Buzz Archives for April 2006
A DOM Scripting Wishlist for Microsoft
Peter Paul Koch has kick-started a discussion called “IE 7 and JavaScript: what needs to be fixed?”
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, Browsers, DOM, Microsoft, Bugs
- Accessibility and UK small businesses
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Take a look at the latest study coming out of the United Kingdom examining the attitudes and perceptions of small business toward accessibility.
By Derek Featherstone | Filed in Accessibility, General
- The WaSP Café
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Kazuhito Kidachi, the WaSP liaison in Japan, has started a new series of events dubbed the "WaSP Café". It is a social gathering where people can chat about web standards and related topics while drinking a nice cup of coffee. As Kazuhito says, "Why coffee? Because to talk seriously, it's ...
By Faruk Ateş | Filed in Web Standards (general), WaSP Announcement, Outreach, General
- Accessibility TF Manifesto
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The ATF has put a lot of effort into looking at the world to analyse the issues standing in the way of broader accessibility for everyone. Having worked out the problems we face and what we are willing to tackle, we are now happy to present the Accessibility Task Force ...
By Matt May | Filed in Accessibility TF, Accessibility
- Tasty Bites for Standardistas
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John Oxton reveals some tasty web standards morsels for you to have a nibble on.
By Ian Lloyd | Filed in Web Standards (general)
- WaSP International Liaison Group
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With a growing interest around the world in Web standards, international relationships are becoming key. WaSP is seeking to create an International Liaison Group for the sharing of Web standards related information worldwide.
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Internationalization, Outreach, General
- Print-ready poster: separation in a nutshell
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Natalie Jost put together a print-ready poster, available as a PDF file, which describes the benefit of standards-friendly development techniques in a visual way. It's behind a link within the entry in question. Try it, you might like it. It's one of those "I wish I'd thought of that" ...
By Ben Henick | Filed in CSS, HTML/XHTML, DOM, Outreach
- Painless Node Creation with DOM Builder
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Dan Webb’s DOM Builder takes the finickiness out of standards-based markup generation.
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, Authoring Tools, DOM
- DOM Builder
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Now here’s a script we can get behind… Dan Webb’s DOM Builder combines the ease of innerHTML with the precision of DOM methods.
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM Scripting TF, DOM
- Notre Dame Web Group
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Lead Web developer Steve Smith and the University of Notre Dame Web Group tackle web standards and accessibility in original and exciting ways.
By Holly Marie Koltz | Filed in Education TF, Education, General
- Spiffy Markup?
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A new time-saving tool to create rounded corners constructed with CSS does the rounds - but is it really so spiffy?
By Ian Lloyd | Filed in CSS, Web Standards (general)
- Blogger - Can I get in please?
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How Blogger blocks users from getting past the front door when the browser is JavaScript-capable but is sitting behind script blocking firewalls - and how it’s not alone in making this mistake.
By Ian Lloyd | Filed in Accessibility, Web Standards (general)
- Show Us Yer White Bits!
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It’s almost April the 5th and time for the first CSS Naked Day
- Protecting the Children
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WaSP and PANIC announce new recommendation for Child-safe Hypertext Markup Language.
By Porter Glendinning | Filed in April Fools
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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)