isolani: weblogisolani: blogging about web standards, accessibility, semantic web, intelligent agents, gadgets and web developmentMake or break with Ubuntu- April 27, 2008 I've reformatted my main home laptop (Thinkpad R31) from Windows XP to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). The XP install is borked to the point I can no longer use it. I thought I'd try out a recent version of Ubuntu and see if I can make the transition, and if that proves too much, I can always reformat the laptop with a brand new installation of Windows XP. Why Ubuntu The main reason is that Sam Ruby is using it on his company Thinkpad, and still keeps getting great stuff done. The fact that its...http://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/stuff/MakeOrBreakWithUbuntu The accessibility of the date-time pattern in Microformats- April 26, 2008 Jeremy Keith erupted into a hissy fit during the panel session of AbilityNet's Accessibility 2.0 conference yesterday. His venting revolved around earlier accessibility criticism of the microformat's adoption of the abbr element as a way of attaching machine-readable dates to written dates, for example in the calendar microformat. Unfortunately, Jeremy dodged the real accessibility issues of the date-time microformat pattern, instead preferring to create a strawman, and boisterously batter...http://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/access/AccessibilityOfDateTimeMicroformat |