Monthly Archives: May 2008

@media session 11

Global Design – Characters, Language & More Richard Ishida Richard is the W3C’s Internationalisation Activity Lead. Character Encoding There are many options, but Unicode is the best – it supports many languages in a single character set – making it … Continue reading

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@media session 10

WAI-ARIA – It’s Easy Steve Faulkner Web Accessibility Initative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications It’s a W3C spec, close to becoming a recommendatio, aims to make sense out of NOISE, out of silence. Wherever possible, use the native tags to … Continue reading

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@media Session 9

The Why and Which of JavaScript Libraries John Resig took us through various scenarios when you write JavaScript: Plug & Play: Drop in a widget, little or no JavaScript knowledge required, just customise some options and go – no flexibility … Continue reading

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@media Session 8

Building on the Shoulders of Giants Jonathan Snook Culture We come from a culture where developers tend to like to reinvent the wheel, whereas designers like to reuse. If, as developers, we want to use components of others’ work (under … Continue reading

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@media Session 7

Professional Front-End Engineering Nate Koechley Nate began by giving us a bit of historical context to the way Yahoo! has evolved over the years. He then covered topics such as Yahoo’s server architecture, graded browser support [see below], progressive enhancement, … Continue reading

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