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The Aus­tralian Web Industry Asso­ci­ation is organ­ising a Web Mixed Grill to show­case some of the bright minds the Aus­tralian web com­munity, I assume in 24 ways kind of way.

While I do not con­sider myself one of the bright­est mind in the Aus­tralian web com­munity. I am more than happy to con­trib­ute. So what would you like to see me contribute …

I am look­ing for your views on an issue I am hav­ing with a design for a new web­site at work. I am a fan of elastic design (which you might of noticed if you are read­ing this via my blog). The ori­ginal inten­tion was to have a basic design for the smal­ler (< […]

The site of the West­ern Aus­tralian Premier is one of the alarm­ing num­ber of web­sites that are built just for broad­band users, while ignor­ing those on dia­lup or those on expens­ive mobile broad­band net­works. The home page in ques­tion weighs in at over hefty 750kb. Which is fine for busi­ness and home users with decent broad­band, but not every­body has access to fast and cheap broad­band in West­ern Australia.

I am not just talk­ing about out­back West­ern Australia …

The W3C are run­ning a free online train­ing in Mobile Web Best Prac­tices, you can find out more on the course over­view page or you can head straight over to the regis­tra­tion page. You might need to rush see­ing the course is lim­ited to 100 participants.

Update 1720WST 5 May 2008 , just got informed by W3C the course is now full, the 100 places where filled quicker than they expected.

Hat tip to Scen­ario Girl. See you on the course Lisa.

Gary wrote a post entitled For­get Select — it is Browse, Browse, Browse in which he was sur­prised by the res­ults of a usab­il­ity test involving a select list, or more spe­cific­ally users ignor­ing the select.
I was not sur­prised by the res­ults of Gary’s test, and for a long time have only used select […]

aka Web Stand­ards do exisit

As Edward O’Connor poin­ted out in a com­ment on my pre­vi­ous post there is an ISO stand­ard for HTML, ISO/IEC 15445:2000, the details can been viewed via the Uni­ver­sity of Dub­lin, Trin­ity Col­lege, Depart­ment of Com­puter Sci­ence site.

I was for­tu­nate enough to spend an after­noon with Molly on her world tour to the edge of nowhere. We had lunch in a res­taur­ant over­look­ing the Swan River and talked. Took a ferry over the river and sat in a cafe/restaurant, talked includ­ing me try­ing to explain WA’s archaic licens­ing laws as we drank cof­fee, if we bought a meal it could of been beer . Before catch­ing the ferry back, wan­der­ing the street of Perth, see­ing some bronze kangaroos before find­ing a pub for a beer and even more conversation.

We dis­cussed a wide range of top­ics, a couple of which need to reach a wider audience.

Ben wrote X-UA-Compatible: let sleep­ing intranets lie?, which was post I wanted to write about browser ver­sion switch­ing because is all about intranets and their applic­a­tions and noth­ing about the inter­net. So after writ­ing a long reply on Ben’s blog, I decided to expand/express my views here.

Oh what a lovely browser </sarcasm>. I admit I do use it for brows­ing the mobile web (i.e. site designed only for mobile browsers), it works well with those sites and I need one keypress less than Opera Mobile when paging through the mobile twit­ter site. How­ever, if required to visit a tra­di­tional web site on my phone, I will use Opera Mobile. IE mobile’s ren­der­ing of tra­di­tional web pages is com­ical enough to almost win me a Web­Jam (and I did not have to dance).

The fun really starts when you try to build a site that works in both tra­di­tional web browsers and mobile browsers. IE mobile applies both screen and hand­held stylesheets. Which can cause chaos. Even know­ing this is not enough, I you try to coun­ter­act the screen stylesheet by remov­ing styles in a hand­held stylesheet, you need to do it properly.

Olav Bjørkøy has cre­ated Blue­print a CSS frame­work which has received a lot of atten­tion is the blog­sphere in the past couple of days…