Web Directions - Part 25

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JS-​​909 — Cameron Adams’ Drum Machine in JavaScript

• By: Maxine
• November 20, 2008

If you went to Craig Sharkie’s JavaScript Libraries Panel at Web Directions South this year, you will no doubt be familiar with this latest work of that obsessive genius, Cameron Adams. Craig charged Cameron with … Read more »

HTML5 Markup Language first draft published

• By: John
• November 14, 2008

HTML5 is big. It contains multitudes. It’s very much a work in progress. One important milestone in that process occurred today, with the publication of the first draft of the HTML5 Language first draft, titled, perhaps a little confusingly “HTML: The Markup Language”

This specification describes the fifth major version … Read more »

Time picker

• By: John
• November 12, 2008

Via John Resig, a brand new control concept (and implementation using JQuery), for picking the time. At first glance, it seems far more efficient than popup menus for hours and minutes, and more adapted to a mouse driven interface than the iPhones nifty time chooser. Is a new UI … Read more »

Oomph Developers interviewed at Delicate Genius

• By: John
• November 9, 2008

Following up the last post on Microsoft’s Oomph and microformats toolkit, Michael “Delicate Genius” Kordahi has a video interview with the brains behind Oomph. Check it out.

Web Directions East in Tokyo — a great success

• By: John
• November 9, 2008

We’re just wrapping up the workshops at our first ever Web Directions in Tokyo, and a great event it has been.

Events like Web Directions aren’t at all common here, and despite I think some skepticism, turnout was fantastic, and the response by those involved who I’ve spoken with has … Read more »

Print’s not dead

• By: Maxine
• November 7, 2008

Its purpose has just changed.

This blog post from Khoi Vinh got me thinking.

Interesting that Khoi chose to publish the photo in black and white. Maybe he always does this to fit in with the style of his blog, but, for me it emphasises a broader point as well. A … Read more »

WDS08 speakers — SitePoint interviews

• By: Maxine
• November 5, 2008

One of our media partners, SitePoint, did a whole bunch of interviews while they were covering the event this year, all of which are now online. So, if you enjoyed what you heard from the people below while you were at the conference, be sure to check out the following … Read more »

Lessons learned while developing an iPhone site

• By: Maxine
• November 4, 2008

Got a client who wants you to build an iPhone site? There’s a growing body of resources out there that will help you learn from the hard won experience of those who have gone before you. Check out this one from the Flickr team. And closer to home, here’s … Read more »

All Web Directions South 2008 slides and podcasts now online

• By: Maxine
• October 31, 2008

Thanks to a huge effort by Guy, we now have all the slides and podcasts from WDS08 available at the site, which means it is officially “a wrap”.

Please spread the word about these resources: we make them available like this because we believe too much great content comes out of … Read more »

Interview about Scroll and Web Directions at Opera Developer Network

• By: John
• October 28, 2008

Bruce Lawson, and Opera Software, recently interviewed us about Scroll and the conferences. For those interested in knowing a little more about the conference, or the magazine, there’s quite a bit of detail there.

In particular for those interested in the conferences, we tried to go into a little of … Read more »

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