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2008 December | Web Directions

Archive for December, 2008

Bert Bos summarizes the issues around Webfonts

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 6th, 2008

Bert Bos, co-inventor of CSS, has a detailed summary of the issues around font embedding and standardization from a couple of months back. Why so much on this of late here? We feel at web directions that this is a development ultimately as significant as the rise of CSS for ...

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Webfonts - an excellent article by Jon Tan

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 6th, 2008

If you want to get up to speed with the who, what, where how and when of Web fonts, this recent article by Jon Tan is the place to start.

Web fonts - great news with Opera 10 Alpha

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 5th, 2008

Opera had just announced an Alpha of Opera 10, with some excellent support for new and emerging standards, including one of my favorites, font linking. Currently, Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox 3.1, and now Opera 10 support font linking via the @font-face mechanism. Internet Explorer has in fact supported this feature ...

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Surface article in Desktop Magazine

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 4th, 2008

Matt Magain, from our media partners SitePoint, has an article in this month's Desktop Magazine (another Media Partner) about Microsoft Surface, along with an interview with Web Directions keynote speaker and chief Surface guy August de los Reyes (and a lovely person to boot). The full article ...

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UX Book Club

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• December 4th, 2008

This is a great idea - and indeed one that other disciplines in the web industry could think about. UX Book Club is a get-together in which people interested in the area of user experience come to discuss a book relevant to the discipline. Take a look at the ...

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Screen resolutions

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 4th, 2008

Ben Buchanan, Web Directions speaker and long time friend has a very detailed discussion of the issues around screen resolution. Long gone are the days where you could reasonably safely rely on a small number of possible screen resolutions. Now, we might be designing for screen sizes from 240x320 ...

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The State of the Web 2008 - a Survey of Web Designers and Developers

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 3rd, 2008

At Web Directions and Westciv, we've been strongly focussed on the standards based web, and best practices in web design and development for well over ten years. Over that period, we've seen the rise of CSS, along with the decline of presentational HTML. We've seen knowledge of issues around ...

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Web Directions North - “cyber-monday” super special

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 1st, 2008

For those on the edge of registering for the conference, here's something that might just help you make up your mind. For today (Monday December 1st) only, register for the conference, and we'll give you either a half day workshop of your choice or a day's skiing or boarding at Breckenridge (return ...

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Help stop the draconian and ignorant federal government proposed internet censorship regime

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 1st, 2008

We've not said anything as yet about the Australian Federal Government's draconian and ignorant mandatory internet censorship regime, in part due to a combination of incredulity and anger. But, luckily someone is on the case. Action group Getup has an online petition that you should sign, and get anyone ...

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