<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92"> <channel><title>Web Directions &#187; Blog</title><link>http://www.webdirections.org</link> <description>Just another WordPress weblog</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 01:27:35 +0000</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs> <language>en</language><item><title>webStorage: Persistent client side data storage</title> <description><![CDATA[Until recently, the only ways to maintain a user’s data between visits to your site have been to store it on the server, or use cookies in the browser. Both present significant security challenges and quite a good deal of effort for us as developers. 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The arguments in each of these really didn’t gel with my experience, and both felt unduly alarmist (“considered harmful” as argued elsewhere really should be retired as a post heading). So, I wanted to run the ruler over the arguments, and [...]]]></description><link>http://www.webdirections.org/blog/localstorage-perhaps-not-so-harmful/</link> </item> <item><title>In honour of International Women’s Day</title> <description><![CDATA[The 8th of March is International Women’s Day. In honour of the occasion I decided to create a listing of all the presentations by people who happen to be women that we’ve had at Web Directions conferences over the years. Many hours later I had come up with the list below. I invite you to [...]]]></description><link>http://www.webdirections.org/blog/in-honour-of-international-womens-day/</link> </item> <item><title>Introducing Web Directions Code, Melbourne in May</title> <description><![CDATA[If you just read our blog here, you might think it’s been a little quiet since Web Dirctions South last year. But we have in fact just finished a 4 city roadshow with workshops by Andy Clarke and me (John Allsopp) as well as our second round of What do you know, this time visiting [...]]]></description><link>http://www.webdirections.org/blog/introducing-web-directions-code-melbourne-in-may/</link> </item> <item><title>Standards, innovation, Flash, ownership and all that</title> <description><![CDATA[It’s often argued (well, asserted might be a better way of putting it) that standards are an anathema to innovation, or at the very least a significant impediment to it. 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