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Free wifi at the WA State Library

ENABLEnet is in theory still in trial mode and has not been publicly launched, but has been running quietly for the past two months. Being open to discovery and word of mouth has resulted in over 150 sessions a day in the past few weeks. As many people use the wifi on Fridays, weekends and public holidays when the library is open for fewer hours as they do during the week.

There is an interesting mix of devices connecting …

For those of you old enough to remember Mr Squiggle. He and his friends are visiting the State Library of Western Australia this month.

Be warned part of the display area has be turned into a classic early 70’s lounge room complete with a colour scheme that looks like it was taken from this blog. So you can watch Mr Squiggle reruns in natural surroundings (and no I did not design it).

Up until a couple of years ago, I mistakenly believed that captioning was just a souped up version of subtitling. I was very wrong.

I learnt a lot about captioning working with a hearing impaired colleague to arrange captioning of a work video, a few years ago.

One of the main issues is there is no standard or even code of practise for captioning in Australia …

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 [...]

For those Australians that missed it, the Prime Minister announced the 2020 Summit. Which is aimed at getting Australia’s 1000 brightest minds to Canberra to discuss the long term future of Australia.

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.

It would be remiss of me not to plug Ideas4, especially seeing I have bought my ticket, so I will not miss out. I suggest you buy your ticket now so you do not miss out, all the previous Ideas event have.

So what will you get …

I got tagged by Ben Winter-Giles with 8 things meme, probably in revenge ;-) for my introduction of him at Web Directions South 07.

Here are eight things you probably didn’t know about me: