A quick note to let you all know that nominations for the first annual web industry awards, the national version of the long standing WA Web Industry Awards close in 1 week. There’ll be state by state awards, (with an event Tuesday 6th October in Sydney coinciding with Web Directions) with the final awards to […]
The debate over whether, and to what extent web sites should look the same in every browser continues to rage. To the bemusement of many it must be said. If you fall into the “yes” camp – then please go and read Andy’s latest presentation from @media. And if you are a “no” person, you’ll […]
Maxine and I are really excited to let you know that from 2010, @media, one of the great web conferences in the world will be presented by Web Directions. @media will stay right at home, in London, and feature the same mix of the world’s leading web designers, developers, and other web professionals. And we’ll […]
A detailed look at the accessibility features of Firefox 3.5.
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the Australian Federal Government’s fabled GroceryWatch website has been scrapped. We wrote critically about the dire accessibility of the site when it first launched. In the meantime, consumer advocacy magazine Choice had taken over the project from the government. What happened? There are of course several sides to […]
Personally, like other old web curmudgeons (OK so Dave Shea isn’t really old), I’m not a big fan of either sending or receiving HTML email. But, it’s a reality of life, and more importantly if something supports HTML, it should to the extent possible support modern web development best practices. Something that Outlook, the email […]
For all his myriad faults, he was a genius, and a strange broken symbol of our time. Via Kottke
Via Slattery’s Watch, news of the just launched Australian Federal Government’s “Government 2.0 Taskforce“, which (a wordpress blog no less!). From the site: Its work falls into two streams. The first relates to increasing the openness of government through making public sector information more widely available to promote transparency, innovation and value adding to government […]
Peter-Paul Koch, curator of “Quirksmode”, has contributed just about as much as anyone to our understanding of browsers, and their quirks, bugs, strengths and weaknesses. He’s just published his “State of the Browsers – IE Edition“, where he takes a look not at technology, but current market share, and the recent issues with the European […]
Usually when you see the adjective “killer” in a tech related story (except about robots I guess), you know you are in for a good dose of hype. Countless stories on Google-killers, iPhone killers and so on have seen to that. InfoWorld has a quite detailed story on HTML5, which while using the dreaded “kill” […]
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 […]
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.
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
