Web Directions

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The winner of the McFarlane Prize, 2008, is Pro Plaster Products by Propeller Global. Billy Hughes at War for the Old Parliament House, by IceLab was highly commended by the judges. Congratulations to the team at Propeller, at IceLab, and all the finaists, and a huge thank you to the entrants.

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• Web Application Developer
• Campaign Coordinator
• Business Manager
• Technical Editor

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The Jury for the prize has now drawn up the shortlist for this year's prize. The standard of this year's entries was without doubt the best yet, demonstrating that each year, the quality of Australia's web industry's output improves considerably. I'm sure Nigel would have been most pleased with that.

This year's shortlist (in alphabetical order) is

• August Creative Agency by August
• Billy Hughes at War for the Old Parliament House, by IceLab
• Citizen Watches by CKWeb Technologies
• Parker & Co. by Spoon Media
• Pro Plaster Products by Propeller Global
• Spoon Media by Spoon Media

The winner will be announced at Web Directions South on Thursday 25th September. Congratulations to all the finalists, and to all who entered, a huge thanks.

A huge thanks too to the Judges, Peter Ottery, Virginia Murdoch, Henny Swan, Lisa Herrod and Lachlan Hardy." 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Last year we went just past 500 attendees, and we are again nearing that pretty amazing number.I think it is a huge testament to the strength of the Australian web industry, that with a population a small fraction of that in Europe and the US, we get such an amazing turnout. Each year we get an incredible turnout of folks who came in previous years (including quite a few who've come to every one of our conferences!), as well as a great many new attendees - some new to the industry, some old hands who've only just heard about the conference, some making the decision to come for the first time.So, to make a little gesture for such a great turnout, the 500th person to sign up for the conference will come for free!All you have to do is register, and if you are lucky number 500, then we'll let you know right away.Thanks to all who have come in the past, and are coming this year. 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Web Directions

Tell us how you came to be at the W3, and what you do there

Michael

I came to the W3C after several years of doing work on software deployed in mobile networks in Japan (including both software related to mobile browsing and to mobile e-mail), first at a company called Openwave, which made one of the first mobile browsers, and then at Opera Software, which makes one of the best mobile browsers.

I joined that W3C team initially as part of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative but have since transitioned over to work directly related to client-side browsing technologies, in the Web Applications Working Group, which Doug Schepers and I are the W3C team contacts for, and in the HTML Working Group, which Dan Connolly is the W3C team contact for and which I'm currently acting as the co-chair for, along with Chris Wilson.

Web Directions

HTML5 - it looks like a lot more than just the next generation of HTML - can you give us an idea of the goal of the HTML5 project

Michael

I guess the highest-level goal is to produce a specification for HTML that aligns with how HTML is actually being processed in browsers and how HTML is actually being used on the Web -- for example, a specification that takes into account the fact that HTML is used for creating Web applications, not just static documents.

The HTML5 draft in its current form, which was written entirely by Ian Hickson, amounts to being very much like a formal functional specification for how browsers should process HTML -- it defines handling of HTML precisely and thoroughly, free from any ambiguities. We need a spec like that to ensure interoperability among browsers; or to put it another way, we need it to ensure that Web developers will be able to write Web applications and documents that behave the same way regardless of what browser is used to access them (as long as the browser conforms to the spec).

Along with that key goal of ensuring interoperability, HTML5 adds some new elements -- in particular, elements designed to make it easier for developers to create Web applications, and designed to give the open Web platform greater feature parity with competing proprietary single-vendor technologies like Flash.

Web Directions

Who is your session aimed at - just hardcore HTML geeks? And what will attendees get out of it?

Michael

The session is not aimed just at hardcore HTML geeks. It's aimed at Web professionals of any kind who are interested in finding out about the potential that HTML5 has to make their work easier and about the new features that HTML5 brings that will allow them to create more compelling content while still using truly open technologies and not relying on single-vendor proprietary solutions.

