Mar 14
Mar 12
The Knowbility booth was active the whole time at SXSW. People came by and voted on their favorite AIR Interactive site and could also find out more about accessibility and participate in demos of JAWS and other assistive technologies. To see more pics from the SXSW Knowbility trade show go to Dodie’s Flickr page – http://www.flickr.com/photos/23252956@N04/sets/72157604097367275/
Mar 11
Visualizing Sustainability
Room 9
Tuesday, March 11th
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
How can we visualize the city of the future and create more interactive steps that lead to sustainability? How can we use technical simulations and games to build understanding of the resource-balanced world? What’s the connection between an emerging Global Sustainable Society and video games?
Moderator: Jon Lebkowsky Principal, Social Web Strategies
Jon Lebkowsky Principal, Social Web Strategies
Dawn Danby Aylanto
Jamais Cascio World-Builder-in-Chief, Open the Future
Joel Greenberg Writer, podaddies.com
Pliny Fisk Co-Director, CMPBS
Mar 11
Core Conversation: Can .edu Act Like a .com?
Room Ballroom E
Tuesday, March 11th
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Higher Education institutions are sometimes at a disadvantage when it comes to consistent branding of their websites. With hundreds of departments and units creating their own websites, how can a style guide be actively enforced without getting in the way of “academic freedom?” We’ll be taking a look at some universities that seem to be on the right track and discuss what is the minimum amount of a style guide to get administrative backing. We’ll also discuss how web shops can utilize web developer forums on campus to help promote a minimum style guide.
Richard Wood Recruitment Coord, University of Nevada Reno
Mar 11
Content Management System Roundup
Room 18ABCD
Tuesday, March 11th
10:00 am – 11:00 am
This panel discussion will bring together a group of experienced Web designers, developers, and businesspeople to talk about their experiences building sites using a variety of content management system (CMS) products. A variety of widely-used CMS products will be covered, including Drupal, Expression Engine, SharePoint, and Collage, and the panel will also cover the challenges of developing a “home-grown” CMS from scratch. Panelists will include front-end interface designers, back-end programmers, and consultants who will provide an overview of each system and discuss their experiences using them in corporate, academic, and not-for profit environments. The goal of the discussion is to provide an overview of what kinds of CMS products are available, and what their respective strengths and weaknesses are.
George DeMet Owner, Palantir.net
Jeff Eaton Lullabot
Tiffany Farriss Pres, Palantir.net
Mike Essl Owner Operator, mike.essl.com
Matthew McDermott Principal Consultant, Catapult Systems
Order of items in Drupal – Stack including theme modules etc.
Drupal Sucks
- “I just want to make a page”
- “I’m the next Twitter …”
- Static sites
- Just Another Blog
Drupal Rocks
- User-generated content
- Communities
- Many kinds of content
- Many views of content
- Open APIs, Web Standards
Expression Engine
I thought Expression was like Dreamweaver but Expression Engine is actually a CMS engine. – http://expressionengine.com/
Custom Options
- Collage – http://plone.org/products/collage
- Comparison of CMS Systems – http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix
Mar 10
Mar 10
Mar 10
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
- 10:00AM Content Management System Roundup (18ABCD)
- 11:30AM Core Conversation: Can .edu Act Like a .com? (Ballroom E)
- 11:30AM Core Conversation: Next Generation Education: Bringing the New Web to Campus (Ballroom E)
- 02:00PM The Mexican Manifesto (5)
- 03:30PM Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together (A)
- 05:00PM Taking Over the World: the Flickr Way (A)
Mar 10
WaSP Annual Meeting: Don’t Break the Web
Room 19AB
Monday, March 10th
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
10 years ago the Web Standards Project began fighting for an open, interoperable, and accessible Web. What has WaSP been doing lately to open the web? Come hear key Task Force members share successes, struggles and goals. What should WaSP be doing? What can you do to help?
Kimberly Blessing Web Development Platform Manager, PayPal Inc
Glenda Sims Sr Systems Analyst, UT Austin
Stephanie Sullivan Principle, W3Conversions
Aaron Gustafson Principal, Easy! Designs LLC (really Chris Wilson)
Derek Featherstone Further Ahead
Kimberly Blessing
WaSP Co-Lead, Education Task Force Member, Site Implementation
Kimberly Blessing is the manager of the Web Development Platform Team at PayPal, where she is responsible for driving the creation and adoption of standards.
Kimberly also runs her own consultancy, KimmieCorp. She was previously employed by AOL, where she worked on the standards-compliant redesign of AOL.COM in 2004 and the publishing system that allowed AOL to “go free” in 2005.
A graduate of Bryn Mawr College (B.A., Computer Science) and The George Washington University (M.Sc., Computer Science), Kimberly is also an advocate for increasing the number of women in computing and technology fields. She lives in the U.S., but pinpointing her location can be tough.
