Buzz Archives for May 2005
What’s that object, again?
A while ago, we asked the W3C: how do we go about including multimedia objects in Web documents in a backwards-compatible way? In the first of a two-part issue, the W3C gave us a little history lesson about the birth of multimedia inclusion in HTML documents. Now, in this long-awaited ...
By Steph Troeth | Filed in WaSP Asks the W3C
- Capgemini Goes Valid
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Valid, CSS-based redesigns have become almost routine around here, but now and again we see standards making their way into a quarter they haven't previously reached. So it is with the new Capgemini site. While large international consultancies are long on the expertise and experience needed to help megacorps, they're also ...
By Chris Kaminski | Filed in Web Standards (general)
- Ten Questions for Joe
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Ten Questions for Joe Clark is the latest (May 12, 2005) interview offering by The Web Standards Group. Joe Clark talks about fonts, "more" links, opening new windows, skip links, source order, titles, accessible PDFs, forms, data tables and more. In April, the group interviewed Jason Santa Maria on a variety of ...
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Web Standards (general)
- Practical Ajax
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Cameron Adams, the antipodeon man in blue, has written a nice hands-on guide to using Ajax. The article, over on SitePoint, is called Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting.
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, DOM
- CSS Reboot 2005
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May 1st. To be remembered for... Elvis Presley and Pricilla's wedding anniversary? (1967) Last British concert by Beatles? (1966) The first Batman comic published? (1939) Well yes, but also for the first CSS Reboot 2005. CSS Reboot will attempt to bring together web professionals who design with CSS and standards in mind to launch their ...
By Andy Clarke | Filed in Design
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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.
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