Buzz Archives for March 2006
Government Web Site Failure - Is It So Shocking?
Report reveals poor pass rates for standards in UK government web sites.
By Ian Lloyd | Filed in Accessibility, Web Standards (general), Validation, General
- Microformat Extensions for Dreamweaver
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As part of our remit to encourage the use of web standards amongst the Dreamweaver community, the DWTF has produced a suite of extensions to help make working with Microformats easy.
By Drew McLellan | Filed in Dreamweaver TF, General
- Trying to explain the differences between DHTML and DOM scripting with an example
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A summary of the issues around DHTML, and the value behind DOM Scripting.
By Christian Heilmann | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, DOM
- Acid2 Supported in Opera One Year Later
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Opera 9 passes Acid2, next step for Opera is mobile, and preliminary mumblings about Acid3 have begun.
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Action, Acid2, General
- Browser Junkies, Get a New Fix
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Mozilla announce early alpha of Firefox 2, codenamed Bon Echo
- IE 7 Beta Preview 2 Out Now
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Microsoft announce release of IE 7 beta 2 after which no more CSS fixes will be addressed - this is as far as it goes for version 7.
- Dean Edwards Speaks
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Jonathan Snook interviews Dean Edwards.
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, DOM
- Accessibility First - A Novel Teaching Method
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Educator Brian Rosmaita proposes an ‘accessibility first’ approach for teaching web design.
By Ian Lloyd | Filed in Accessibility, Training, Education
- The Buzz is Black
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On March 13, 2006 at SxSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, WaSP unveils a redesigned site.
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in WaSP Announcement
- Queen's New Clothes
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WaSP eduTF interviews Tim Hannigan on Queen’s University’s conversion to Web standards.
By Steph Troeth | Filed in Education TF, Education
- First ATF F2F Meeting
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The ATF had its first chance to meet face-to-face during SxSW Interactive in Austin, Texas.
By Matt May | Filed in Accessibility TF
- Help Free the Web with WaSP
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We've stung, we've swarmed, we've buzzed. Sometimes we've failed to make our mark, other times we've been far more successful. But there's one thing that's certain, and that is as of Monday, March 13th, the Web Standards Project enters a new time in its history, opening the hive up ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in WaSP Announcement
- Cross-Browser Comparison of Scripting Libraries
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A scorecard of scripting libraries.
By Christian Heilmann | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, Accessibility, DOM
- Microsoft IE7 Progress: Sneak Preview of MIX06 Release
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I'm sitting here with Malarkey and Markus Mielke in Mandelieu, a beautiful town in the south of France. We're here attending the W3C Technical Plenary and Markus has been kind enough to give us a sneak preview of the IE7 release that's expected for the MIX06 event. We've been looking ...
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Microsoft TF, Browsers
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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)