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