A big congratulations to long time Web Directions supporters, browser developers Opera. 15 years old today. (if you youngsters want a taste of the web in early 1994, or we old timers want to relive the glory days of animated gifs and more (sadly no evidence of the blink tag)) visit their home page today. […]
Many in the Australian Web industry (and beyond), particularly Web Directions attendees will know of Dmitry Baranovskiy, and in particular his fantastic Raphaël JavaScript Graphics Library. Via the excellent Ajaxian site, it’s exciting to learn that Blackberry is using Raphaël for a new, highly interactive and slick new site. In addition, the Washington post also […]
Many web folks are probably keeping one eye on HTML5, but it can be difficult, with a great many parallel developments. We are all likely aware of some of the new elements and semantics like , , and so on, but maybe less so of some more low level aspects of the project like client […]
Regular readers will know the issue of embeddable/linkable fonts for the web is more than a passing interest here at Web Directions. Today, font designer Tal Leming talks about the issues from the perspective of folks who design typefaces, while Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Type designer David Berlow from a similar perspective. There’s little doubt the […]
Christian Heilmann, JavaScript and web dev guru who we are bringing out for the roadshow next week in Melbourne and Sydney, is also speaking at Yahoo’s offices in Sydney next Wednesday. So if you are keen to hear him, simply RSVP.
For those of our readers in Japan, Web Directions Express, along with HTML5 and CSS3 workshops by me, John Allsopp, will be on in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, in mid May. The workshops and evening events are in English, translated into Japanese. Details can be found at our Web Directions East site.
This year’s Web Directions Roadshow, featuring fantastic full day workshops from local and international experts Andy Clarke (Web Design) Brian Fling (Mobile web design and development) Grant Young (Social Media Strategy) Indi Young (Information Architecture) Christian Heilmann (JavaScript and Ajax) Lisa Herrod (User Testing) in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. If you’ve not yet booked, we’ve […]
With far less fanfare than it merits, the Web Standards Project recently launched their truly amazing “Interact” web education project, and first stage of their detailed curriculum for educating web professionals. Frankly, it’s impossible to convey the amount and quality of work that the team has put into it. If you’ve the remotest interest in […]
In the first of what we hope will be a new, occasional series at Web Directions, we speak with PEte LePage Product Manager, Internet Explorer, Developer Division about their goals with IE8, compatibility mode, with IE7 emulation in IE8 is identical to IE7 and more about the browser. Thanks to PEte for his detailed responses. […]
Web Directions continues to push the envelop of technology use at our conferences. From our own social networking applications like web connections, to unique visualizations of twitter and flickr traffic, bluetooth video messages from speakers and attendees and much more, we are at the forefront of innovation. So, Web Directions South 2009, we are excited […]
At Web Directions North, the highly talented Nicole Sullivan debuted her “OOCSS” concept, to much interest. Yahoo Developer Network video recorded a number of the sessions, including Nicole’s. Well have the podcast, and transcript courtesy of Opera Software, up and running soon, but for now, take a look at the video, take a look at […]
For folks in Melbourne, remember the upcoming Ignite Web, April 1st, from 5.30pm at The Apartment, 401 Lt Bourke Street, Melbourne It’s free, with some drinks on us, Web Directions, and a baker’s dozen of presentations on CSS, HTTP, WCAG2, Agile, and much more, from folks like Kevin Yank, Mark Mansour, Mark Nottingham, and Alice […]
With the release of IE8 seemingly imminent, and with many developers still not testing their sites with IE8, the IE team have just posted details of how IE8’s compatibility mode is not necessarily identical to IE7 We strive to make Compatibility View behave as much like IE7 as possible, but we do make exceptions. Many […]
If you came to Web Directions South last year, or followed online, you would have trouble missing the fantastic t shirts our fine friends and great supporters over at Molt:n put together as give aways. Well, you can now get your own (and they even have kids sizes) from their new online store. Wear your […]
The excellent folks at Yahoo Developer Network were out in force at Web Directions North, and among other things, Christian Heilmann (who’ll be running Ajax and JavaScript workshops for us in Sydney and Melbourne in April) interviewed various people in attendance, asking them about how the current economic climate will impact web technologies and the […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
