Archive for April, 2007

All this talk about POSH (plain old semantic HTML) has got me think­ing about how I build web sites. I seem to have been fol­low­ing the prin­ciples of POSH for a few years now:

After read­ing Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) on the micro­formats wiki, it left me won­der exactly what is a POSH site. I agree with the POSH and will adopt any prin­ciples I am not cur­rently using for the next ver­sion of this blog, I don’t know if it will make the grade as a POSH site.

The prob­lem is that …

I just signed up for RobotRe­play beta, a ser­vice that cap­tures vis­it­ors every mouse move­ments, click and key­stroke and it is free ser­vice at the moment.

I do not want to track your every mouse move, click or key­stroke on this site, I know what most the prob­lems are with this site and will fix it with the next redesign. What I really want to do is have a good look at RobotRe­play, because it could be very use­ful for a couple of upcom­ing projects …

After a couple of months and a few hun­dred pho­tos it is time to review the per­form­ance of the cam­era in my Dopod 838pro phone. As a camera/phone/pda the Dopod 838pro makes a good phone/pda.

The cam­era has severe limitations …

It looks like 3 gets how most people would like to use the web on their mobile with their X-series. No walled garden, reas­on­able data allow­ance (500Mb $20 a month, 1Gb $30 a month and 2Gb $40 a month) and bundled extras. I have seen some com­plaints, the data allow­ance is capped (with an excess […]

I man­aged to knock the bat­tery loose from the audio recorder some time dur­ing my present­a­tion and prob­ably ruined the chance of a pod­cast. So here is the script for the present­a­tion. I did not stick to the script com­pletely, par­tic­u­larly after being told I had a minute left at slide seven. It does cover the main points of my present­a­tion, in more depth than the slides (1.7Mb PDF).

Here are the slides (warn­ing 1.7Mb PDF straight from key­note) from my present­a­tion at the AWIA / Port80 min­italk tonight.

The talk will be noth­ing rad­ical, hope­fully enough inform­a­tion to get people con­sid­er­ing the implic­a­tions of mobile web browsing.

The pod­cast will be avail­able from the AWIA pod­cast page in due course.

It is that time of the year for well formed sites to show off their proper use of html, semantic markup and good hier­arch­ical struc­ture. For more inform­a­tion see the Annual CSS Naked Day Site.

So for the next thirty six hours or so this site will be without it’s stylesheets. I had to do a little extra work, remov­ing the IE only stylesheet and remov­ing the javas­cript that inser­ted the flash images, oth­er­wise you would end up with a couple of 1200px wide flash images on each page. The orange will return on Friday.