Web Directions - Part 13

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

New Jobs at Web Directions Jobs

• By: John
• May 29, 2009

In an encouraging sign given the largely poor economic news we’ve been hearing of late, this week has seen several high profile new jobs posted to our jobs site.

News Digital Media/​TrueLocal and looking for a Senior Front-​​end Developer

Gruden are looking for an Online Project Manager /​ Producer

Different … Read more »

Google Wave — the next big Aussie success story at Google?

• By: John
• May 29, 2009

As far too few people know, Google Maps started life here in Australia, and Google continue to have a large Australian engineering presence. Now, Lars and Jens Rasmussen, two of the founders of what became Google Maps have announced Google Wave — built here in Australia by all indications.

What … Read more »

The dawning of real fonts on the web?

• By: John
• May 29, 2009

Regular readers will know of my near fixation with embeddable/​downloadable fonts on the web, as now supported in Safari, Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10, and long supported (in a somewhat incompatible way with these other browsers) in Internet Explorer.

But the technology has never taken off. Foundries and many type … Read more »

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