Tag: web standards

Vote for the future of the web

The Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA) is applying for a Shuttleworth Foundation grant. I’m supporting them, and I’d like to encourage you to do the same.
To help out, visit the Open Web Education Alliance funding bid page, join up, vote and offer some feedback.
What’s this all about?
This is about providing a solid, standards-based curriculum that [...]

Microsoft and SVG? In the same room?

Yesterday, Sam Ruby reported that Microsoft is sponsoring SVG Open. I had to read his very short post several times to make sure I’d read it right.
I have no idea if this means that we’ll no longer need to use workarounds like SVG Web or chameleon files to get Internet Explorer to support SVG. At [...]

London Web Standards May: Structuring CSS

It’s that time of the month again. London Web Standards will be meeting on Monday, 11 May.
This time, Justin Cormack of Squiz UK will be leading a discussion on Structuring CSS.
He’ll be covering techniques for creating modular, maintainable CSS. Along the way, he’ll be talking about Squiz’s mashable design, Nicole Sullivan’s Object Oriented CSS and [...]

Naked for a day

As you’re likely to notice if you’re visiting this site, rather than reading it on a feed reader, it’s naked.
I’m participating in CSS Naked Day. It is an effort to promote web standards by exposing the underlying structure of a site. The easiest way to do this is to simply remove all styling.
The [...]