Stephanie Booth's online ramblings
Social media, blogging, tweeting, facebooking, web design, and all the stuff that isn’t here yet. Subcategories highlight some areas of particular expertise.
Le meetup sur les standards web à Paris aura bien lieu! De toute facon, on fera un truc meme si on est trois !
, nous promet Tristan. A ce propos, si vous n’avez pas encore vu son standblog, courez-y vite!
Bref, Paris, me voici. Aller en voiture, retour en avion. A jeudi!
Ce jeudi, meetup sur les standards web à Paris. Je suis presque décidée à prendre l’avion. Le verdict tombera demain. En attendant, inscrivez-vous nombreux!
Mailing lists public-evangelist and vkit are there to address some of the problems faced by developpers in the real world when trying to “sell” standards-compliance. Read the list presentations on their respective sites for more details about their purpose.
Dive into Mark gives you 30 days to make your weblog more accessible – with practical solutions and concrete examples of when and why accessibility matters. Convincing and well-presented.
See this nice summary page on referrer linking. I’m very tempted to try to write my own home-cooked one in PHP – you know, like, badly coded, slow, and works only on my server. Might be fun to do though.
[Update 9.7]: a certain number of hours of coding later, here is my php and mysql backlinks script source code. Enjoy!
Reminder to self: check out blogrolling.com as a possible alternative to freshblogs.
I sneaked into my brother’s flat to write this (with his permission, of course). The modem cable is now completely dead, so I’m offline until I get a new one. Aleika is arriving this evening, so I’m not sure how soon that will be.
If you need to reach me and are lucky enough to have my cellphone number, that’s what you must use. See you later, folks!
Freshblogs allows you to set up a list of blogs you watch. It then keeps track of which was updated last, and allows you to publish the resulting list to your site.
I’m only just starting to test it, but it does seem interesting!
[link via Anil]
The Leaky Cauldron is looking for somebody to redesign their site. The person in question must have extensive knowledge of HTML and CSS and web standards.
Congratulations to The Leaky Cauldron for putting forward web standards in their “job proposal”.
A few nice geeky links on the menu for today.
First, Web Standards Project II is live. Check the updated Browser Upgrade Initiative page, and see what the Dreamweaver Task Force has been up to. Stroll around the rest of the site too, there is lots of new stuff hidden everywhere.
Second, the definitive study on sizing text with CSS. See how all these browsers react to your attempts to control the size of your text (screenshots, 264 of them).
Third (and last for today), the CSS1 recommendation, annotated with relevant Mozilla bugs. Yay!
Mozilla 1.0 is out. Run and get it!
Tip: if the Mozilla download page confuses you, scroll down a bit until you see “Mozilla 1.0 – Released June 5, 2002”. Then click the link corresponding to your operating system in the grey box. Save the file to your desktop (or anywhere handy), then double-click to install.