This is the personal blog of Amit Karmakar, he writes about web, mac & life in Sydney, Australia
Web Directions ‘06 is almost here. Last year was a lot of fun indeed and here’s hoping it’ll again surpass my expectations. Keep your eyes peeled on all official photo-streams at the following urls and if you take photos during the event add them to Web Directions 06 Group Pool. Please tag all your Web directions photos in flickr with the following generic tags and of course you can add your own.
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A great new addition to WebKit—the Web Inspector. It lets you browse the live DOM hierarchy in a compact HUD style window, catering to the needs of web developers. The Web Inspector highlights the node on the page as it is selected in the hierarchy. Search for nodes by node name, id and CSS class name is also possible within the same window! Whoa!! I like it already!
Download the nightly build from http://webkit.opendarwin.org/blog/?p=41 and run the followinf in Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.Safari \
WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
And you should be set to go. You’ll then see a new “Inspect Element” contextual menu item on any web page. This will open up the Web Inspector and refocus to the node under your cursor.
Russ posted an article on “Nested lists used to create a simple folder metaphore“. Thought I’d apply the same mark-up and change the CSS to create Left-hand navigation to re-purpose and re-use the same code. So here goes. ‘Course, I’d expect you’d change the pixel sizes to em and make it all relative. The CSScan also be streamlined a bit further.
Event: Sydney Web Standards Group Xmas drinks
Date: Friday 16th of December
Venue: Bungalow 8
Map: http://www.bungalow8sydney.com/sections/map/map.html
Time: 6 pm onwards…
URI: http://www.bungalow8sydney.com.
See you there!!
Very proud to say the new mycareer site launched today: http://mycareer.com.au. Its the next major site from the Fairfax Digital network to take on css layout as part of a redesign. The site gets hundreds of thousands of visitors a month and is one of Australia’s largest job ad websites.
TeamSite is a CMS produced by Interwoven Inc. And an approximate listing says about 1000 clients across the globe use it for pushing content both within the local Intranets and different extranets worldwide. Most sites that talk about Content Management process and architecture like CMSwatch.com, www.cmsmatrix.org and Oscom hold TeamSite in high esteem. But I have always been skeptic about it because I haven’t seen a single site deliver clean, valid code! As a website developer, designer and website consultant I am very pedantic about valid, clean and semantically correct code. But my view about TeamSite changed since David, Ruth and I started working on building a Template for a website.
George Chavchanidze a mathematician in Georgia uses XML 1.0 markup to capture basic structure of math expressions and CSS 2.0/2.1 to specify their rendering. What a remarkable use of Technology. George Chavchanidze works in the Department of Theoretical Physics, A. Razmadze Institute of Mathematics, Georgia. CSS has tremendous potential and the future holds a lot of growth in this particular area of expanding CSS to meet custom needs. via John
A big thank you to the core members of the Web Essentials ‘04 group(Russ Weakley, Peter Firminger, John Allsopp, Maxine Sherrin) and all those that helped yesterday’s event come together so beautifully. It was a free briefing session for the Government and Education sector about Web Standards, adherence to code semantics and Accessibility(WAI). The Speakers included Russ Weakley, Roger Hudson, Dean Jackson about raising the consciousness in the Government and Education sector with focus on:
Bumped into W3 Complaints sites this morning and on investigation realised this is one of Sean Ho’s brain child. Congrats Sean this is really a great idea! It helps the conscious web designers collate a reference of sites that are truly being complied to by W3 Guidelines of semantic and valid markup along with Accessibility Guidelines and conformations.
