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Notes | Web Directions

Mark Pesce – You-biquity

• In: notes
• By: Andrew
• September 29th, 2006

Virtual reality isn’t the television of the future, it is the telephone of the future Background We’re in a time and place where anything is possible; much like at the birth of the World Wide Web We are at least 98% identical to chimpanzees. We have now found the gene that gives us ...

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Derek Featherstone - Designing for Accessibility

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• By: Andrew
• September 29th, 2006

Screen magnifiers make graphic text blurry, but alt attributes still render as proper text If we’re not writing scripts to suppress the right click menu, perhaps we should avoid suppressing the showing of alt text on images in IE Square brackets are often used to separate links to different document formats; when ...

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Jeremy Keith - Progressive Enhancement with Hijax

• In: notes
• By: Andrew
• September 29th, 2006

Public health warning – there will be code! Taking notes on a code-heavy presentation is a difficult challenge; I strongly recommend you grab Jeremy’s presentation slides to accompany these notes. AJAX is often treated as all or nothing technology, much like plugins – either you have it, or you don’t. Ideally ...

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Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams - Web APIs and Mashups, work you don’t have to do

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• By: Andrew
• September 29th, 2006

MP3 of presentation (to come) Transcript (to come) Presentation slides Session description LiveBlog post About Cameron Adams and Kevin Yank Presentation slides Session description Adding JavaScript to your portfolio used to mean more work. Thanks to the wide range of APIs springing up from ...

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Cheryl Lead and Ben Buchanan - Moving your Organization to Web Standards

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• By: Andrew
• September 29th, 2006

Cheryl’s experience with Virgin Money I’m going to save the world by making my company go to web standards - Cheryl Lead Used numbers to sell the idea X more applicants if we make it accessible 400,000 legally blind web users in the UK. Tesco launched Tesco Access and made 13 million pounds ...

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Andy Clarke - Inspired design

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• By: Andrew
• September 29th, 2006

I’m not going to talk about CSS today, I’m hardly going to mention standards Art is design without compromise - Jeffrey Veen Limitations of what we do: Environmental – inflexibility of 2D screen; Materials – limitations of CSS et all; Medium – poor support in older browsers; Ourselves – unlearning what we ...

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Molly Holzschlag - The New Professionalism

• In: notes
• By: Andrew
• September 29th, 2006

Vast chasm between what consumers understand the web to be and what is required of us to build the web. Mum doesn’t need to know XML, XHTML et all to get online, post photos, have a blog. This is fantastic and needs to remain. The chasm has gotten worse since the early ...

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Derek Featherstone – Accessibility 2.0, Where do we go from here?

• In: notes
• By: Andrew
• September 28th, 2006

where are we right now Checklist syndrome – Section 508, WCAG, IBM Web Accessibility. These lead to a mindset of compliance over anything else. Accessibility is not just a technical endeavour or a quality assurance process. In reality accessibility is about removing barriers; it is personal. Derek demonstrates a ‘typical’ search bar ...

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Microformats - John Allsopp

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• By: Andrew
• September 28th, 2006

How can technology make people’s lives better? John has a 10 month old daughter; he doesn’t get out much. He wants to see a movie, but what good movies are out right now? Centralized solutions - Someone owns this data, we have to trust them not to be biased. Search – 38,000,000 results ...

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Dave Greiner and Ben Richardson - What We Learnt Building Campaign Monitor

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• By: Andrew
• September 28th, 2006

Background started IT firm ‘Switch IT’ during the first web bubble 2003-2004 approached by more customers to send bulk email Always something missing from existing applications – the seed of idea is planted Took a few hours per day for 6 months to have a go at building their dream email campaign system Designed ...

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