Yesterday was day two of workshops, time for Aaron Gustafson and Progressive enhancement with JavaScript a after trying breakfast at the Pen, not Concrete (got to check them both out). A review of these two cafe is coming, stay tuned.
Aaron went through the standard progressive enhancement spiel on starting from the base content and adding base http requests and then moving up to through the addition of the functionality and the hijax of the ajax components.
But the main show in today. The event we have been waiting for. As per the previous web directions conference, there is a social networking application - Meet Weaver, developed and designed by Tim Lucas and Cameron Adams.
Day one workshops, Web Directions South, the fun begins after breakfast at Concrete, with Andy Clarke launching in the breaking the limitation for the browser and CSS. Looking at the media rich presentations with the high end, advertising. movie and music industry, questioning why they can’t use semantic CSS based layout.
Andy has suggested people need to look at using more of the existing draft CSS3 standard that are supported be the relevant browsers and use javascript to plug some of the holes, example multiple columns in Firefox.
Post lunch at OZIA, we are now on the downhill run after a really passionate morning filled with outstanding presenters. First of there was a little problem with a connection to the projector system (powerpoint on the Mac). But soon we were rocking into the afternoon. One thing I am missing however is good strong coffee.
Wasn’t that much of a late night from IABeers, but it was good fun. More food, more beers, more good company. Okay the meal was a little loaded with MSG. Why is it I come to Sydney and I end up not sleeping well due to the a MSG overload. Later morning start this morning (thankyou Eric). Will be interesting to see who fronts for the first session. So on with the live blogging:
