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, General, Validation, Web Standards (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 Adobe 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, DOM Scripting TF
- 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 Acid2, Action, 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, DOM Scripting TF
- 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, Education, Training
- 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, Education TF
- 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 Accessibility, DOM, DOM Scripting TF
- 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 Browsers, Microsoft TF
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Six New Courses Added to the InterACT Curriculum
By Aarron Walter | March 17th, 2010
Today, six more essential courses join the WaSP InterACT curriculum to help schools prepare their students for a career working on the Web.
It was just one year ago that The WaSP released its open curriculum project InterACT designed to help educators roll web standards and industry best practices into their courses. InterACT debuted at SxSWi 2009 with eleven courses created by a host of veteran educators and industry pros. Today, six more essential courses (that’s seventeen courses in total now if you’re counting) join our living curriculum to help schools prepare their students for a career working on the Web. Continue reading Six New Courses Added to the InterACT Curriculum
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