications agencies have finally decided that the Internet is highbrow. Hold on tight!
- Originally published: 24 Nov 2005 in Technical
Web Standards
What progression we have in the field of web development is thanks in no small part to Jeffrey Zeldman.
- Originally published: 17 Oct 2005 in Technical
Solution to nested DIV float problems
A CSS hack for nested divs that break out of their container.
- Originally published: 12 Sep 2005 in Technical
Am I a DIV or what?
Kicking out the tables means having to revise a lot of old habits.
- Originally published: 28 Jul 2005 in Technical
More IE woes: the curved corner DIV
Rendering CSS rounded corners is still surprisingly difficult thanks to inconsistently-applied browser standards.
- Originally published: 19 Jul 2005 in Technical
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
MASH
A confusing mish-mash of dialogue sharply delivered by a wisecracking ensemble.
- Originally published: 12 Apr 2007 in Film
A bit of Crupet
Looking for a way to enjoy the rest of the summer after our holiday, we began our Belgian weekend walking adventures here.
- Originally published: 17 Aug 2009 in Walking
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
A timeless art collection that survived the times.
- Originally published: 28 Mar 2009 in Museums & Galleries
Service with a frown: the joy of Brussels taxis
Taking a taxi in Brussels is expensive: maybe the hacks should read some Confucian philosophy
- Originally published: 11 May 2010 in Editorial
Hiking kit: what to wear and what to pack
The kit required for day-hiking in temperate northern Europe: what to wear and what to pack for all seasons
- Originally published: 14 May 2010 in Walking
Stop ACTA!
A privately-negotiated international trade agreement that's anti-sharing, anti-privacy and anti-democratic.
Let's put a stop to ACTA.
Who you gonna call?
Hello, you. I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name as those guys. I'm a user experience consultant, expatriate, traveller, writer and pro cycling enthusiast.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert. I started my website in 2005 and I've been running it ever since.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.