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5 days, 12 hours ago
HTML5 Markup Language first draft published
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 ...
Web Directions - 1:19 p.m. Friday 14th November 2008
Web Directions - 1:19 p.m. Friday 14th November 2008
1 week ago
Time picker
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 ...
Web Directions - 12:14 p.m. Wednesday 12th November 2008
Web Directions - 12:14 p.m. Wednesday 12th November 2008
1 week, 3 days ago
Oomph Developers interviewed at Delicate Genius
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 - 12:32 p.m. Sunday 9th November 2008
Web Directions - 12:32 p.m. Sunday 9th November 2008
Web Directions East in Tokyo - a great success
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, ...
Web Directions - 12:29 p.m. Sunday 9th November 2008
Web Directions - 12:29 p.m. Sunday 9th November 2008
1 week, 5 days ago
Print’s not dead
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 ...
Web Directions - 10:15 a.m. Friday 7th November 2008
Web Directions - 10:15 a.m. Friday 7th November 2008
2 weeks ago
WDS08 speakers - SitePoint interviews
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 ...
Web Directions - 8:16 a.m. Wednesday 5th November 2008
Web Directions - 8:16 a.m. Wednesday 5th November 2008
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Lessons learned while developing an iPhone site
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 ...
Web Directions - 3:48 p.m. Tuesday 4th November 2008
Web Directions - 3:48 p.m. Tuesday 4th November 2008
2 weeks, 5 days ago
All Web Directions South 2008 slides and podcasts now online
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 ...
Web Directions - 11:37 a.m. Friday 31st October 2008
Web Directions - 11:37 a.m. Friday 31st October 2008
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Interview about Scroll and Web Directions at Opera Developer Network
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 ...
Web Directions - 2:56 a.m. Tuesday 28th October 2008
Web Directions - 2:56 a.m. Tuesday 28th October 2008
3 weeks, 5 days ago
On (digital) gardens and wilderness
Nearly 3 years ago, after yet another rip off of our site design (I’ve lost count of the number of times people have ripped our design, a lot of our ...
Web Directions - 7:46 a.m. Friday 24th October 2008
Web Directions - 7:46 a.m. Friday 24th October 2008
4 weeks ago
Web Directions North 09 is launched
We’ve just launched the site and registrations for Web Directions North 09 - to be held in Denver Colorado in the first week of February. We’ve got an amazing lineup ...
Web Directions - 12:07 p.m. Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Web Directions - 12:07 p.m. Wednesday 22nd October 2008
1 month ago
Ubiquitous web font embedding just got a step closer
A couple of months back, I surveyed the scene regarding a long cherished dream of web designers and developers - font linking and embedding. A short while ago, Mozilla announced ...
Web Directions - 8:07 a.m. Sunday 19th October 2008
Web Directions - 8:07 a.m. Sunday 19th October 2008
1 month ago
A glimmer of hope in the current economic climate
Unless one lives under a rock, or is hiking in Bhutan, the current chaotic and clearly difficult state of the world economy will have not escaped attention. So, Google’s recently ...
Web Directions - 10:05 a.m. Friday 17th October 2008
Web Directions - 10:05 a.m. Friday 17th October 2008
Opera: 4.13% of the web is standards compliant
Via Ars Technica, news of a survey by Opera Software, long time supporters of Web Directions, makers of fine browsers, and strong advocates for an open, standards based web, that ...
Web Directions - 8:49 a.m. Friday 17th October 2008
Web Directions - 8:49 a.m. Friday 17th October 2008
1 month ago
Great moments in Hypocrisy (mine)
So, some while back I wrote quite scathingly about native iPhone apps. I still stand by what I wrote there - but that hasn’t stopped me downloading some apps, and ...
Web Directions - 10:39 a.m. Thursday 16th October 2008
Web Directions - 10:39 a.m. Thursday 16th October 2008
