2009 January | Web Directions

News from January 2009

Memories and articles from back in the day

Campaign Monitor - giving back

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• January 15th, 2009

Here at Web Directions we love Campaign Monitor. And what’s not to love? These guys have the best email marketing software for designers in the game, a slick new look and … Read more »

And now we play the waiting game

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• January 14th, 2009

Interesting article over at Web Worker Daily talking about the impact of the recession, at least from the US point of view.

Got me thinking about how we might get a handle on what is happening here. … Read more »

Web Directions North discount period ends Friday

• In: Blog
• By: John
• January 12th, 2009

Just a quick reminder that the discount period for Web Directions North 2009 ends this Friday, the 17th. Sign up before then for just $895 (including all taxes for):

• 24 practical, inspiring sessions by world leading experts
• fully catered breaks and lunches
• opening night reception and legendary closing night Media Temple … Read more »

  Scroll Number 1 - full articles now online

  • In: Blog
  • By: Maxine
  • January 12th, 2009

  How quickly a quarter of a year rolls by. When we launched Scroll during Web Directions South 08 we promised that all the articles would be published in full online 3 months after the print magazine was published, so, here they are.

  If you didn’t manage to get your hands on … Read more »

  Ten user experience myths debunked

  • In: Blog
  • By: Maxine
  • January 12th, 2009

  Whitney Hess has gathered together insights from a whole bunch of influential user experience practitioners and writers to debunk a few myths about what the profession of user experience actually is. She came up with The 10 Most Common Misconceptions About … Read more »

  Palm Pre and webOS

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • January 10th, 2009

  Palm has just announced their very interesting looking webOS, and Mojo web application framework. Unlike Apple, Palm are essentially making the way you develop for their devices the way you develop for the web.

  According to Palm, Mojo is:

  a new application framework based on the HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript standards … Read more »

  Bokeh Type Toy

  • In: Blog
  • By: Maxine
  • January 8th, 2009

  Another little distraction from the Man in Blue - the bokeh type experiment. Real real pretty.

  Oh, and in case you didn’t know already, bokeh is that effect you get in a photograph when you have a narrow depth of field, and some bright points of light and … Read more »

  Ignite Sydney, January 22 - Register now

  • In: Blog
  • By: Maxine
  • January 7th, 2009

  The second Sydney Ignite will be held at the Shelbourne Hotel on January 22. If you haven’t registered to attend already, get in now - it’s free! There are still a few places left, but these will go quickly.

  The idea of Ignite is simple - presenters stick to … Read more »

  John’s HTML5 article in A List Apart

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • January 7th, 2009

  There’s an article by me (John) in today’s A List Apart, on the direction that HTML5 is taking in regards to semantics. I have long thought the approach HTML5 takes to extended the semantics of HTML was problematic in several ways, being not backwards compatible with at the very … Read more »

  The State of the Web survey results

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • January 6th, 2009

  We’ve just published the report from our first (hopefully) annual “State of the Web” survey.

  Some surprising results from the survey include

  • Nearly half the respondents use Mac OS X Leopard, and over half use a non Windows Operating system. Windows XP still outweighs Windows Vista among these users by … Read more »

    Google deprecating support for IE6?

    • In: Blog
    • By: John
    • January 2nd, 2009

    TGDaily has an unattributed report asserting that

    Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service “twice as fast.” Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it … Read more »

    Google’s “Browser Security Handbook” published

    • In: Blog
    • By: John
    • January 2nd, 2009

    Michal Zalewski at Google has published a “Browser Security Handbook” the goal of which is

    to provide web application developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers with a one-stop reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers. Insufficient understanding of these often poorly-documented characteristics is a … Read more »

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