Glenda Sims
WaSP Member, International Liaison Group Co-Lead
Glenda Sims is a Senior Systems Analyst at the University of Texas at Austin. As a member of Team Web, Glenda helps support the central web site for the University. She is the self-appointed accessibility goddess and web standards evangelist.
Glenda is an advisor and co-founder of AIR-University (Accessibility Internet Rally) and AccessU. She serves as an accessibility consultant, judge and trainer for Knowbility, whose mission is “to support the independence of children and adults with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessibility information technology — barrier free IT.”
She is also passionate about transforming museums into meaningful interactive experiences using transparent technology. She consults with the Blanton Museum and GeeGuides where she finds it hard to differentiate work from play.
Stephanie Sullivan
WaSP Member, Dreamweaver Task Force Co-Lead
Stephanie Sullivan is principal at W3Conversions, a web standards and accessibility redesign company. Her expertise has made her the lead slicer/dicer/CSS chef for several smart web companies and developers.
She is an Adobe Community Expert, a partner at Community MX, a writer, tech editor, speaker, trainer, consultant, list mom, troubleshooter and evangelist.
Though she loves making web sites fast-loading and lean, Stephanie loves beach volleyball even more. She tears herself away from the little people in her computer at least three times a week to get sandy.
Chris Wilson
Microsoft Task Force Member
Chris Wilson is the group program manager for Internet Explorer Platform and Security at Microsoft. He began working on web browsers in 1993 when he co-authored the first Windows versions of NCSA Mosaic, the first mass-market WWW browser. This was also when he inflicted overlapping and tags on the world. After leaving NCSA in 1994 and spending a year working on the web browser for SPRY, Inc., he joined Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team as a developer in 1995.
In the course of five years on the IE team, Chris has participated in many standards working groups, in particular helping develop standards for Cascading Style Sheets, HTML, the Document Object Model and XSL through the W3C working groups. He also developed the first implementations of CSS in Internet Explorer. Beginning in 2001, he spent a few years working on the Avalon project, but rejoined the IE team a year and a half ago to lead the IE Platform and Security team.
In his free time, he enjoys photography and hiking with his wife and one-year-old daughter, and scuba diving in the chilly waters of Puget Sound as a PADI Divemaster. With any free money, he replaces the cameras he’s destroyed by taking them underwater for dive photography.
10 Years of WaSP
Jeffrey Zeldman’s proudest moments
-Today W3C Recommendations are treated as standards by browsers and developers
-Changed the way a number of designer / developers approach their craft
Steven Champeon’s proudest moments
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Molly Holzschlag’s proudest moments
-When we formed the WaSP / Microsoft Task Force and were able to influence the direction of IE7 and ultimately IE8
-When we formed the annual WaSP meet at SXSW and brought
The Adobe Task Force
-Expanding the scope of the Dreamweaver Task Force
-Cover any products that produce Web content
-Develop test cases for Flash, Connect, Captivate, Director, Flex
-Outreach and education for developers
streetsteam.webstandards.org/goodbooks
Get Involved! (Part 1)
-WaSP Street Team Bookmark Project
-Target old Web design and development materials in libraries, schools, etc.
-Encourage
-WaSP International Liason Group
-52 members, 32 countries, 21 languages and growing
-WaSP Cafes
-Translating Web standards resources
http://www.webstandards.org/action/lig
Internet Explorer 8 – Won’t break the (standards-compliant) Web!
Mar 10
Client-Side Code and Internationalization
Room C
Monday, March 10th
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
This presentation will cover tips, techniques, best practices, and gotchas for designers working with XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript in multiple languages. Special attention will be given to right-to-left and bidirectional content. XHTML + CSS + JS + UTF8 + LTR + RTL = client-side i18n fun
Jon Wiley User Experience Designer, Google
pig latin Google!!
globalization
punctuation
vacation
internationalization = translation
internationalization -> i18n (i take out 18 characters in middle n)
enabling product for localization
localization -> L10n
globalization -> don’t use
translation
transliteration -> take word for word machine translation
localization is more than just translation
legal compliance
keyboards
Lots of character encodings
-ASCII
-ISO 8859-1 (ISO Latin 1)
-Windows-1256
-Unicode
-UTF-8
No need for character escapes ©
Character escapes
-when you need markup characters
< (<) or > (>) or & (&)
when you need hard to see characters
Tell the browser
-Content Type declaration in response header
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
-meta element in document header
-external CSS (or just use response header)
Language
find content in the right language
says nothing about character encoding and direction
tell the browswer
-lang and xml:lang attribute on html element
<html lang=“en” xml:lang=“en”>
- meta element in document header
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Language” content=“en” />
-Content-Language in response header
Content-Language: en
Scripts have a default direction
Markup is left to right
Some languages eliminate spaces
German – compound nouns
some scripts have wider scripts – japanese
some scripts require greater line height – thai
CSS Janus
launched last week
created at google
-script for flipping CSS-based layouts
-table based layouts don’t have this problem
-not a total solution
*** cursor: ne-resize; ****
JavaScript
