Web Directions - Part 10

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Civility and the great (XHTM(5)2) debate (now in comic form)

• By: John
• July 10, 2009

Those following recent developments with HTML5 and XHTML2 might have noticed some concerns about the lack of civility, and adult communications by a number of folks associated with this whole currently rather heated issue. Kyle Weems, CSS Squirrel, and web cartoonist has succinctly captured the issue in the nicest possible … Read more »

CSS3 Reloaded — John Allsopp at Melbourne WSG meetup — July 20

• By: Maxine
• July 9, 2009

If you’re in Melbourne this July 20 there’s a whole bunch of really good reasons to go along to the WSG meeting at Loop Bar at 6.30pm.

Firstly, along with SitePoint, Web Directions is sponsoring, so, drinks and food are on us.

Secondly, … Read more »

Zero to hero with jQuery workshop — only one space left

• By: Maxine
• July 7, 2009

Just as they have with the main conference, numbers have also crept up fast with the workshops this year. So much so that Earle Castledine’s Zero to hero with jQuery workshop is about to sell out. There’s only one place left, so, if you’ve … Read more »

Web Directions South 2009 Early Bird pricing ends Friday

• By: Maxine
• July 7, 2009

With more registrations than we’ve ever had at this time, we know already that Web Directions South 2009 is going to be our biggest and best event so far, without a doubt.

So, if you’re thinking about coming along, do yourself a favour and don’t miss out … Read more »

XHTML2 is dead, long live HTML5

• 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”

• 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

• 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

• 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 »

Good reasons to install Internet Explorer 8

• By: John
• June 30, 2009

Hmmm, the reader thinks — where is this one going?

At the end of 2008, our State of the Web survey found that somewhat less than a third of the designers and developers responding tested their sites in IE8 (though essentially 90% tested in IE7). Granted, IE 8 was still … Read more »

First Annual Web Industry Awards — nominations close in 1 week

• By: John
• June 29, 2009

A quick note to let you all know that nominations for the first annual web industry awards, the national version of the long standing WA Web Industry Awards close in 1 week.

There’ll be state by state awards, (with an event Tuesday 6th October in Sydney coinciding with Web Directions) … Read more »

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