We’re really excited to take the wraps off Web Directions South for 2010. This has been a big year for Web Directions, with our first ever @media just wrapping up in London, and the recently announced Web Directions US in Atlanta. But our home will always be Sydney, and we’re pretty sure we’ve lined up […]
Just a quick update on our “No Bit, Sherlock” competition, where you can win some great prizes like XBoxes, Mindstorms and a SONY Vaio just for building an SVG button, or progress control. There’s plenty of great examples you can learn from (remember, “view source” is not a sin, it’s how we all learned everything […]
We’ve just wrapped up the first @media event run by Web Directions here in London, and if we say so ourselves, it’s been a huge hit. An incredible array of speakers, covering a wide range of breaking topics including CSS3, HTML5, mobile web app development, geolocation, but much much more as well. We’ll have most […]
To date, SVG has been rather the Cinderella of web standards (people forget that Cinderella was the beautiful, but overlooked sibling before the whole glass slipper business). But since the handsome Prince (Internet Explorer 9) showed interest in her, things have been looking up. OK, so I’ve pushed the metaphor far too hard, but the […]
Those of you who use Opera likely know about their very cool, open source development and debugging tool Dragonfly. It’s in many ways similar to Firebug, IE’s developer toolbar, and Safari’s Web Inspector. The folks at Opera are running a short survey to help get a better understanding of what developers like (and don’t like) […]
We’re gearing up for our first @media filling the huge shoes left by founder Patrick Griffiths, and things are shaping up really well. But @media’s not the only thing on next week. The excellent folks at London Web Standards are holding HTML5 and Flash, where are they now?, yet another fine free event from the […]
Our fine friends, and long time supporters SitePoint have been doing a number of interviews with @media speakers in the lead up to the event next week. Craig Buckler speaks with Jonathan Stark, on building native mobile apps using web technologies, and Tom Hughes-Croucher on Server Side JavaScript (SSJS). Tom and Jonathan will also be […]
I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!
Ethan Marcotte Inventor of 'Responsive Web Design'
