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March, 2008 archive

The Evolving Web - A Pace Layering view of the development of the Web and the W3C

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

The Web today is very different to what it was in 1994, when the World Wide Web Consortium was established. Roger Hudson’s article - The Evolving Web - looks back at the early history of the Web and uses Pace Layering theory to consider some recent developments and the role of the W3C in the […]

Some links for light reading (26/3/08)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Links with background images - three simple fixes for IE
Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry
Sign Up Forms Must Die
Margins & paddings pt5/the final solution
Microsoft Accessibility Labs
Making IE6-friendly’ PNG8 Images
We Tried To Warn You, Part 1
Cues, The Golden Retriever
Bridging the Designer–User Gap
960 grid system
How to Completely Test Your Website
101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your […]

Some links for light reading (18/3/08)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Designing for the Mobile Web
Great CSS Techniques and the Simple Truth Behind Them
Margins & paddings pt4/solution 2
Equidistant Objects with CSS
Office Format Sucks on Purpose
Contacts Data API
Extending The JavaScript Date Object with User Defined Methods
A Command of Headings: Usage and Styling
Perfect pagination style using CSS
Google is good but it’s not God
Website Optimization Measures, Part III
Portable […]

Some links for light reading (11/3/08)

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Margins and paddings pt3/solution 1
8 Premium One Line CSS Tips
Liquid expandable section with rounded corners using CSS

IE8: The Bad
10 complaints the customers have about the design of corporate web sites
Internet Explorer ID-Class bug
Microsoft & IE8: Let’s Move On and Make It Great
Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience
Extensible CSS Interface II: CSS Selectors & jQuery

3 Important […]

BarCampSydney3 - now 5 and 6 April

Friday, March 7th, 2008

We are excited to now announce the date and time for a huge BarCampSydney3.

When:
5th and 6th April 2008
Where:
Roundhouse at UNSW on Anzac Pde, Kensington
More info:
About BarCampSydney
BarCampSydney wiki
BarCampSydney - Signup

Some links for light reading (4/3/08)

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8
Meta-change
Microsoft rethinks IE8’s default behavior
Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default
Screen Readers lack emphasis
On Creativity
Design is in the Details
Interview: Roger & Molly: Webstock New Zealand
WCAG Samurai
Things Every Designer Should Know
Delivering code/how to avoid conflict
Advanced image management
Twelve Things Most Sites Need, Part I and II:
HTML, the Foundation of […]

A change of heart from the IE8 development team

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

It seems the IE8 development team have been listening to the community, which is great news:
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.
Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8

Uncovering the “Explorer 6 Duplicate Characters Bug” in the wild

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I don’t know about you, but I get very excited when I see an Internet Explorer 6 bug in the wild. It’s like bird-watching - coming across these weird and quirky rendering bugs in their natural habitat.
Take for example a recent update I made to a client’s home page. The two new buttons at the […]