2009 July | Web Directions

News from July 2009

Memories and articles from back in the day

XHTML2 is dead, long live HTML5

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 3, 2009

The W3 has announced today that the XHTML 2 working group will not be rechartered after its current charter expires at the end of 2009.

In many respects, this is not unexpected, and given the direction HTML5, and browsers have been taking, XHTML2 was looking like an increasingly theoretical, however … Read more »

Scott Berkun “calls BS on Social Media”

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 1, 2009

Scott Berkun, Web Directions 2007 keynote speaker, has a detailed post at his site “calling BS on social media”. Scott’s argument is not that all social media is bad, but much more nuanced (despite the provocative title).

Well worth a read (as is pretty much everything Scott writes).

Paypal Australia Developer days in July

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 1, 2009

If you need to add payment options to your sites, or those of your clients, there are many different ways of doing so. At Web Directions we know because over the years we’ve probably tried just about every way. Different solutions obviously have their particular strengths and weaknesses.

One of … Read more »

Firefox 3.5 released

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 1, 2009

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5, after the recently releases of Safari 4, and Internet Explorer 8, the third major browser release this year. With Opera 10 in beta, we should almost certainly see all four major browsers significantly upgraded in 2009.

For developers, like Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 is a … Read more »

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