Posts for January, 2008

NZ Web Standards compliance for research.elabs [updated 02/04/2008]

January 25th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | 3 Comments »

openWolf validator logo We report on the process of achieving compliance with the New Zealand Government Web Standards for this site, including reports from the openWolf validator.

Mobile Web - a Nokia Resource

January 9th, 2008 by Matthew Ross | No Comments »

Nokia E90It is becoming ever more realistic to design web sites with mobile users in mind. Nokia provide a free testing resource where you can remote control a real phone through a java console.

Generating Excel Spreadsheets with Māori Macrons in PHP

January 9th, 2008 by Ewen Cumming | 6 Comments »

PHP LogoAfter recently working on an application to generate Microsoft Excel documents using a PHP script, I ran into trouble with the PEAR package “Spreadsheet Excel Writer” which didn’t correctly display UTF-8 characters (Māori macrons in this case). Here is a fix!