This is

as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

. Here I write about many things. In the past I wrote about other things but the past is past. I write code for people to play with, I write about my life on Twitter, and I write here.

On I wrote Spacer gifs, on the subject of Uncategorized.

Mark Pilgrim's latest accessibility tip concerns spacer images, specifically the need to add blank alt text so as to not confuse non-visual browsers. Spacer gifs: just say no. Do it with CSS. I don't believe I've found any design so far which uses CSS for positioning and needs spacer images; they're a necessary evil when using tables for layout. Not that you can necessarily stop doing that, although I have. The text browser I use, w3m, seems to display an image name even if it has blank alt text, which is annoying. I may have not set a preference right or something -- it's never important enough for me to actually try and fix it. -----

This website belongs to Stuart Langridge. Contact details are available. Don't eat yellow snow. Valid HTML5, at least in theory, except for the bits that aren't because I'm that futuristic that I'm ahead of the spec, oh yes. HTML5 help from Bruce Lawson, among others. Fonts from the superb FontSquirrel. End.