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HTML5 and Standards.Next

Following on from @media 2009 this year was a free event organised by Bruce Lawson and Henny Swan at the inimitable Bricklayer’s Arms just round the corner from Tottenham Court Road. HTML 5 was the topic of this inaugural Standards.Next meeting with an impressive array of speakers and content.

Design coding

Props to Marko via Twitter for this YouTube video. Clever.

Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8

In a completely unexpected reversal, Microsoft have decided that IE8 will interpret web content in the most standards-compliant way it can. If developer’s want to use the “old” IE7 standards mode, they will have to opt in with the http header / meta tag method.

The Open and Closed Project

Today, Joe Clark launches an appeal for supporters to donate small amounts of cash to start up a research project. Known as micropatronage, Joe is seeking to raise some capital to see him over for four months whilst he raises the $7 million Canadian for an accessibility research project he has dubbed (no pun intended) “The Open & Closed Project”.

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