Shaun Mccran

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Web Accessibility 101 - What is it, and why do it?

In my developer life I've encountered many different clients who have a multitude of requirements for their web projects. One that is occuring more frequently is 'Accessibility'. Over the past year or so I've had to really delve into what this means for a website, and how it affects IT projects.

This is the first of a series of articles relating to Web Accessibility, breaking down how I understand each aspect of it, including things like best practice coding, testing, what your mark-up really tells impaired users and the general theory behind creating Accessible content. I'll also try and point out any tips I've uncovered to try and smooth out the, sometimes rock, path to validating a site as Accessibly compliant.

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Adobe Flash / AIR large memory footprints on Android platforms

The Android market place is growing in popularity all the time, but does its rapid growth bring with it other issues about development best practices, and what sort of considerations should developers take into account when developing for mobile platforms.

This article examines how much memory footprint Adobe software needs to run on the Android platform, and the issue that arises because of it.

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What does the ANT message - 'Files was unexpected at this time' mean?

If you run an ANT installation and see the error message:

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1Files was unexpected at this time.

Or something similar you have probably installed ANT into a directory with a space in it. The default path when installing is "c:\program files\ant", but it's a lot more useful to install it into a more base directory, such as "c:\ant".

You cannot set your ANT_HOME to a directory with spaces or special characters in it, unless you use a windows compatibly format, such as:

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1ANT_HOME=c:\progra~1\ant

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2011

JQuery scrolling within a Div

Ever wanted to have your page content scroll based on user interaction? In this article I'll show you how to create a simple JQuery scrollable area that will allow users to click on 'next' style links to view more information. I put this together as most of the JQuery scrolling articles out there deal with scrolling the entire page, but I just want to scroll inside a defined div element.

There is a demo of this here: JQuery scrolling within a Div

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