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Buzz Archives for November 2002

Not So Fast

Apparently the toothpick didn't quite come out clean, so they've stuck Mozilla 1.2 back into the oven and will pull it out again when it's 1.2.1.

By Porter Glendinning | Filed in Browsers

The Latest from the Lizard’s Lair

The hard-working developers at Mozilla.org released Mozilla 1.2 yesterday. This is the first stable release to include Type Ahead Find. For some time Internet Explorer's Macintosh users have been able to focus on text links by keying in their first few characters, an important accessibility feature that allows links to ...

By Porter Glendinning | Filed in Browsers

Upgrades to W3C Validator Are Now Live

The W3C Validation Service today released several improvements to their software. More information on the upgrade can be found at the validator's What's New page.

By Ben Henick | Filed in Validation

Scalable Vector Graphics Moving Right Along

The W3C has promoted both SVG 1.1 and the SVG Mobile Profiles Tiny & Basic to Proposed Recommendation status, and has also published the first Working Draft of SVG 1.2. In addition, a great set of tables has been published showing how 15 different SVG implementations fared when run ...

By Porter Glendinning | Filed in Web Standards (general)

Opera Rocks

The good people at Opera Software have been re-engineering the Opera web browser to play faster, look more fashionable, and to groove with DOM standards more effectively. They've been refining their licks for a while now, and this week are getting on stage to provide us with a sneak preview ...

By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Browsers

Another invalid relaunch fixed

The AltaVista search engine relaunched today with a new design, but the spare interface doesn’t use valid markup. No DOCTYPE, even. Sad. As Eric Meyer did with KPMG and Dylan Foley did with MSN, Trip Kirkpatrick has taken it upon himself to fix AltaVista’s markup, showing how easy it would ...

By Jeffrey Zeldman | Filed in Web Standards (general)

Get ready to Contribute

Today, Macromedia announced Macromedia Contribute, a new application that promises to make life easier for both standards-aware designers/developers and the clients who love them. Based on the Dreamweaver MX code engine, Contribute creates beautifully standards-compliant pages for people who both know nothing about markup and have no desire to learn ...

By Dori Smith | Filed in Authoring Tools

Valid XHTML + Flash

This site uses Flash. This site validates as XHTML.

By Jeffrey Zeldman | Filed in Web Standards (general), HTML/XHTML

Valid Approaches To Content Management

IN A WORLD...where legacy content and gargantuan management systems routinely churn out inaccessible, invalid HTML...the liveSTORYBOARD CMS is a taking a giant step in the right direction. Like many tools, liveSTORYBOARD offers WYSIWYG editing from the browser, but saves the input in an XML format, using an XSLT engine to ...

By Scott Andrew LePera | Filed in Web Standards (general)

AIFIA XHTML/CSS Site Launch

The folks at the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture understand the benefits of structured markup and logical separation of content from style - they've launched the AIFIA site with an attractive XHTML/CSS layout that degrades nicely in older and text-only browsers, and even throws Netscape 4 a little love. ...

By Scott Andrew LePera | Filed in Web Standards (general)

Fun with CSS

In his new article, Box of Tricks, Joe Gillespie shows how to create multiple link styles, fashion buttons using borders, and create CSS rollovers. A great article, especially because it demonstrates to visual designers the emerging power of CSS over table-based, graphic-heavy designs.

By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in CSS, Design

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W3C Offers Online Training Course: Mobile Best Practices

By Holly Marie Koltz | May 4th, 2008

The W3C Mobile Web Initiative is offering the online training course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices from May 26 - June 20, 2008. The course is free, registration is open, but limited.

This course is aimed at experienced Web developers and designers who are interested in learning to develop content for mobile Web access using W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices.

Participants will have access to lectures and assignments providing hands-on practical experience with using W3C’s mobile Web Best Practices. They will have direct access to W3C experts on this topic who are the instructors for this course. Participants will also be able to discuss and share experiences with their peers who are faced with the challenges of mobile Web design.

For more information about the course, instructors, topics, and to view a free sample course, visit Online Training Course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices

Thanks also go to Henny Swan for posting an entry about this on her site at Want to Get Your Content Mobile.

Update: Registration is full and now closed.

Filed in W3C/Standards Documentation, Web Standards (general), Training, Design, Mobile, Education, General | Comments (1)

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