And so OZIA 2007 starts after an evening of beer and thai food with Ruth, Nick, Stephen and Ajay. After a few pubs, we descended on Spice I am. This place is to die for. If you are in Sydney for Web Directions 2007 of OZIA 2007 or anything else go check this place out. Be warned it’s cash only and no booking. But its worth it, trust me.
So after much coffee we go headlong into OZIA:
Adobe have been waving this about for a while. The proposal to take Photoshop and convert it into an online application like Google Docs (Writely anyone). When I first heard of this I thought there is no way Adobe are going to be able to take the complete breadth and power of the full version of Photoshop and put that into a javascript or flex modular application with server side extensions. I rolled my eyes and muttered “we shall see”.
We all know that the boardband services in Australia are like that of a backwater country, speeds of 256kbs, 512kbs are in some countries laughable, here that’s the average. Things like restricted bandwidth, shaped monthly allowances, crippled topend cable speeds, and limited upload speeds are all the norm in the “Lucky Country“.
There has been a bit of discussion of late with respect to CSS frameworks, Jeff Croft floated it on a List Apart. There has been some attention on the recently introduced Blueprint CSS framework. Blueprint presents an easy to use and customisable grid system, with allowances for a full CSS reset and relative font sizes. All good things to have. However can we take this just a little to far. Clearly server side systems as pointed out by Jonathan Christopher can and do take great advantage of frameworks to enhance and speed up the development cycle. But do we really need a framework in the developmental sense, is it the best way to approach Front End development.
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