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Standardista Dream Job

Paypal is offering a dream job for the uber-standardista. Do you have what it takes? Here’s a snippet of the job description: Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: – Standards evangelism: Requires extensive knowledge of Web standards, a passion for advocating their correct usage, excellent communication skills (written and verbal), and a high comfort [...]

The standardistas were abuzz a year ago with hopeful predictions for the coming year. Visions of sugar plums dropping rounded corners, AJAX, and alpha transparent pngs danced through their heads. 2006 has been a great year for web development. Did we get what we wanted? Did we get too much of what we wanted? Further, [...]

Joe Clark has an ambitious project on the docket. The Open & Closed Project hopes to create a new standard for video captioning. It also includes plans to develop better training and certification for those creating captioning. Joe even has plans for developing and implementing new fonts that would make it easier to view the [...]

Back in the dark days, programmers battled with a forgotten browser. It was good for its time, like a 4-cyl Fiero. But time marched on and this browser stagnated, forcing those working in the internet world to jump through programming hoops to make their pages work. There were a few heroes that made this work [...]

Slide Show Pro – Director

When it comes to marrying standards-based web design and Flash, there’s only one name that stands out. Todd Dominey is a legend and hero for creating the flash-based headers, the PGA re-designs, and Slide Show Pro. SSP gave us a great platform to build photo galleries based on XML. Dominey has just released a new [...]




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