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	<description>Web standards, accessibility, usability and some Javascript</description>
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		<title>Front-end developer essentials – which DTD to use?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web standards and accessibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A DTD (document type definition) tells the browser what version of (X)HTML you are coding your web page in. Standards compliant pages must contain a DTD as the first item on the page otherwise it will not validate. Which one should you use? An incomplete or no DTD may put your browser into quirks mode [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick tip: Live event not trapping submit in IE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quick tip]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This problem manifested itself when a user clicked submit from a form that had been loaded in using AJAX to a jQuery UI dialog box. Everything was fine in my development browsers, but in IE the user would be posted off to a new page. The following live handler on a submit event will work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The accesskey attribute &#8211; do we still need it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web standards and accessibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The accesskey attribute has been part of the HTML specification for over ten years and its purpose is to give keyboard users a shortcut to access a specific area of the page or to jump to a different page. In HTML5 the accesskey may be used on any element, but do web developers still need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside guardian.co.uk – gallery redesign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web standards and accessibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian has just resdesigned their gallery pages and it&#8217;s the piece of work I&#8217;m most proud of. I&#8217;ve written a post detailing some of the technical aspects about it on the insideguardian.co.uk blog. Introducing our new picture galleries]]></description>
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		<title>Front-end developer essentials – Accessibility &amp; web standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web standards and accessibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series that should form the building blocks to being a good all-round front-end developer. Previously I explained the basic ideas behind user interface design and here I&#8217;ll discuss why accessibility and web standards are important. Accessibility We involve web accessibility in web development to ensure that people with disabilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Front-end developer essentials &#8211; User interface design</title>
		<link>http://www.punkchip.com/2010/05/front-end-developer-essentials-ui-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 21:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web standards and accessibility]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.punkchip.com/?p=290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series that should form the building blocks to being a good all-round front-end developer. If you peruse the current job market you will see that there is so much more than knowing how to code HTML, CSS and Javascript. I&#8217;m going to start with ideas that should be thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>jQuery: Accessible search toggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 17:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Javascript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web standards and accessibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an update to a post I wrote four years ago to make an accessible search toggle using Javascript. Since then Javascript libraries such as jQuery have become popular, so it makes sense to bring this post up-to-date. Solid foundations Progressive enhancement is what you should strive to achieve when building a web page. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Javascript shorthand for cleaner code</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 19:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Javascript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web standards and accessibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few ways to save on some bytes in your Javascript code, as well as making it more readable and quicker to write: Variable increment/decrement/multiply/divide When you want to increase or decrease a number variable by one; instead of this: growCount = growCount + 1; shrinkCount = shrinkCount - 1; You can simply do the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Removing forward slashes from a string</title>
		<link>http://www.punkchip.com/2010/05/removing-forward-slashes-from-a-string/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Javascript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All I wanted was to remove all forward slashes in a string using Javascript. It turns out that&#8217;s more complicated than you&#8217;d think and after multiple searches on Google I finally found the answer, in a comment on somone&#8217;s post. A quick test can be written as follows: myUrlString = "/apple/banana/satsuma/"; noSlashes = myUrlString.replace(/\//g,''); alert(noSlashes); [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside guardian.co.uk blog post</title>
		<link>http://www.punkchip.com/2009/12/inside-guardian-blog-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web standards and accessibility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just written a post over at the Inside guardian.co.uk blog about how, as a team, we&#8217;re trying to improve the client-side for our users.]]></description>
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