Posted in standards on Nov 26th, 2008
I was invited by a member of WaSP International Liaison Group, Yiannis Konstantakopoulos, to write an article on the history of web standards for his new online web standards magazine CSS3. I was really chuffed to be able to do this especially as the magazine is in Greek and I truly believe that we should [...]
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Posted in internationalization, standards on Nov 24th, 2008
I just posted a Buzz article about web standards in China on the Web Standards Project (WaSP) website. When over there in October I spent time with some really smart developers and students talking about web standards and trying to better understand the situation in China. The article is really a round-up of a few [...]
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The Colour Contrast Analyser for Mac is now available in Chinese, download a copy from The Paciello Group. The work these guys are doing internationalising their tools is fantastic. Well done Steve, Jedi and the team.
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I arrived at W4A in Beijing this morning and one of the first people I bumped into was Charles Chen over at Google. Charles is the guy behind FireVox, the screen reader extension for FireFox, and has been busy working on a solution to incorporate translation into Google instant messaging in a way that makes [...]
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Posted in internationalization on Mar 15th, 2008
At SXSW this year there was a lot of talk about internationalization and global web design. One recurrent theme debated in panels such as Taking Over the World: the Flickr Way, Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons and Glenda Sim’s and my core conversation on Global Design: Web Sites for the World was the [...]
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