Web Directions - Part 12

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The incomparable PPK on the current state of Internet Explorer

• 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

• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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.

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