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The good mozilla vs ugly IE browser campaign
- Writing by Rajveer
- On June 21st, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I remember once I walked to the auto street market in pink city of India for buying a helmet. Many shopkeeper were trying to pull me in, and few of them were shouting “we have got the cheapest - we have got the best” - well cheap may not be the best always. I am sure they were wasting their energy to attract someone who is looking for a helmet which can surely save their head when needed, but not break with it :-).
By now many of us …
No alternative text for CSS background images
- Writing by Rajveer
- On February 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Many people are doing their best to keep the web design/development world aware of accessibility. But I have been noticing lack of awareness about basic principles of web accessibility among the people who are best with design and development. I strongly believe there is a need of taking a fundamental approach to understand that even a good design can be criticized if basic rules of web design are ignored.
Use of alternate text on images and use of images as background is something that drives me crazy too often.
There’s an obvious reason as why the …
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