Buzz Archives for December 2002
Happy New Year!
Philosopher Bertrand Russell said that "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." For web designers and developers, it's been browser wars that have made our lives very difficult. In some ways, those difficulties have sent less committed web creators running into the night. Those of us ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in WaSP Announcement
- Counting Down One More Time On W3C Patent Policy
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Tomorrow is the deadline for the Call For Comments phase of the latest World Wide Web Consortium Patent Policy Working Draft. Needless to say, this version - based on royalty-free licensing - is perceived as more agreeable than its predecessor, which was based on a reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing model.
By Ben Henick | Filed in Web Standards (general)
- Dear Web Developers: Browser Sniffing is Stupid
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...especially if you do it poorly, basing decisions on user agent strings and assumed capabilities, rather than on actual capabilities. Two alert readers sent in sad examples of this in action just this week. First, the recently redesigned HotBot, which does make a tremendous effort to support standards and provide ...
By Steven Champeon | Filed in Browsers
- The Lifecycle of Accessibility
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evolt has just published a fine article by Italian Web developer Antonio Volpon, discussing the lifecycle of Web accessibility, a refreshing change from the simplistic advice to just add alt attributes to your images. Volpon talks about the phases all Web sites go through, and in the tradition of Mark ...
By Steven Champeon | Filed in Accessibility
- Is there a draft in here?
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The third XHTML 2.0 Working Draft was published yesterday. It is largely a corrective release, fixing some problems that were introduced in the second Working Draft, which was made public last week. As the W3C points out, XHTML 2.0 is a relative of the Web's familiar publishing languages, HTML 4 and ...
By Porter Glendinning | Filed in W3C/Standards Documentation, HTML/XHTML
- Opening Day
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Opera Software's "Open the Web" project asks Opera users to contact the owners of sites that fail in their browser or deny them entrance. "Let them know you would like to see the site work with all browsers, including Opera." If you're developing a site and are considering refusing access ...
By Porter Glendinning | Filed in Browsers
- Getting the Last Word
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Web standards gets the last word in an article written by Grant Butler for Globe Technology News. While best for those readers with a general rather than deep awareness of web standards, the article, All Browser Code Not Created Equal, is noteworthy because it explains in easy terms some ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Web Standards (general)
- WaSP Asks the W3C
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In an effort to assist developers and designers in understanding detailed issues when working with web standards, WaSP and the W3C kick off a new project today. The project, "WaSP Asks the W3C" involves WaSP Steering Committee members culling questions from supporters and asking members of the W3C's Quality Assurance ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in WaSP Asks the W3C
- W3C Does CSS
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With its newly redesigned home page, the W3C tossed any remaining table layouts out the window and committed completely to CSS for page layout. The new home page is in general written for newer, standards-compliant user agents in XHTML 1.0 strict. Check out the W3C's updated look.
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in CSS
- Take Two
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Mozilla 1.2.1 was released yesterday. This version addresses a bug introduced in the 1.2 release that, among other things, was causing problems for sites using document.write() calls to generate page content.
By Porter Glendinning | Filed in Browsers
- Another Hall-of-Shame Entry
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Check out Aventis - but only if you're running IE6 or Netscape 7. Their challenge, they say is life; on the evidence the challenges include basic standards citizenship. On a sidenote, once you do get into this site, the baroque menu structure is a good argument for some of the ...
By Tim Bray | Filed in Web Standards (general)
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Recent Buzz
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)