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PPK’s busy; Mozilla as a Web development tool; weak Webby’s

Seems Peter-Paul Koch has been busy doing something I haven’t been doing lately: writing in-depth articles about Web design issues. His latest is about JavaScript and accessibility — a mysterious world with little known about it. His piece is an overview, for sure, but a good one that happens to reinforces some of the answers I gave to a reader about the accessibility of my navigation menu.

MozillaZine pointed me to a great article on using Mozilla as a Web development tool. That article linked yo a few other good ones including one on the browser’s new rich-text editing feature (check out the rich-text editing bookmarlet), as well as tutorials on the DOM inspector (which I use all the time) and JavaScript debugger (which I’ve yet to use). Finally, the LiveHTTPHeaders extension is worth installing (as is Checky).

The Webby nominations are out, and once again, I find myself asking, “does anyone really care about them anymore?” Of course, you can vote for the People’s Voice Awards if you do.

Laying aside my cynicism for a moment, it is good to see two notable Canadian sites listed: the amazing CBC Radio 3 has been nominated for two awards, and the barely alive Shift.com has been nominated for one.