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W3C Offers Online Training Course: Mobile Best Practices
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.
By Holly Marie Koltz | May 4th, 2008
- WCAG 2 now “candidate recommendation”
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The W3C announced today that WCAG2 is now a candidate recommendation and is likely to be "live" by the end of the year. The W3C says Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out ...
By Bruce Lawson | April 30th, 2008
- This is your mobile device on Acid
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The W3C's Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group have just announced a new suite of tests for mobile devices. In the spirit of the Acid tests, the test results are returned in an easily grokable visual manner—the green squares are desirable, the red squares mean a feature isn't yet supported. The ...
By Jeremy Keith | April 16th, 2008
- Annual Public WaSP Meeting at SXSW
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All SXSW Interactive attendees are welcome to attend WaSP's annual public meeting which will be held tomorrow, Monday, March 10. The session runs from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Central Daylight Time) and will be held in room 19AB (Level 4). Everyone is welcome to join our Meebo chat as ...
By Kimberly Blessing | March 9th, 2008
- Street Team: Make Your Mark
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The WaSP Street Team launches its first community project: bookmarks which you can place in libraries, schools, and bookstores to help signal to readers that the material is out of date.
By Glenda Sims | March 8th, 2008
- Acid3: Putting Browser Makers on Notice, Again.
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It's been three years since we told browser makes that we want to see them smile, but now we wanna hold their hand. Acid3 goes beyond the CSS tests implemented by Acid2 and tests a browser's DOM Scripting capability, as well as continuing to probe visual rendering of CSS, SVG and ...
By Drew McLellan | March 3rd, 2008
- Yahoo! UK & Ireland TV Listings site relaunches, chock full of standards
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While it's become much more common than, say, a couple years ago, it still deserves mention whenever a high-profile website relaunches with exemplary web development practices. Such is the case with the Yahoo! UK & Ireland TV Listings site, which this past week relaunched with some of the leanest and ...
By Faruk Ateş | March 1st, 2008
- WaSP Round Table: IE8’s Default Version Targeting Behavior
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One week ago, several WaSP members took the time to have a virtual sit-down with Chris Wilson of Microsoft to talk about IE8’s proposed default behavior of having to opt-in for the browser’s new standards mode.
By Aaron Gustafson | February 24th, 2008
- DOM Scripting: A Web Standard
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Following @media 2005 — the first Web Standards conference in Europe — a group of front-end coders gathered in a pub in London to discuss JavaScript. JavaScript had a problem. Its reputation was tarnished, to say the least. The common perception of client-side scripting was frozen in the late '90s ...
By Jeremy Keith | February 20th, 2008
- Hug your bike, drink a beer and discuss a browser
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March is coming up and for most people in the web standards community, that means at least one thing: SXSW! The Web Standards Project will be present again this year, with our annual meeting (held on Monday the 10th, exact details to follow soon). Because there's so much going on in ...
By Faruk Ateş | February 5th, 2008
- Microsoft’s Version Targeting Proposal
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Over at A List Apart today is Aaron Gustafson's article Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8, introducing a controversial proposal from Microsoft that developers should start locking their pages into set browser versions. Although members of the WaSP Microsoft Task Force were very much involved in this proposal, it ...
By Drew McLellan | January 22nd, 2008
- Opera complains to Europe over IE lock-in
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Opera Chief Technology Officer and co-inventor of CSS, Håkon Wium Lie has written an open letter to the Web community explaining the reasons that Opera has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Union to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer and to unbundle Internet ...
By Bruce Lawson | December 13th, 2007
- The Email Standards Project
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We all know that email clients aren’t consistent in their support of Web standards. Crafting an HTML email that renders correctly on most email clients is a delicate process which typically involves extra coding and a lot of guesswork. Up until now, we’ve begrudgingly accepted life this way… but a new effort aims to change that!
By Kimberly Blessing | November 28th, 2007
- Wear the Blue Beanie with Pride
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In honor of Jeffrey Zeldman’s blue beanie on the cover of his classic book, Monday, November 26th is blue beanie day. You can participate and share the Web standards benefits with everyone!
By Stephanie Sullivan | November 23rd, 2007
- Business Week: Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards
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This week, Business Week has published a Special Report on WASP co-founder Jeffrey Zeldman.
By Andy Clarke | August 7th, 2007
- Obstacles to Accessible Flash
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Adobe Flash can often get a bad rap from the standards community, but the reality is that there are many situations where Flash is the most appropriate tool for the job. As well as just being the best technology for some applications, the Flash Player also enjoys near ubiquity in ...
