Like a lot of people with websites to build now, I admit to being a little disinterested in HTML 5. Maybe because it’s the New Year there’s been an extra flurry of activity—certainly true for Bruce Lawson—around this upcoming standard. Bruce’s efforts with HTML 5 and WAI-ARIA are what finally inspired me to give it a go. Check out more HTML 5 links on my delicious account.
Last night I delivered a short presentation on the use of access keys to Refresh Cambridge that generated some good discussion – this is one of the reasons for the group so thank you. Not trusting the trains with even a hint of bad weather I had to make my excuses half-way through Matthew’s presentation to ensure I got back to Ipswich OK so I missed the chance for a swift pint and chat with everyone – I will do better next time because it’s a long way to go for such a short time and I’m sure you think me mad to do it anyway. You can view my presentation online and if you do wish to print it (or view source), you’ll find some extra links too.
Last night I was in London to attend the Web Standards Group meeting on Microformats at Westminster University. Mark Norman Francis, Jeremy Keith and Drew McLellan each took turns to describe the past, present and future of microformats, the Semantic Web (capital S, capital W) and the semantic web (lowercase S, lowercase w). I’ll update this post with links to the podcast when it Becomes Available (capital B, capital A). Just listen to it to get the “in” joke. Mike Davies has already blogged about the detail of the event so stop by his corner of the interweb to learn what you missed out on.
Earlier today I needed to create a centered div containing a centered, inline, unordered list to represent a results paginator similar to what you see at the bottom of search result pages. This had me scratching my head longer than necessary because whereas I had the element centered straight off the bat, the border was [...]
