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October 10th, 2005

In what is best describe as bloody brilliant, Andy Budd has announced a last minute, grass-roots web standards conference taking place in Brighton next month. When the ticket price comes in at a student friendly 50 and a 4-week advance ticket from Manchester to Stevie weighs in at 10, you know you’re on to a [...]

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Steven Marshall vs. Internet Explorer, abridged

October 5th, 2005 5 Comments

This evening, Stevie artistic placeholder Marshall has been mostly trying to fix his new blog design to work in Microsoft’s broken web browser.

Because I’m a bit bored of working on the TextPattern edition of Resin, I felt I’d preserve for posterity one of his more poetic outbursts. Although this one is clean, my IM log [...]

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Future web standards, early adoption and better practices

August 12th, 2005

I have been getting more and more excitable about the potential of HTML5 as a future web standard. Rather than throwing away existing HTML (as XHTML2 will), it attempts the more CSS like approach of evolution. It’s being specified extremely well, filling in some gaps in HTML4.

Now, this is a year or so away (and [...]

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First thoughts on Microformats

June 29th, 2005

John Oxton has posted about the rather spiffy new Microformats specifications which are starting to grow in maturity and usefulness. John’s initial reaction goes like this:
My initial impression of Microformats from logging on to the site was that this was some major new technology, so technical is the blog and Wiki. I was a little [...]

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@Media 2005

June 26th, 2005 1 Comment

I’m probably the last of the ~400 delegates to complete their ‘proper’ @media write up, but I shan’t be discouraged. I may, of course, sound like an old record.

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