Web Directions comes to the northern hemisphere (the original Web Directions conference usually takes place in Australia). Speakers include web development wizards including Westciv’s John Allsop, journalist-web developer Adrian Holovaty, mobile consultant Kelly Goto, CSS god Tantek Çelik, designer Cameron Moll, CSS goddess Molly Holzschlag, and graphic design whiz Veerle Pieters. Expect some high-quality presentations [...]
[2 Oct 2006]
Four CSS bits and a request: does anyone know of a good tutorial or book for learning how to use Flash with video? In the short term, I want to build a Flash player. Long term, I want to become a Flash video demi-goddess. How to Use Different CSS Stylesheets for Different Browsers The article [...]
[11 Sep 2006]
Now that our presentation is over, Mir and I figured you may have some questions that we didn’t get to answer for you. Feel free to ask them here, or on Mir’s blog, and we’ll do our best to help. Also be sure to check out our slides, related bits, and Mir’s collection of CSS [...]
[28 Jul 2006]
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 W3C recommendations for developing mobile web content. [Via goto Mobile] Firefox releases 2.0 beta Lifehacker has FF2.0b1 screenshots. New features include the ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs, better RSS reading, a spell-checker, and support for SVG text. And speaking of Firefox, one study says its use is growing worldwide [...]
[13 Jul 2006]
Digital Web takes a holistic look at how to develop an internationalized, multi-lingual website. It focuses on back-end and template development as opposed to internationalizing mark-up. For more on internationalization, you can also check out the W3C Internationalization Activity group.
[6 Jun 2006]
Imagine my surprise, when (after getting called-out in the comments of a blog posting) the following code — with an XHTML 1.0 strict DOCTYPE no less — passed the W3C’s validation test: <p><b><i>howdy</i></b></p> ¿Que? So to the specification I go. Sure enough, there’s no mention of either the <b> or <i> tags being so much [...]
[1 Jun 2006]
I mentioned this briefly in the Atlanta PHP May meeting post. Structured blogging is an intiative to provide a standard format for blogging about particular forms of content. The idea is to make it easier to share particular bits of microcontent by publishing it in a consistent form. The Structured Blogging team has developed plugins [...]
[1 May 2006]
In case you missed it, Microsoft has changed the way ‘ActiveX’ content — including Flash and QuickTime — is embedded in web pages. With the change, a user will have to click once to activate an ActiveX control before interacting with it. Effectively, users will have to click twice on any link embedded in a [...]
[5 Apr 2006]
Ooh, and it’s got a lovely black-and-gold color scheme. … But er, you may have trouble accessing it. I’ve just been told that it’s not available to anyone outside of the Austin Convention Center IP address block.
[13 Mar 2006]
Here’s some ammo if you’re trying to persuade your company to adopt web standards: Moving towards a C S S -based layout by me. Tooting my own horn here The Way Forward with Web Standards by MACCAWS.
[6 Apr 2004]