XML News from Monday, December 6, 2004

The Mozilla Project has posted the fifth alpha of Mozilla 1.8. New features in 1.8 include FTP uploads, improved junk mail filtering, better Eudora import, and an increase in the number of cookies that Mozilla can remember. It also makes various small user interface improvements, gives users the option to disable CSS gl;obally or on a per-page basis, and adds support for CSS quotes. Alpha 5 fixes a slew of bugs and enables support for CSS columns.


The W3C Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has posted a working draft of Implementation Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. "This document provides non-normative information to authoring tool developers who wish to satisfy the checkpoints of "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" [ATAG20]. It includes suggested techniques, sample strategies in deployed tools, and references to other accessibility resources (such as platform-specific software accessibility guidelines) that provide additional information on how a tool may satisfy each checkpoint."