By Drew McLellan | August 6th, 2007
- Education Task Force Curriculum Survey
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The Web Standards Project Education Task Force has created a curriculum survey and seeks input from educational professionals.
By Rob Dickerson | June 13th, 2007
- A review of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, May 2007 Working Draft
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In last month's Interview with Judy Brewer on WCAG 2.0, we read that:WCAG 2.0 went through several Public Working Drafts in recent years, and a Last Call Working Draft in 2006. Each Working Draft was sent out for public review — altogether to hundreds of individuals, organizations, and lists around ...
By Patrick Lauke | June 11th, 2007
- Current browsers and the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
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In web accessibility, you’ll often hear emphasis being placed on the duty of web authors to create accessible content. However, this is only one part of the web accessibility equation.One that has been particularly close to me, or rather one that has provided me with a lot of opportunity to ...
By Patrick Lauke | May 20th, 2007
- Call for Review: Updated WCAG 2.0 Working Draft
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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) invites you to comment on an updated draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0), published on 17 May 2007. WCAG 2.0 addresses accessibility of Web content for people with disabilities.The updated WCAG 2.0 Public Working Draft incorporates changes ...
By Patrick Lauke | May 17th, 2007
- Browser, Standards and Interop Summit in Paris
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The XTech 2007 conference is taking place at the Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel in Paris next week from the 15th to the 18th of May. On the first day of the conference, Molly and Edd have organised the first annual Browser, Standards and Interop Summit to run all day in parallel ...
By Jeremy Keith | May 11th, 2007
- What’s happening with WCAG 2.0?
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Following a conversation with Judy Brewer from the W3C back in February, Jared Smith had the chance to interview her and submit some probing questions about what's happening with WCAG 2.0. Thanks Judy...and nice one Jared! See the interview with Judy Brewer on WCAG 2.0 in our WaSP Asks the ...
By Patrick Lauke | May 5th, 2007
- The Web Standards Documentary Project
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Aarron Walter, a faculty member of The Art Institute of Atlanta, launches The Web Standards Documentary Project.
By Rob Dickerson | April 20th, 2007
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) at ALA
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WaSP ILG member Martin Kliehm writes about the WAI draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) at A List Apart this week.
By Holly Marie Koltz | April 11th, 2007
- Amazon.com to enhance its accessibility
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I had to pinch myself to check it's not 1 April yet, because Amazon has always been an invalid, nested-table horror that was a poster-child for inaccessible images, but it seems to be true: Amazon.com, the leading online retailer, and the National Federation of the Blind have entered into a cooperation ...
By Bruce Lawson | March 31st, 2007
- WaSP needs you
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At the WaSP Annual Meeting at SXSW today, the Web Standards Project announced the WaSP Street Team. Based around the concept of a record company Street Team, the aim is to give you ways to get involved with web standards evangelism in your local area and in the places you ...
By Rachel Andrew | March 12th, 2007
- WaSP SXSW Annual Meeting Today
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Attend our annual SXSW meeting today! Hear our latest news and updates, ask our member questions, and find out more about a new and interesting project. Panel: WaSP Annual Meeting: Takin' it to the Street Room 8ABC Monday, March 12th 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
By Holly Marie Koltz | March 12th, 2007
- Petition the UK government for accessibility
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The newspapers are reporting that the UK government is worried because an online petition on the 10 Downing Street website has more than a million signatures protesting about transport policy. Which reminded me that there's a petition on that site set up by Ian Fenn after the fiasco of the ...
By Bruce Lawson | February 13th, 2007
- You’re looking swell, Molly
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All of you reading this post will agree with me that even given our chorus of voices, we can't sing enough praises about Molly for her energy and all the work she undertakes in what she strongly believes in. Nor can we match in harmony with her gift to communicate, ...
By Steph Troeth | January 30th, 2007
- Current and Upcoming CSS3 Support in Opera
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Here’s a look at CSS3 support and upcoming support in the Opera desktop browser.
By Molly E. Holzschlag | January 22nd, 2007
- The Dutch Embrace Web Standards
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According to Peter-Paul Koch the new Dutch accessibility laws are pretty sweeping and "go way beyond WCAG". Better yet, they read like a veritable blueprint for modern standards based web development: A few examples will show you where Dutch government accessibility is heading. As of 1 September last year, every website ...
By Dean Edwards | January 15th, 2007
- Reducing the pain of adopting a JavaScript library
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Why is it so difficult to adopt a new JavaScript library? Chris Heilmann offers library developers a path for improvement.
By Mike Davies | December 12th, 2006
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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.
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