The transition to the new hosting and email provider has been completed. In the process, I upgraded my MT installation to a MySQL backend, so renders are now faster and backups easier. BTW, if you sent me mail over the past week or so and I haven’t responded, please re-send it—it may have been lost during the transfer.
Last week I gave a presentation about the importance of IA to an international group of scientists and science journalists. Afterwards, I hung out with some folks from Panama’s Secretariat for Science and Technology (SENACYT), and we came around to the topic of Web accessibility.
While this is an important subject all over the world, some countries (the US, for example) do a better job than others of requiring businesses and governments to adhere to accessibility standards that give folks with physical disabilities a fair shot at getting everyday tasks done. In Panama we are nowhere near as accessibility-aware as the US is, but it’s good to know that the folks at SENACYT are looking into it.
In a moment of Jung-style synchronicity, I just came across this article at webreference.com, which does a great job of introducing the topic.
I recently mentioned having problems with my current hosting provider’s email policies. The situation has gotten bad enough that I’ve decided to change providers, and the first of many sites to move will be jarango.com.
Over the course of the next weeks, I will be transferring the site to a new hosting provider. I will also take the opportunity to upgrade Movabletype to use a MySQL backend, and make many other improvements as well.
So now you know… if you see anything broken it’s because I’m tinkering.
PCWorld: Mozilla Gains on IE. “Over the last month, Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market dropped by 1 percent.” Firefox is an excellent browser. Version 0.9 is rock solid. My favorite feature is one that Explorer will probably never match: cross-platform compatibility. I can fire up a Mozilla-based browser in Linux, OS X, or Win XP, and have them render sites perfectly and consistently in all three browsers.
I’m eagerly awaiting Microsoft’s response to this trend. If the next version of IE is in fact scheduled to accompany Longhorn, and won’t be available for download before the OS’s debut, we can safely predict further market share loss for them.
W3C: Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition. “This document reflects the three bases of Web architecture: identification, interaction, and representation.”
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