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.
Miles Burke started the flickr meme for Web Directions South (which is about to close its Early Bird Pricing… so get in quick!). And now with the program out, we are planning a secret cloning project for the WebHatch Day.
With the days now counting down and the Perth Posse are ready to descend upon its own hotel. That’s right this year we have booked out almost a floor of a “dodgy” but quaint pub in Sydney, the Kirk on Harris.
