Posted in Standards, Web Design/HTML on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has long been the place to go for standards dealing with the web. The problem has been . . . well . . . that the site has always looked . . . old.
They now have a beta for their new site:
So much easier to use and cleaner!
[from W3C [...]
Posted in Hardware, Standards, Telecommunications on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The next version for USB is available now, but probably won’t be seen by consumers until 2010. USB 3.0, also called “USB SuperSpeed,” is focused on speed — it should be about 10 times faster than the USB 2.0 standard.
To give you an idea of how fast this is, these numbers from from a slide [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Browsers, Handhelds, Standards, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The World Wide Web Consortium has announced a recommendation that will help us create web pages for mobile devices — Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.
It includes a list of 60 best practices, which are provided at the beginning of the document and discussed further into the document. A definite good read!
[from beSpacific]
Posted in Browsers, Standards, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
XHTML Basic has been updated to version 1.1. From the W3C website:
The XHTML Basic document type includes the minimal set of modules required to be an XHTML host language document type, and in addition it includes images, forms, basic tables, and object support. It is designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, [...]
Posted in Standards, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When creating web pages, most of us are stuck with the few, basic fonts that are used across most operating systems. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to tap into the exact font we want — regardless of what is installed on our users’ computers? It’s possible.
Cascading Style Sheets version 3 has a property [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Standards on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PDF is now an ISO standard — ISO 32000-1. The development now lies in the hands of an ISO committee, not solely in Adobe’s. This is the third PDF ISO standard. PDF/X, for the printing industry, and PDF/A, for long-term archiving, are already under the auspices of ISO.
[from ResourceShelf]
Posted in Internet, Standards on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And what will they be? I haven’t the faintest idea. ICANN, the organization in charge of creating and maintaining top level domain names like edu and com, has changed the rules. In June, they voted to accept a new proposal that would allow anyone to create their own top level domain name. So, instead of [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Searching, Standards on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To answer a question frequently asked of Google — how can webmasters raise their rank in a Google search — they’ve given us some pointers.
Ensure that all critical content is reachable
Ensure that content is readable
Ensure that content is available in reading order
Supplement all visual content
They also make the statement that and accessible web site [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Research, Standards on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the past year, the ALA’s Preservation and Reformatting Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services has been working on a definition for “digital preservation.” Although it will continue to be developed and revised as we understand more about the subject, they have created three forms of the definition: short, medium, and [...]
Posted in Continuing Education, Security, Standards, Wireless Communications on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you haven’t yet seen the two cookbooks put out by MaintainIT, you should take a look. In addition to these resources, they have started a series of free, monthly, 30-minute webinars on topics pulled from the cookbooks.
The first was today, April 16th — Notes from a Laptop Circulation Program. It is archived, so you [...]
