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.
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 […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
