A significant focus for us at Web Directions North will be educating the next generation of web professionals. It’s clear from many conversations we’ve had with those in the industry, recent graduates, employers, and others, that on the whole, the education systems world wide simply aren’t preparing people for the needs of the industry. Announcing […]
Well, at least (for now) it’s not users, but news today via the Sydney Morning Herald that Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), the histrionically named consortium of Australian Film and Television companies such as Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Disney and the Seven Network, has […]
Yes, like all of you out there, I use Facebook. But so many of the things it does annoys me (and worse). Here’s a perfect example. I’ve been using Facebook to message a small number of folks I’ve messaged in the past about various professional matters. Sadly, the send mechanism simply wasn’t working. In fact, […]
HTML5 is big. It contains multitudes. It’s very much a work in progress. One important milestone in that process occurred today, with the publication of the first draft of the HTML5 Language first draft, titled, perhaps a little confusingly “HTML: The Markup Language” This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML vocabulary. It […]
Via John Resig, a brand new control concept (and implementation using JQuery), for picking the time. At first glance, it seems far more efficient than popup menus for hours and minutes, and more adapted to a mouse driven interface than the iPhones nifty time chooser. Is a new UI paradigm born?
Following up the last post on Microsoft’s Oomph and microformats toolkit, Michael “Delicate Genius” Kordahi has a video interview with the brains behind Oomph. Check it out.
We’re just wrapping up the workshops at our first ever Web Directions in Tokyo, and a great event it has been. Events like Web Directions aren’t at all common here, and despite I think some skepticism, turnout was fantastic, and the response by those involved who I’ve spoken with has been extremely positive. To get […]
Bruce Lawson, and Opera Software, recently interviewed us about Scroll and the conferences. For those interested in knowing a little more about the conference, or the magazine, there’s quite a bit of detail there. In particular for those interested in the conferences, we tried to go into a little of detail about what is most […]
Nearly 3 years ago, after yet another rip off of our site design (I’ve lost count of the number of times people have ripped our design, a lot of our content (in one case submitting it to a notable publisher, and being only days away from being published as a book!)) we started a Flickr […]
We’ve just launched the site and registrations for Web Directions North 09 – to be held in Denver Colorado in the first week of February. We’ve got an amazing lineup of experts, sessions and workshops, – check out all the details at the site. This year for the first time we’ll be holding Ed Directions […]
[Update 1] A couple of months back, I surveyed the scene regarding a long cherished dream of web designers and developers – font linking and embedding. [Update 2] Opera 10, and Firefox 3.1 now support linking to TrueType and OpenType (but not EOT) in currently shipping alphas or betas. A short while ago, Mozilla announced […]
Unless one lives under a rock, or is hiking in Bhutan, the current chaotic and clearly difficult state of the world economy will have not escaped attention. So, Google’s recently reported 30% year on year increase in revenues is something of a glimmer of positive news at least in the online industry. For all its […]
Via Ars Technica, news of a survey by Opera Software, long time supporters of Web Directions, makers of fine browsers, and strong advocates for an open, standards based web, that finds, to probably no one’s surprise, that the vast majority of the web is not standards based. The good news is that this is up […]
So, some while back I wrote quite scathingly about native iPhone apps. I still stand by what I wrote there – but that hasn’t stopped me downloading some apps, and even paying for a couple. But one really stands out, and I bought it this morning, sight unseen, less than a minute after learning about […]
Those of us who’ve been round online a while will have seen at least one, and probably several occasions where large organisation starts blog/forum/online community, then proceeds to try hamfistedly to control the conversation, whether by deleting adverse comments, stacking the community with “sock puppets” (community members who are employees, or otherwise associated with the […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
