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We love to see you smile

Just ten days ago, Dean wrote here about Acid2: there has been no officially released browser that passes the test I'm thrilled to say that that's no longer the case — we have a winner! With today's release of Mac OS X 10.4.3, Apple's Safari RSS (version 2.0.2/416.12) is the first (publicly-released, ...

By Dori Smith | Filed in Acid2, Browsers

moo.fx Makes it Easy to Add Transition Effects

A small JavaScript library to add powerpoint or flash-like transition effects to web sites: moo.fx.

By Christian Heilmann | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, DOM

Debugging JavaScript with jsTrace

Aaron Gustafson gives us a very handy tool for debugging scripts: jsTrace.

By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, Authoring Tools, DOM

Spreading the Word

With the release of his new DOM Scripting book, I’ve been on a little talking spree around the Web.

By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, DOM

Opera 9, Acid2 and Web Forms 2.0

It seems the latest preview release of Opera comes pretty close to passing the Acid2 test. Apparently there is only one bug left to fix. After the initial announcement of the second acid test, a race began to become the first browser to pass it. Safari won by a streak and ...

By Dean Edwards | Filed in Browsers

… And the Winner Is …

We have a winner for the addEvent() recoding contest!

By Peter-Paul Koch | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, DOM

IEBlog: Clean up your CSS hacks

The IEBlog today issued a call to action, asking developers to help "clean up" CSS hacks that are failing in strict mode in IE7. Whether you're interested in helping the IE development team or not, consider this: a review of your code could help to clean out some bad CSS ...

By Kimberly Blessing | Filed in Browsers, CSS

Web Essentials 05

The Web Essentials 05 event has made available several audio and slide presentations of last week's keynote (by our own group leader Molly) and sessions at the WE05 PodCasts link. Links to other presentations may also be found listed at the program link. Session topics cover standards, ...

By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Web Standards (general)

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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)

More Buzz articles

Title Author
WCAG 2 now “candidate recommendation” Bruce Lawson
This is your mobile device on Acid Jeremy Keith
Showing Off My <body> and Loving It Christopher Schmitt
Acid3 Passed in 23 Days! Kimberly Blessing
New Initiative in Hyper-Localized Social Tagging Porter Glendinning

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