Archive for May, 2007

Writ­ing my pre­vi­ous post on the but­ton ele­ment and mobile browsers got me think­ing about HTML5 and how it will work with mobile web browsers.

I know all the major browser vendors (Microsoft, Moz­illa, Opera and Apple) are onboard with HTML5, and they are also the major mobile browsers vendors (well Opera, Microsoft and Apple via its’ web­kit being used by Nokia are), but will HTML5 be they imple­men­ted for mobile web browsers and how?

The but­ton ele­ment was redis­covered by Kevin Hale of Wufoo and Particle­tree fame and while read­ing through the post, think­ing I gave you feed­back dur­ing the Wufoo beta about the but­ton ele­ment and it took you this long to see its’ advant­ages. I star­ted read­ing the com­ments, one com­ment from Rus­sell Beat­tie stopped me in my tracks.

Or at least the Web Con­tent Access­ib­il­ity Guidelines (WCAG) Work­ing Group are. I have just read­ing the latest changes to the WCAG 2.0 last call draft and I am impressed, it looks like a lot of mine and other people’ con­cerns have been address. It requires fur­ther read­ing, but it looks like a big improve­ment over the last draft.

It is easy, I am blog­ging while wait­ing for my lunch. But it also has a few chal­lenges, word­press is not pretty or intu­it­ive on IE on WM5, the key­stroke com­bin­a­tions to enter HTML is pain­ful, cut­ting and past­ing from other win­dows dif­fi­cult, but it can be done, so expect more mob­log­gig from me.

Well that is the old say­ing, and in the past few days three good things have happened.

1. Web Dir­ec­tions South 2007 announced their line up, and that included a work­shop on Mobile Web Design and Devel­op­ment with Brian Fling.
2. OZ-IA is on again this year, the week­end before Web Dir­ec­tions South, noth­ing has been announce but I have been assured by Eric Schied it is on.
3. Three added the Dopod 839pro to their X-series, I am now prop­erly connected.

WDS07 Web Dir­ec­tions OZIA

I star­ted the pho­tob­log on Janu­ary 1 with the inten­tion of tak­ing and post­ing a photo a day. After a few weeks the post­ing became a little erratic, I would take pho­tos on a daily basis, then post a photo from each day a couple of times each week. This went quite well until the end of February …

After own­ing this phone for three months, it is about time I expressed my opin­ion on what has been my con­stant com­pan­ion for the past three months.