Posted in standards on Jul 29th, 2009
A huge thank you to Samuel Chong who’s translated my article A Brief History of Web Standards into both traditional and simplified Chinese. This brings the collection of translations up to three with the Greek translation:
Web网站标准的简史以及对使用者的好处 – Simplified Chinese
Web網站標準的簡史以及對使用者的好處 – traditional Chinese
Τα web standards και η χρησιμότητά τους – Greek.
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Posted in Yay factor!, accessibility on May 11th, 2009
Latest from around the web and also on it that’s caught my eye:
Webaxe interview with Gez Lemon – Gez talks about WAI-ARIA, HTML5 and the Web Accessibility Toolbar.
Dr Who theme – full length version played on 8 iPhones and two Wii controllers at Open Hack Day London. Complete with a conductor no less.
Translating InterAct – [...]
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Posted in Thoughts, internationalization on Feb 27th, 2009
Opinions are split on whether the battle for web standards in won or not with many claiming that web standards are now no longer the vanguard but mainstream. Awareness is higher, laws exist to reinforce it and there is a good grass roots army of developers out there who will do their darnedest to built [...]
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Posted in internationalization on Feb 20th, 2009
Reading specifications isn’t always at the top of everyone’s to-do list but if you’re working on the web and need to pinpoint the exact usage of HTML or CSS quite often you find yourself buried in a spec trying to figure something out.
This is all well and good if your native language is English [...]
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