There's just so much great stuff going on with modern browsers, mobile devices and HTML5, so how does the Drupal community our our best to help innovation by encouraging IE6 users to upgrade to a modern browsing experience. Now Drupal 7 (core) is still will be providing support for IE6, but we really don't want to have to support it for Drupal 8 (which could well be released before IE6 is finally laid to rest by Microsoft). I've written a short note that we're using for our visitors to give... Read more
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Mike Gifford
February 16, 2011
We've made a team decision to proactively advocate for people to upgrade from IE6 to a more modern web browser. We're doing this primarily because it has given designers... Read more
February 12, 2011
Back in November of 2010 Federal Court Justice Michael Kelen gave the Treasury Board of the Government of Canada (GoC) 15 months to make all of it's websites accessible to the blind. This is still a landmark case even though the government decided to appeal the case on Jan 10th. I'm not sure how much longer the appeal will extend the case, but the writing is on the wall, the GoC is going to need to begin the long and difficult process of ensuring that it's millions of public web pages are... Read more
January 28, 2011
We've been very busy working on Drupal 7 enhancements for the last two years. It's gotten really hectic around our office in the last few months so we're not able to devote the time we wanted to launch a flashy new design. We've got a new design in the works to replace the one we set up back in early 2007 when Drupal 5 came out, but we've been prioritizing our efforts on getting to our clients sites rather than finishing up ours. Given that we're not going to be able to launch the new design... Read more
December 22, 2010
I just updated the docs on drupal.org and discovered that D7 will take care of the permissions.I was working on my first Drupal 5 to 7 migration earlier today and ran into an issue with the file system I hadn't needed to define previously. Drupal 7 has both a public and private file system path that you can define. This is great for security as you can easily divide what files you want available to the anonymous public and which they should be denied access. Drupal can be used to control... Read more
December 16, 2010
I'm the first to admit that search engine optimization is important. I know that there is a lot to be learned about how to drive people to your site and ensure that they keep coming back to it. Two years ago it was estimated that there were 63 billion pages indexed by search engines. How will your site show up in the first pages of Google results if you don't get an edge over everyone else?
I know that there really are 'SEO Experts' out there, that know the web well and have seriously... Read more
December 16, 2010
The last in the series of Drupal 6 accessibility enhancements that we're publishing will focus on improving the admin side. There is a good guide to developing theme overrides on Drupal.org. This post provides examples of modified functions that are improvements over what is in Drupal 6, mind you there are several elements fixed in Drupal 7 which can't easily be back-ported.Now the distinction of admin side vs user facing is a bit outdated in most modern CMS's. In most cases, the same HTML... Read more
December 15, 2010
Now that Drupal 7 is almost out the door, it's a good time to look through the known accessibility issues and document what are the best practices that have been implemented that can be brought into Drupal 6 themes.The first bit is perhaps the easiest. Bring over the code to handle hidden, invisible... Read more
December 14, 2010
Earlier this year we agreed to sponsor the IdealWare's 2010 report comparing popular open source content management systems, and we're glad to have done so! It is so important to have a review of different systems if only to encourage discussion... Read more
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