Web Directions - Part 21

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Scroll Number 1 — full articles now online

• By: Maxine
• January 12, 2009

How quickly a quarter of a year rolls by. When we launched Scroll during Web Directions South 08 we promised that all the articles would be published in full online 3 months after the print magazine was published, so, here they are.

If you didn’t manage to get your hands on … Read more »

Ten user experience myths debunked

• By: Maxine
• January 12, 2009

Whitney Hess has gathered together insights from a whole bunch of influential user experience practitioners and writers to debunk a few myths about what the profession of user experience actually is. She came up with The 10 Most Common Misconceptions About … Read more »

Palm Pre and webOS

• By: John
• January 10, 2009

Palm has just announced their very interesting looking webOS, and Mojo web application framework. Unlike Apple, Palm are essentially making the way you develop for their devices the way you develop for the web.

According to Palm, Mojo is:

a new application framework based on the HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript standards … Read more »

Bokeh Type Toy

• By: Maxine
• January 8, 2009

Another little distraction from the Man in Blue — the bokeh type experiment. Real real pretty.

Oh, and in case you didn’t know already, bokeh is that effect you get in a photograph when you have a narrow depth of field, and some bright points of light and … Read more »

Ignite Sydney, January 22 — Register now

• By: Maxine
• January 7, 2009

The second Sydney Ignite will be held at the Shelbourne Hotel on January 22. If you haven’t registered to attend already, get in now — it’s free! There are still a few places left, but these will go quickly.

The idea of Ignite is simple — presenters stick to … Read more »

John’s HTML5 article in A List Apart

• By: John
• January 7, 2009

There’s an article by me (John) in today’s A List Apart, on the direction that HTML5 is taking in regards to semantics. I have long thought the approach HTML5 takes to extended the semantics of HTML was problematic in several ways, being not backwards compatible with at the very … Read more »

The State of the Web survey results

• By: John
• January 6, 2009

We’ve just published the report from our first (hopefully) annual “State of the Web” survey.

Some surprising results from the survey include

• Nearly half the respondents use Mac OS X Leopard, and over half use a non Windows Operating system. Windows XP still outweighs Windows Vista among these users by … Read more »

  Google deprecating support for IE6?

  • By: John
  • January 2, 2009

  TGDaily has an unattributed report asserting that

  Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-​​based email service “twice as fast.” Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it … Read more »

  Google’s “Browser Security Handbook” published

  • By: John
  • January 2, 2009

  Michal Zalewski at Google has published a “Browser Security Handbook” the goal of which is

  to provide web application developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers with a one-​​stop reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers. Insufficient understanding of these often poorly-​​documented characteristics is a … Read more »

  Shiny CSS buttons

  • By: John
  • December 23, 2008

  Drew McLellan and Brian Suda, curators of the now traditional “24 Ways” web developers advent calendar kindly asked me to write something for the 2008 edition.

  So, having been playing around a lot with CSS3 and experimental CSS currently supported in various browsers, I put together a proof of … Read more »

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