I have no idea what key I hit, but suddenly, [Alex’s voice](http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Carbon/RN-Speech/index.html) is everywhere. When I open a new Firefox tab. When I close one. When a popup message appears. When I open System Preferences (to see if I can uncheck anything so the voice will stop talking to me!). It was amusing initially but …
There I was, happily ranting away about Web Standards again when Ryan Lin pointed out that my page had XHTML errors. Eep! How did that happen? Firstly, I missed a couple of stray ampersands in my ‘Asides’ column. I’m usually quite picky with invalid URLs, but was so excited to hear that Prince William was …
If you’ve ever done web design before, do take this survey. Some of the answers I gave made me smile, because it’s been years since my job title was ‘web designer’. While web designing is not my main role anymore, as an overseer of numerous projects I still use my whip judiciously. We can all …
Today I got home from work late, had dinner and started designing a mockup for my church’s new website. At work, I am more of a project manager/New Media-PR person than a designer, but every now and then it is good to revive the skills I picked up as a web designer/technologist a few years …
Lucian has summed things up nicely on the main WebSG blog. I arrived late but managed to catch the last bit of Yuhui‘s presentation. Then I finally got to see what Chu Yeow looked like. In the past few years he empathised with my not being able to use Firefox, while I ogled his handiwork …
The first Web Standards meeting in Singapore took place this evening at Raffles Girls’ School. The turnout wasn’t large, but new friendships were made, and I could now put human faces to personalities I’d been conversing with online, for years. Lucian began by giving an introduction to web standards, recalling the good old browser war …
Someone from usability company Etre wrote in to inform me they that conducted a study on many corporate websites to see how the new Internet Explorer 7 displayed them. Turns out that many of these websites are busted. I haven’t done enough research myself to determine if IE7’s new rendering engine really adopts standards as …
It’s time to pick potential panel topics for SXSW 2007. One person, one vote. Might I add that the new SXSW site looks much better than the previous version and we can select our panels via a drag-and-drop technique. (AJAX!) As requested, I’ve shortlisted 10 panels: looking at trends 10 years from now, mobile apps, …
A couple of people signed up recently and I was prompted to check out how many people in Singapore were interested in a Web Standards meetup. I was impressed. Shall we? [Another question – where exactly can we meet up? Somewhere we can hang out and hopefully with free wireless…]
Eric Meyer’s latest article on how he improved on Alistapart’s print styles, is an excellent read for those interested in the technical aspects of printable web pages. When designing our organisation’s online newsletter, I decided to create a print stylesheet but kept it simple – display:none for the logo, nav bar, and mastheads. The only …