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How bad are your city's drivers

By Andrew, 30 October, 2022

Looking at the latest America's Best Drivers Report, it looks like Baltimore and DC have the nations worst drivers.  Take that Boston!

Firefox developer release notes

By admin, 19 October, 2022

Does anyone else look over the Firefox release notes for developers and find themselves like kids in a toy store?

 

 

 

Firefox 104 now supports focusVisible

By Andrew, 31 August, 2022

Firefox 104  now supports the  option.focusVisible parameter for HTMLElement.focus().   option.focusVisible can be used to force a browser to display a visible indicator when an element has programmatically been given focus. Without this being set, it is left up to the browser to determine if a visible focus indicator should be set or not. 

Further reading:

  • Bugzilla bug report: 1765083 - Focus Ring not always shown when focus is set in Javascript
  • Chromium bug report (not implemented as of 2022.08.31): 1317039 - Focus Ring not always shown when focus is set in Javascript (implement FocusOptions.focusVisible)

Rekindling my relationship with VIM

By Andrew, 22 June, 2022

Lately I've been making a conscious effort to use Vim more often.  In addition to enjoying the austere editing experience (it truly is an elegant editor from more uncomplicated times).

I wonder if Vim will become cool again and transform itself into a hipster editor and endear itself to the poncey crowd? 

Accessibility and screen shots

By Andrew, 2 April, 2022

If you have a screen shot directing a user to click on a link in the top-right of the page, what should the alternate text be?

For users relying on screen reading technology, the spatial location of link doesn't really matter.

But for low vision users (who might want to know where to target their screen magnification software), it does matter quite a bit.

Making Illiad more accessible

By Andrew, 21 February, 2022

I've been working on creating some accessibility-enhanced ILLiad web templates for 9.0 version of OCLC's web templates.

The recently released 9.2 web templates are markedly better, but still could be improved a bit, so I've been working on 9.2 templates with improved accessibility.

Some nostalgia

By Andrew, 8 July, 2021
  • 1970s Nostalgia for People Who Lived in the Grooviest Decade | Best Life
  • What Life Was Like In the '70s - It's Rosy
  • 25 Reasons We're Glad We Grew Up in the '70s | Best Life

Hard Drive longevity data

By Andrew, 23 February, 2020

Want to know which hard drives Backblaze uses and how they've performed in exhaustive detail? 

The three "C"s of system installation

By Andrew, 11 February, 2020

Constitution, configuration, and cursing

19 hours and 16 minutes non-stop flight

By Andrew, 20 October, 2019

Qantas completes test of longest non-stop passenger flight - BBC News

Never has the random selection of who ends up sitting next to you seemed so important.

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