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My con­tri­bu­tion to Web Mixed Grill (think the Aus­tralian ver­sion of 24ways, no snow and mulled wine here, it is all cold beer and BBQs) on the Opa­city and RGBA has been published.

It was writ­ten fairly quickly (for me) …

This year’s edi­tion of the web geek advent cal­en­dar 24ways has arrived and caused a bit of a stir on twit­ter. One of the reas­ons is the people behind 24ways thought to hell with bad browsers we are going to use CCS3 and rgba which only works in Fire­fox, Safari & Chrome. Unfor­tu­nately they did not think much of people using Opera, IE6, IE7 or who browse without javas­cript.

Well at least for the next two years

aka a review of Everything you know about CSS is wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank

I just fin­ished read­ing Everything you know about CSS is wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank. The title was chosen to be con­tro­ver­sial, the book is about using CSS tables for layout.

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 (< 900px […]

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.