" ["post_title"]=> string(49) "Session Spotlight - HTML5 with Michael (TM) Smith" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(45) "session-spotlight-html5-with-michael-tm-smith" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-09-17 10:49:34" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-17 00:49:34" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(35) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=876" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [11]=> object(stdClass)#125 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(878) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "2" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-09-17 10:47:56" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-17 00:47:56" ["post_content"]=> string(646) "Scott and Cheryl of molt:n digital came up with a great design for the t shirts they'll be giving away at the conference this year.Make sure you get yourself one by blogging or flickring something about Web Directions and tagging it with moltnWD.Full details at the molt:n blog.Personally, I'm loving the Gap-esque styling of the photo shoot...worth gong there for that alone :)" ["post_title"]=> string(38) "Very nice molt:n t shirts - get yours!" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(34) "very-nice-moltn-t-shirts-get-yours" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(64) " http://www.moltn.com/blog/2008/09/15/the-t-shirts-have-arrived/" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-09-17 10:49:17" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-17 00:49:17" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(35) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=878" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "3" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [12]=> object(stdClass)#126 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(873) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-09-16 11:22:12" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-16 01:22:12" ["post_content"]=> string(506) "A couple of weeks back we announced a keynote presentation by August de los Reyes, chief experience architect for the Surface project. Well, not only will we have August speaking, but you'll be able to get your hands on the Surface itself, in a rare public outing.Not sure how it will go with 600 plus folks and 1 Surface to go round - but I'm sure we'll work it out. Just another great reason to get along to Web Directions next week. " ["post_title"]=> string(36) "Microsoft Surface at Web Directions!" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(35) "microsoft-surface-at-web-directions" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(52) " http://south08.webdirections.org/?page_id=7#post-91" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-09-16 11:22:12" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-16 01:22:12" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(35) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=873" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "2" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [13]=> object(stdClass)#127 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(870) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-09-16 10:04:48" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-16 00:04:48" ["post_content"]=> string(790) "Sir Tim Berners-Lee has announced a new organization, the World Wide Web Foundation, whose goals are

• to advance One Web that is free and open
• to expand the Web's capability and robustness
• to extend the Web's benefits to all people on the planet

Clearly the foundation is meant to complement the technical role of the W3C, although the second goal positions the Foundation as an umbrella organization to the now more than decade old W3C.With the Foundation only launched two days ago, it is clearly very early days. But an orgaization to act as a custodian for the vision (and reality) that Sir Tim Berners-Lee founded the web to be, helmed by the man himself, is a very welcome initiative. " ["post_title"]=> string(29) "the World Wide Web Foundation" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(29) "the-world-wide-web-foundation" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-09-16 10:04:48" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-16 00:04:48" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(35) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=870" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "2" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [14]=> object(stdClass)#128 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(868) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "2" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-09-15 14:34:51" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-15 04:34:51" ["post_content"]=> string(1288) "99designs and Gruden have just come on board as our closing night party sponsors, which is great news in itself. But even better is the fact that you can grab yourself an ipod touch, not to mention front bar bragging rights, by whipping up a design for the drinks tickets we'll be using on the night. Check out the brief and submit your design at the 99designs site. The only thing is you'll have to get to work fast - as this competition ends Friday around lunch time.John and I would like to give a special thanks to 99designs and Gruden for sponsoring the closing night drinks. We'll be over two big floors at the Shelbourne Hotel this year, with Cameron Adams and Lucas Chan providing us with some of their inimitable ear candy. If you'd booked a flight out of town on the Friday night, change it :) " ["post_title"]=> string(83) "Win an ipod touch - thanks to our closing night party sponsors 99designs and Gruden" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(81) "win-an-ipod-touch-thanks-to-our-closing-night-party-sponsors-99designs-and-gruden" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-09-15 14:34:51" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-15 04:34:51" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(35) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=868" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } } ["post"]=> object(stdClass)#114 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(987) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-09-29 11:18:38" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-29 01:18:38" ["post_content"]=> string(256) "There's so much to come in the hours, days and weeks ahead, but just right now, a huge thanks to all who made Web Directions what it was. Amazing.We'll have much more specific thanks coming soon, but for now, the sincerest gratitude from Maxine and me." ["post_title"]=> string(9) "Thank you" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(11) "thank-you-3" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-09-29 11:18:38" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-09-29 01:18:38" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(35) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=987" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "7" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } ["queried_object"]=> NULL ["queried_object_id"]=> int(0) }