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Presentation: Adapting to Web Standards in the Enterprise
If you’re in the Washington, D.C. area on May 22nd, I’m giving a talk at the NavigationArts, LLC, offices on Web Standards. The title is “Adapting to Web Standards in the Enterprise”, loosely taken from the book that I helped write called Adapting to Web Standards.
I’ll cover the basics of modern best practices using HTML/XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript, touching on Application Development, Content Management, and client-side performance tips for a large Web site implementation. The focus will be an organization moving to a modern approach after years of spinning their wheels in old school techniques.
If this sounds interesting, head on over to NavigationArts.com and register, it’s free! I also heard a rumor there may be some copies of Adapting to Web Standards floating around…
But, take it easy on me, I’m nervous!
2 days ago in Web Development (filed under Web-Standards, NavigationArts)
Past Articles
The IE 8 X-UA-Compatible Meta Tag
So the IE 8 Beta 1 for developers has been out for a bit now and there's some interesting tidbits to be found by playing with it. Some of the biggest news was the switch to a standards-mode by default. You might start checking out your sites in IE 8 just to see what's going on, but I wouldn't put much time and effort into fixing much of anything as it is a developer beta, and there are liable to be a bunch of fixes coming later.
The IE 8 meta tag will help, but you have to do it just right to get it to work...
24 days ago in Web Development (filed under Browsers, Microsoft)
Battlestar Galactica - What the frak is going on?
This 8 minute video has got to be the most brilliant show recap ever produced. Haven't been watching BSG for the last 3 seasons? Now's your chance. This hits every major plot point in a high speed, often hilarious recap.
43 days ago in Personal Posts (filed under Reviews, TV)
Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3 Location Address Bars
So I have many, many more thoughts and observations with the coming releases of IE8 and Firefox 3, but that’s another post and you’ll have to wait. I’ve been crazy busy but I just thought I’d point out something I found elsewhere (I hate doing that but this I actually thought was funny). Read on…
56 days ago in Web Development (filed under Browsers, Elsewhere)
New Web Development Features in IE8 Beta 1 for Developers
So, Microsoft released IE 8 “beta 1 for developers” yesterday. You can get the IE8 beta by downloading it from their site of course. You can also read a ton of information at their readiness site.
There are great introductions there, but you get the most detail out of the whitepapers on IE8.
But, what kind of guy would I be if I made you read all that stuff? Instead, I stayed up late last night …
69 days ago in Web Development (filed under Browsers, Microsoft)
IE8 To Default to Web Standards Mode
So in a reversal to it’s previous stance, unbelievably Microsoft has announced, just in time for MIX08, that Internet Explorer 8 will render Web pages using it’s enhanced Web Standards mode.
70 days ago in Web Development (filed under Browsers, Microsoft)
http-equiv X-UA-Compatible content IE=8
What? So this is really making waves. Microsoft announces an HTML extension which will enable a new standards layout mode in IE8. Oh, you can also do it at the server side since it’s an http-equivalent meta tag.
A new layout mode, huh? That was my initial reaction. “Huh”. I don’t know what that means. And I think anyone who claims to know immediately is full of it. I rant and rave about the new questions this raises.
113 days ago in Web Development (filed under Browsers, Microsoft)
