For a few days now Opera software have been promising to reinvent teh interwebs. Well, the day has arrived, in for the form of Opera Unite. Unite puts a web server inside every (opera) browser – challenging the traditional “client server” model of the web. As Chris Mills from Opera puts it So what is […]
Damien Buckley, from Propellor Global, winners of last year’s McFarlane Prize, has some thoughts about the increasingly discussed issue of modality in web design (think lightboxes, registration forms and the like). Damien McCormack, from Vision Australia, one of the speakers at Web Directions South this year, weighs in with some thoughts on just how accessible […]
If you’ve been to one of our conferences or workshops in the past you should have received emails over the last month about the extra special loyalty discount we have for you for Web Directions South this year. Just $750 – an absolute bargain for what is going to be two amazing days this October […]
With the cut off date for early bird pricing for Web Directions South this year fast approaching, as always, I get a lot of emails about when payment for tickets can be made. The answer is, we’re pretty flexible on this, and, for a start, it’s certainly fine to register before June 30, and then […]
In the leadup to the release of Firefox 3.5, hacks.mozilla.org are publishing dozens of articles show[ing] what’s possible at the edges of web technology. Firefox 3.5 implements all kinds of HTML5 and CSS3 features, many also implemented in Opera and Safari, so much of what they’ll cover is far from simply proof of concept. Article […]
Ars Technica has a great roundup of where open video, the HTML5 video element, and open codecs like Ogg are at today, in browsers, and in use on the web. An excellent primer.
Via Wired, today (US time) is the 7th anniversary of the release of Mozilla 1.0. While Firefox was still a couple of years off, the release of version 1.0 of the Mozilla browser was a big milestone for open source software, and the web.
We’ve mentioned Palm’s Pre a couple of times here since it was announced in January this year. Our interest is simple – the way you develop for the Pre and its new webOS is to use CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Now, this was the way Apple initially announced you should develop applications for the iPhone, […]
For years, developers who needed to ensure their sites worked in a broad range of browsers had a couple of choices. First was to run numerous browsers (and likely operating systems) for testing. Far from fun. Some year ago, BrowserCam started making life much more pleasant, by offering this service over the web. Over time […]
Opera Software has today released beta 1 of Opera 10. Opera’s support of CSS 3 in alphas of 10 has been excellent (most selectors, text-shadow, opacity and more), and this beta now sports a new interface by Jon Hicks. Shaping up as a huge year for browsers – with all major browsers looking to have […]
The reason for the existence of Web Directions is more or less CSS. But the story starts a long long time before Web Directions was ever dreamt of. And a big part of that story is Style Master, the Mac and Windows CSS development software Maxine and I have been working on for well over […]
In our other lives, Maxine and I run westciv – and have done for 15 years or more. Westciv develops tools like Style Master, training courses, and a heap of other things to help web designers and developers. We’ve just released a number of free web based tools to help people explore some of the […]
As you might expect, just about everyone speaking at Web Directions South this year can be found on Twitter – no surprises there. If you’re planning on coming along to the conference in October, be sure to say hi to the people below, maybe give them a heads up about what you’re keen to hear […]
For fans of BarCamp (and indeed folks who’ve never even heard of them), Sydney’s 5th BarCamp is coming up on June 27th at the Australian Technology Park (a great venue!) So, mark it in your diaries and get ready to participate.
I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!
Ethan Marcotte Inventor of 'Responsive Web Design'
