Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology at Beth’s Blog. Beth talked about a conference which revealed a side of Microsoft I’ve never heard about before. I had an opportunity to attend Microsoft’s “Accelerator Summit,” a day of conversation with Microsoft employees, partners, academics, journalists, and bloggers about their corporate citizenship program. Their [...]
Web Directions North has a new web site and an announced lineup for the Atlanta, GA, conference September 21–25. This group includes a lot of people interested in web education, InterACT, and OWEA. You don’t see it on the agenda, but there will be plenty of people there who want to engage in conversation about [...]
InterACT with Web Standards: a Holistic Approach to Web Design is available today. This announcement is a BIG DEAL. This book puts everything you need to teach a class in web design or development with web standards into your hands. The book is easy to use in connection with InterACT’s 17 courses in 6 learning [...]
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Fluid–Create Site Specific Browsers from ATMac is a new concept to me and has interesting potential. This stat filled video about social media is eye-opening. Speaking of video, O’Reilly Media has a lot of video from the Web 2.0 Expo up on YouTube, including this interview with a good deal of talk about HTML5, Flash, [...]
The second of Aaron Anderson’s articles at WebAIM on Future Web Accessibility appeared. I recommend that you read the entire article, but there’s one section on headings that I want to quote here because I think it’s extremely important. In current versions of HTML, the only way to define sections and outline-hierarchy of a document [...]
Keep WordPress Widgets from Appearing on Particular Pages from KnowIT is a terrific explanation of how to pick and choose which pages you want WordPress widgets to appear on. HTML5 and CSS3 Readiness by Paul Irish and Divya Manian shows a display you can manipulate of HTML5 elements and which browsers already support them. Chrome [...]
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Removing the Details and Summary Elements at Burningbird is an extremely well organized and rational response to an issue ongoing in the development of HTML5 right now. Fast Company listed the most influential women in tech. It’s all good, but the most interesting list for web geeks is the evangelists list, which includes Shireen Mitchell, [...]
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
There’s just one useful link today: HTML5 presentation. Look at it in Chrome if you can, or a browser that does some or all of what is demonstrated. Play with the slides when possible to try out the working examples of HTML5. This set of demonstration slides is from Ernest Delgado.
Several new rel attributes for the <a> and <link> elements have been proposed for HTML5. Existing attributes from HTML4 may be redefined somewhat. They include: <rel=’alternate’> may be used with link, a, and area elements meaning depends on the values of the other attributes such as ‘stylesheet’ or ‘type’ <rel=’icon’> may be used with link [...]
The latest working draft of HTML5 proposes two new elements that seem particularly useful to me. These are the figure and figcaption elements. The element name’s are fairly self explanatory–the new elements are meant to let you markup figures and captions included in your documents. On this blog, these new elements could be used in [...]
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