Archive for November, 2005
Just call me webby
I have been thinking a lot lately about the roles of web designer and web developer. In the past, both of these labels have been attached to me. I often find myself sitting on some shaking fence with regards to where I fall. Fate, freelance and a lot of jobs in small companies has made me into a combination monster of both the evils. I often wander if I should have bitten the bullet and just gone for one or the other. Instead, as I couldn’t make up my mind and liked both, I turned into this hybrid.
When I grow up I want to be a link spammer
I always wander if anyone really does plan to become a link spammer. I mean is it some kind of new career guidance option? You’d be forgiven to think it actually was considering the amount.
Webtiquette
With the first sighting of a car with christmas tree lights in (did I mention people were odd where I live?), comes the trip to Amazon to order the christmas gifts in one effective hit. Something I noticed today whilst buying in bulk was the rise of etiquette books. It really seems like some trendy fad has attacked and landed in a very polite manner. This rise in etiquette is probably a reaction to the loutish lad chav society of the past few years. It has also got me thinking about a few posts I have seen lately online regarding people’s commenting on blogs. Further on from that, it has me thinking about what role etiquette has to play in the web.
Pass it on
Bryan in his journal Avalonstar has a rather nice post today entitled Spreading the knowledge. He retells the exprience of helping someone to make the right decision in a bookshop over some starter books into web world. The sentiment Bryan puts through this post is summed up by this quote :
"We
WSC Working Draft
Yesterday the WSC Working Draft for the WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0), was released in it’s latest working draft format. This builds on the June Working Draft with addressing of comments raised from this release. I decided to have a little nose around it and see what I could find. Of course, it contains the usual principles, guidelines, benefits and criterias. So what is in this version?
When is a variable not a variable
I have been reading online a lot lately about naming of variables. I thought that the old law of calling them something relevant was actually just an accepted norm now. I appear to have been wrong considering the amount of people that are writing about how this needs to be done. Either that or actually having a post or article on naming variables is some kind of hello world in development now. If that is the case hello world.
