You know a few months back Microsoft floored the web industry by doing a back flip on its previous decision to include a X-UA-Compatible Meta switch with Internet Explorer 8.
What a difference 6 months makes. Now Microsoft are back to their old tricks. So what have they done, well it seems now that Internet Explorer 8 will not be defaulting to rendering in complete standards compliant mode that Microsoft promised.
You ever read a blog post from someone on the top of their game, especially in the design arena and think, yeah that’s great, but I work in the real world, clients will laugh at that idea.
Take for example the presentation Jason Santa Maria gave at the recent An Event Apart San Francisco (see Jeremy Keith’s post, which is what I’m going off third hand). Jason suggests that we start making web sites tell a story.
I can see where he is coming from. It’s a good idea, design wise, get the web site to progress and tell the story, via the design aspect alone focusing on the core deliverable.
It’s on again, OZ-IA, the Sydney based Information Architecture conference, now in its third year (Sept 20-21st). Yet again I’ll be lobbing into Sydney for this event, and looking forward to catching up with all my IA and UX colleagues. Over the last two years I have always met new people in the field or learn a fair few new things at this conference, from the formal sessions and corridor talk.
Now OZ-IA may seem like a lay back conference, I’ll tell you it isn’t, in some respects, some of the topics can be a little full on. But that said the social aspect in previous years has been spontaneous yet entertaining.
