2009 June | Web Directions

News from June 2009

Memories and articles from back in the day

Sydney UPA Chapter’s 2nd Birthday Celebration - We’re sponsoring!

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• June 19, 2009

On Wednesday July 1 at 6.00 there’s three very good reasons to come along to the Sydney Usability Professionals Association’s 2nd birthday party. Firstly, you’ll get to see a great … Read more »

WDS09 Day 1 closing keynote: Cameron Adams

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• June 17, 2009

I actually got a little teary just then when I posted this at the site (not something I normally do while cruising around my Wordpress admin): the day 1 closing keynote at Web Directions South 2009 will be my good friend, Cameron Adams, talking … Read more »

The incomparable PPK on the current state of Internet Explorer

• In: Blog
• By: John
• June 17, 2009

Peter-Paul Koch, curator of “Quirksmode”, has contributed just about as much as anyone to our understanding of browsers, and their quirks, bugs, strengths and weaknesses.

He’s just published his “State of the Browsers - IE Edition”, where he takes a look not at technology, but current market share, and … Read more »

July 24 Web Standards Group Canberra meeting

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• June 17, 2009

Web Directions will be sponsoring the next Canberra Web Standards Group Meeting, to be held on July 24, 2.30 to 4.30 at the NLA Theatre. Come along for the chance to win a ticket to Web Directions South 2009, and to hear a couple of excellent presentations.

• Simon Pascal Klein - … Read more »

  InfoWorld on HTML5

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 17, 2009

  Usually when you see the adjective “killer” in a tech related story (except about robots I guess), you know you are in for a good dose of hype. Countless stories on Google-killers, iPhone killers and so on have seen to that.

  InfoWorld has a quite detailed story on HTML5, which … Read more »

  The peer to peer web with Opera Unite

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 16, 2009

  For a few days now Opera software have been promising to reinvent teh interwebs.

  Well, the day has arrived, in for the form of Opera Unite. Unite puts a web server inside every (opera) browser - challenging the traditional “client server” model of the web. As Chris Mills … Read more »

  Modal web interfaces

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 15, 2009

  Damien Buckley, from Propellor Global, winners of last year’s McFarlane Prize, has some thoughts about the increasingly discussed issue of modality in web design (think lightboxes, registration forms and the like). Damien McCormack, from Vision Australia, one of the speakers at Web Directions South … Read more »

  Loyalty discount extended by 1 week - ends June midnight 19

  • In: Blog
  • By: Maxine
  • June 11, 2009

  If you’ve been to one of our conferences or workshops in the past you should have received emails over the last month about the extra special loyalty discount we have for you for Web Directions South this year. Just $750 - an absolute bargain for what … Read more »

  Web Directions South 2009 - Register now, pay later

  • In: Blog
  • By: Maxine
  • June 9, 2009

  With the cut off date for early bird pricing for Web Directions South this year fast approaching, as always, I get a lot of emails about when payment for tickets can be made. The answer is, we’re pretty flexible on this, and, for a start, it’s … Read more »

  The leading edge of Web Design

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 9, 2009

  In the leadup to the release of Firefox 3.5, hacks.mozilla.org are publishing dozens of articles show[ing] what’s possible at the edges of web technology.

  Firefox 3.5 implements all kinds of HTML5 and CSS3 features, many also implemented in Opera and Safari, so much of what they’ll cover is far … Read more »

  The state of open video on the web

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 7, 2009

  Ars Technica has a great roundup of where open video, the HTML5 video element, and open codecs like Ogg are at today, in browsers, and in use on the web. An excellent primer.

  Happy Anniversary Mozilla (1.0)

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 6, 2009

  Via Wired, today (US time) is the 7th anniversary of the release of Mozilla 1.0.

  While Firefox was still a couple of years off, the release of version 1.0 of the Mozilla browser was a big milestone for open source software, and the web.

  The future of development? Palm’s web technology grounded Pre launches next week

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 5, 2009

  We’ve mentioned Palm’s Pre a couple of times here since it was announced in January this year.

  Our interest is simple - the way you develop for the Pre and its new webOS is to use CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Now, this was the way Apple … Read more »

  Adobe BrowserLab - in the footsteps of BrowserCam and BrowserShots

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 4, 2009

  For years, developers who needed to ensure their sites worked in a broad range of browsers had a couple of choices.

  First was to run numerous browsers (and likely operating systems) for testing. Far from fun.

  Some year ago, BrowserCam started making life much more pleasant, by offering this service over … Read more »

  Opera 10 beta released

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 4, 2009

  Opera Software has today released beta 1 of Opera 10. Opera’s support of CSS 3 in alphas of 10 has been excellent (most selectors, text-shadow, opacity and more), and this beta now sports a new interface by Jon Hicks.

  Shaping up as a huge year for browsers - with … Read more »

  Announcing Style Master 5 for the Mac, from the folks at Web Directions

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 3, 2009

  The reason for the existence of Web Directions is more or less CSS. But the story starts a long long time before Web Directions was ever dreamt of. And a big part of that story is Style Master, the Mac and Windows CSS development software Maxine and I have … Read more »

  Exploring CSS 3

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 3, 2009

  In our other lives, Maxine and I run westciv - and have done for 15 years or more.

  Westciv develops tools like Style Master, training courses, and a heap of other things to help web designers and developers.

  We’ve just released a number of free web based tools … Read more »

  Web Directions speakers on Twitter

  • In: Blog
  • By: Maxine
  • June 2, 2009

  As you might expect, just about everyone speaking at Web Directions South this year can be found on Twitter - no surprises there. If you’re planning on coming along to the conference in October, be sure to say hi to the people below, maybe give them … Read more »

  BarCamp Sydney #5 coming late June

  • In: Blog
  • By: John
  • June 1, 2009

  For fans of BarCamp (and indeed folks who’ve never even heard of them), Sydney’s 5th BarCamp is coming up on June 27th at the Australian Technology Park (a great venue!)

  So, mark it in your diaries and get ready to participate.

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