Buzz Archives for January 2006
IE7 Beta 2 Preview Available to the Public
Microsoft today made Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 PREVIEW available to the public. Along with the download, they've posted a Developer and Web Developer Checklist to help you evaluate your sites, as well as the browser. Time to get to work! Happy testing... and don't forget to submit your feedback.
By Kimberly Blessing | Filed in Browsers
- Web Standards in Small Organisations
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I don’t really make resolutions at new year, but perhaps if I did it should be this. To be more actively involved in the organisations I care about in making sure that they get solid advice about the web. Most of us likely have some kind of contact with a small ...
By Drew McLellan | Filed in Education
- getElementsByTagNames()
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getElementsByTagNames() returns elements with several tag names in the order they appear in the document.
By Peter-Paul Koch | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, W3C/Standards Documentation, DOM
- Another Failed Redesign: IEEE
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Oh the irony -- that a standards body should ignore standards in creating their new Web site! As a member of the IEEE, I couldn't help but laugh when I saw that the new IEEE Web site redesign was announced in an e-mail newsletter... along with another entry titled "Let's Not ...
By Kimberly Blessing | Filed in Web Standards (general)
- Failed Redesigns
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Joe Clark recently wrote about several Failed Redesigns. His post has such a classic WaSP tone, that I hope he doesn't mind that I quote a couple of paragraphs here. A failed redesign is a Web page created from scratch, or substantially updated, during the era of Web standards that ...
By Tantek Çelik | Filed in General
- Shorter DOMScripting via Cloning vs. Generating New Elements?
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Is cloning nodes quicker than generating new elements?
By Christian Heilmann | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, DOM
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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)