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May 4th, 2008
CSS Centering - fun for all has now been translated into Turkish by Kara - CSS ile ortalama
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April 28th, 2008
We are very excited to announce a special Web Standards Group meeting will be held on Friday 16 May at 7pm with two international speakers from the W3C - Richard Ishida and José Manuel Alonso.
Details:
What: Sydney Web Standards Group meeting
When: Friday 16 May
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm start
Where: Australian Museum 6 College Street Sydney
Cost: Drinks and nibbles - Free!
RSVP: http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=153
Sponsor: Proudly sponsored by the W3C Australia
Richard Ishida - “Introduction to internationalisation”
Richard joined the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) in July 2002 to to help expand the work of the Internationalisation Activity, particularly in the area of guidelines, education and outreach. He is attached to ERCIM in the south of France (Sophia Antipolis), but based in the UK. His role at the W3C is to help make the World Wide Web worldwide!
Richard is the Internationalization Activity Lead, and staff contact for the Internationalization Core Working Group. He also participates in the ITS (Internationalized Tag Set) Working Group. He is on the advisory committee and review board of the Internationalization & Unicode Conference.
More: http://rishida.net/
José Manuel Alonso - “How to make the most out of eGovernment”
José is currently the eGovernment Lead at W3C. Prior to joining W3C, José was the Manager for the W3C Spain Office for three years and also served as the Advisory Committee Representative for CTIC (host of the Spain Office).
José has broad experience in project management, software integration, customer relationship, PR and IT consultancy. He received Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Masters degree in Enterprise Application Integration, both from the University of Oviedo, where he also worked at its Research and Innovation departments as a researcher, developer and lecturer. He also worked previously as consultant and even founded his own Web company back in 1997.
More: http://www.w3.org/People/Josema/
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April 25th, 2008
ANZAC Day – 25 April – is probably Australia’s most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as ANZACs, and the pride they soon took in that name endures to this day.
More info:
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April 10th, 2008
I was recently sent this question:
I am trying to apply a div to a page and it will not show when I use the name “420wide” but it will if I use “wide420″. Why is this? Is this rule documented somewhere?
The simple answer is that the ID name must be unique in a document and it must begin with a letter - not a number.
You can find out more in the W3C’s HTML specification relating to the id attribute:
id = name [CS]
This attribute assigns a name to an element. This name must be unique in a document.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-id
There are two associated links with this info:
ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens (”-”), underscores (”_”), colons (”:”), and periods (”.”).
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-name
CS - The value is case-sensitive (i.e., user agents interpret “a” and “A” differently).
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#case-sensitive
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April 9th, 2008
The Email Standards Project has heard from designers all over the world how frustrating it is that Gmail, the otherwise excellent webmail client, does such a disappointing job rendering HTML email. I had no idea how hard it was for developers until I saw this movie - which moved me with its raw emotion.
I guess the question is “what can you do”
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