Friday December 19, 2008

Configuration Viewer - a new and very useful OpenOffice.org extension

My colleague from the NetBeans team (who happened to be my SEED mentee), just uploaded his new extension for OpenOffice.org.

It's the Configuration Viewer extension.

This useful extension lets you see all key/value pairs from your configuration - even those that are not accessible via the OpenOffice.org user interface. It distinguishes between configuration items stored in the shared configuration layer and the user's custom configuration. A little checkbox on the bottom of the dialog helps you for quickly identifying configuration items which are storade in the user's configuration layer. With the Export button you can export the currently displayed configuration items into a text file.

After installing the extension (which needs Java to run), you can find it behind a new menu item: "Tools / Configuration...".

If you think this is a useful extension, let Stan know via a comment - maybe he will then continue working on it, adding other cool stuff like editing the configuration items :)

Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Dec 19 2008, 05:20:36 PM CET ) Permalink Comments [0]

Friday December 12, 2008

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 finalized

WCAG 2.0 was published today as a final Web Standard "W3C Recommendation"!

This is great, since many people were waiting for that for a long time now. The first version of WCAG was published in 1999 - it mainly concentrated on HTML and absolutly didn't meet current requirements anymore. The old standard didn't allow scripting, so all Web 2.0 applications would violate that. Now scripting is not only accepted, but even included as techniques to enhance accessibility!

If you are interested in this topic (and as a web designer, author or developer you should care!), I think the best starting page is The WCAG 2.0 Documents.

Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Dec 12 2008, 05:46:21 PM CET ) Permalink Comments [0]