Kay lives here » Web Standards

Time to kill off web standards?

Kay — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:10:01 +0000

I have a web standards blog. I haven’t had time to give it much love lately. I’m thinking of killing it off, merging the articles there with the archives of this blog, and redirecting requests the old domain to this … Continue reading →

Posted from kay lives here

Time to kill off web standards?

Web standards for developers — presentation recording now available

Kay — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:56:10 +0000

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of presenting (virtually) to the New Zealand ColdFusion User Group on CSS and web standards. David Harris runs the meetings with both physical attendees in Auckland and virtual attendees through Adobe Connect. … Continue reading →

Posted from kay lives here

Web standards for developers — presentation recording now available

NZ CF User Group presentation: CSS and Web Standards

Kay — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:11:57 +0000

This Thursday I’m going to be presenting to the ColdFusion User Group of New Zealand about CSS and Web Standards. Sadly, I won’t actually be IN New Zealand… well, only virtually, via Adobe Connect. I’m really pumped about this — because … Continue reading →

Posted from kay lives here

NZ CF User Group presentation: CSS and Web Standards

Do we really need standards for HTML email?

Kay — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:01:20 +0000

There’s been some posts circulating lately about HTML email, and the horrible things that email clients do to display them, and the need for standards. Many people in the web standards community, while supporting the idea of standards for everything, … Continue reading →

Posted from kay lives here

Do we really need standards for HTML email?

Festival site nominated for Webby Award

Kay — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:16:00 +0000

The Perth Festival web site is a nominee in the events category of the 11th Annual Webby Awards. The 2007 Perth International Arts Festival web site has been nominated for a Webby Award. As part of the awards programme, the … Continue reading →

Posted from kay lives here

Festival site nominated for Webby Award

How good markup makes your life easier

Kay — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:44:55 +0000

I read a short but brilliant article today by Garrett Dimon from Digital Web Magazine, called Markup as a Craft. It touches on a topic very dear to my heart: the important of clean, simple markup as the basis of … Continue reading →

Posted from kay lives here

How good markup makes your life easier

Forget input type=submit — use a button!

Kay — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:51:29 +0000

A question about using hover states on an input type=image element came up on the Web Standards Group mailing list today… … and it reminded me that a lot of people don’t know about the fantastic input type=button that works … Continue reading →

Posted from kay lives here

Forget input type=submit — use a button!

Breakfast with Molly Holzschlag: The new professionalism

Kay — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:58:02 +0000

Day Two started early again, with breakfast with Molly Holzschlag speaking on the topic of “The new professionalism”. Professionalism (and often, lack there of) is a topic Molly has explored previously on her blog, and in fact a post I … Continue reading →

Posted from kay lives here

Breakfast with Molly Holzschlag: The new professionalism