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.

For a client I am building a web shop. OS Commerce is free PHP web shop software, so I decided to use it because there was not that much budget to buy a very complicated software bundle.

While working on it, I mentioned there was no breathing space in the lay-out. Every simple tag was nested in ‘a’ PHP file. That’s what I think the reason why all OS Commerce powered web shops have the same kind of lay-out with different colors.

I decided to strip all tags from the core code, I hope it will be not that hard… Together with my all time favor Smarty I want to make a highly editable lay-out engine for OS Commerce.

Hope this will not cost that much hours…