Chris Hoffman’s
Outstanding Elephant

It’s pronounced “jay-kwosk”

I’ve begun working on an on-screen keyboard project using jQuery called, rather unoriginally, jQOSK. At this point it’s in the most preliminary of preliminary stages, and huge chunks of script appear and disappear from day to day, but don’t let that keep you from checking it out. I hope that when it is done it will be an attractive option for designers and developers who want to enhance accessibility for users who can’t use physical keyboards.

Posted on Wednesday, April 09, 2008

The New Site

This is the new incarnation of outstandingelephant.com. Not all of the links are working yet, but it’s all coming together bit by bit (here’s a link to jARIA if you’re looking for it). The site works fine in Firefox and Opera as far as I can tell. In IE7/Win resizing the text seems to do unpleasant things to the layout (IE not understanding max-width being the biggest culprit). That will be fixed eventually.

It’s all powered by Blogger, which has its. . . limitations, so I have to do some twisting and turning to get everything the way I want it. Someday I may switch to WordPress or even Mambo or Drupal, but for now I have the functionality I need.

Feel free to contact me with any comments or questions.

Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008