I’ve spent about four hours putting Google Chrome through the wringer and overall are impressed with the browser, despite some rather large functional gaps. In checking a range of Australian government sites I did not observe any significant usability or display issues – none more than users of Safari (which uses the same renderer, WebKit)…
The Google Chrome beta is now available at www.google.com/chrome. I’m taking a look, and will provide impressions, as I did for Internet Explorer 8, later today. Other information is available from ZDNet, who liveblogged the Google press conference, and from the Google Chrome media kit, which includes screenshots and videos.
CNET has published what looks to be the first picture of the Google Chrome browser in an article, Google Chrome update: First screenshot, and live-blog alert. The release looks to be scheduled for 11am US Pacific time.
Google is releasing the beta of its first web browser on Tuesday 2 September – US time, and if the media information Google has released is accurate, the product could reshape the face of web browsing over the next few years.Google Chrome is the company’s first foray into the web browsing market – but represents…
It’s going to be a busy six months for web teams, addressing WCAG 2.0 (the new W3C Accessibility Guidelines) and the release of Internet Explorer 8. For those who want to stay ahead of the game (like me), the second IE8 beta is now available for public download here.As I’ve now switched almost totally to…
I’ve just been reading the State of the eNation report on the Beijing Olympics website, where they invited disabled web users to test the accessibility features of the site. While they found a number of the worst issues commonly reported by these users had been addressed, the remaining accessibility problems still made it very difficult…
The last few days have seen a number of media reports criticising the new Federal government Grocery choice website. Amidst the noise there are several key takeaways for public sector website managers. Note that I’m not involved with the Grocery choice website or program. I’m commenting from the perspective of a public sector web manager…
A theme I often hear in Australian web design circles is “make the website less crowded”. It’s accepted wisdom that a website should have plenty of white space, clearly separated parts – and as little text as possible – particularly on the homepage. Similar to Google’s 28 word limit, Australian communicators seem to consider the…
The Web Industry Professionals Association (WIPA) have published a guide to help webmasters migrating websites from the the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 1.0 to the soon-to-be-released WCAG 2.0.The HTML version of “Migrating from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0” is at http://wipa.org.au/papers/wcag-migration.htm As WCAG 1.0 is mandatory for Australian government agency websites, this…
I was reading a very interesting blog post the other day regarding the experiences of someone who is colourblind, Confessions of a colourblind man. It raised a number of accessibility issues with printed material, moving images and websites that the author had experienced during their life. Despite the requirement for government in Australia to ensure…
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