Flash isn’t really my thing, but accessibility is. So Mike’s linkdump about Flash and accessibility was good news to hear about: Flash can be more accessible than most people know.

Flash, being the only technology with any kind of ubiquity worth developing in, seems to answer so many branding problems but creates so many technical problems that most designer / developers go back to the client and say. “Sorry, there are some things on the internet that do not work…”.

“No” has never been a very good selling point.

On Steve Krug’s Web site a chapter from his book ‘Don’t Make Me Think’ is available to look up. The chapter is about how people use the internet:

• We don’t read pages. We scan them.
• We don’t make optimal choices. We satisfice.
• We don’t figure out how things work. We muddle through.

Recently the new version of PHP was released: version 5.2.0. It can be downloaded from the PHP.net site, as well as the changelist.

Some of the key features:

• New memory manager for the Zend Engine with improved performance and a more accurate memory usage tracking.
• Input filtering extension was added and enabled by default.
• JSON extension was added and enabled by default.
• ZIP extension for creating and editing zip files was introduced.
• Hooks for tracking file upload progress were introduced.
• Introduced E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR error mode.
• Introduced DateTime and DateTimeZone objects with methods to manipulate date/time information.
• Upgraded bundled SQLite, PCRE libraries.
• Upgraded OpenSSL, MySQL and PostgreSQL client libraries for Windows installations.
• Many performance improvements.
• Over 200 bug fixes.

For his Open & Closed Project Joe Clark needs some money to get around with it. As many Web logs reported, he just set up his micro patronage system. So donate something or place a banner like me.

If you usually run IE 7, but also want to test in IE 6 or even 5.5, Yousif Al Saif has got the solution. He made a program called MultipleIE, which installs IE versions 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.01 and 3.0. So there you go testing…

Via Emil