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We have avoided using CSS3 rules for too long. It’s been difficult to justify using rules that won’t work for a significant portion of our audience, Internet Explorer 7 and below. However, Internet Explorer 8 is coming out soon and does work with the features we like.

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Sometimes the simplest information is difficult to find. Today I was searching for the HTML entities for French characters. Fortunately, I found the following resource French Encoding and Language Tags from Penn State.
Here’s an example of the information available on the Teaching with Technology site:

 
Lowercase Vowels

à
à (225)

â
â (226)

ä
ä (228)

è
è (232)

é
é (233)

ê
ê (234)

ë
ë (235)

î
î (238)

ï
ï (239)

ô
ô [...]

The MIX 2008 conference is this week and Microsoft is showing off some of their latest tools. One of these is the much anticipated and discussed Internet Explorer 8 browser. It’s important to remember that this is still a beta 1 release and is much better than the IE7 beta 1. This one actually has [...]

Let’s say you want to link to a song on the internet. Let’s also say that you want your users to easily listen to that music. Further, let’s say you want people to find and enjoy the music without having JavaScript enabled.
Is this asking too much?
Yahoo’s Christian Heilmann has been advocating layered, semantic badging.
Yahoo [...]

The Royal National Institute of Blind People has just released a set of guidelines for building accessible Flash ads. While these are aimed at ads, there’s no reason you can’t use the same guidelines in all of your Flash projects.

Provide a text equivalent for the animation.
Provide an alternative for the Flash animation
Readability
Looping and blinking
Test your [...]