http://me2.findoo.info Blogs United Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:07:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification. DOM Events is designed with two main goals. The first goal is ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8890 By Gregory P. Care A review of the significant legal considerations regarding web accessibility and ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UXM/~3/-QgvcahoReY/accessibility-and-the-law The Geolocation Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Geolocation API Specification. The Geolocation API defines a high-level interface to location information associated only with the device hosting the implementation, such as ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8889 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of XMLHttpRequest Level 2. The XMLHttpRequest Level 2 specification enhances the XMLHttpRequest object with new features, such as cross-origin requests, progress events, and ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8888 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of The Widget Interface. This specification defines an application programming interface (API) for widgets that provides, amongst other things, functionality for ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8887 The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has updated a Group Note of Device API Access Control Use Cases and Requirements. This document examines the question of managing sensitive information that can become available ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8886 One of the things that has bugged me about the WP Super Cache settings page was how it was laid out. Well, the next version of the plugin will display a simplified settings page to new users. If you’re upgrading, you’ll get the same old page as ever, don’t worry. This ... http://ocaoimh.ie/easy-setup-wp-super-cache/ W3C today extended speech on the Web to an enormous new market by improving support for Asian languages and multi-lingual voice applications. The Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML 1.1) Recommendation provides control over voice selection ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8885 Battery usage on all so called “smart phones” is almost universally woeful. Big high-res colour screens, fast processors, sound, wifi and 3g networking all consume gobs of battery power. Here are some battery saving tips for Android phones. I’m going on a long flight in a few days time so I’ll ... http://ocaoimh.ie/android-battery-saving-tips/ The girls are slowly ramping up production. http://ryan.boren.me/2010/09/04/hot-from-the-chicken/ Avoiding the growing pains and pitfalls associated with becoming a user-driven company. ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UXM/~3/R2srMt9HW38/five-ux-research-pitfalls I overhauled my Tweet Tweet plugin for WordPress yesterday so it would work with the new Twitter OAuth mechanism. This morning I made it possible to download your older tweets, up to the max limit of 3,200 tweets that Twitter allows. It’s still a work in progress but I want to ... http://ocaoimh.ie/tweet-tweet-dives/ The XML Security Working Group has published five working drafts today. XML Signature 2.0, Canonical XML 2.0 and the XML Signature Streamable Profile of XPath 1.0 are part of an ongoing effort to ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8883 An overview of three complementary user research techniques that are well suited to mobile ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UXM/~3/CLAZ8lEhAsE/informing-smartphone-app-design http://ryan.boren.me/2010/09/01/equestrian-chase/ Passed out on the floor after playing with the kids. Lazy Ferret Lazy Ferret http://ryan.boren.me/2010/08/31/lazy-ferret/ The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0. Voice XML is used to create interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken and ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8882 Holding the form factor of a novella length trade paperback that opens up into a bookstore tickles my amazement even more than iPhones and iPads. This latest generation comes the closet yet to making the device disappear and bringing the book forward. Picking it up feels right. This is what ... http://ryan.boren.me/2010/08/30/latest-kindle/ W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the HTML Speech Incubator Group, whose mission is to determine the feasibility of integrating speech technology in HTML5 in a way that leverages the capabilities of ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8881 Sirloin from one of Zoe’s cows. http://ryan.boren.me/2010/08/27/blue-moo/ Seeing how UX design can improve physical-world experiences gives a new perspective on the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UXM/~3/9XdtmJD3Y-E/unusual-settings A small update, I’m slowly working through the WP Super Cache admin page in an effort to make it better. You can in fact download the development version if you want to follow along. What you see above is my first pass. An effort to make the first options section match ... http://ocaoimh.ie/wip-super-cache-admin-page/ UX pros must work on the holistic customer experience—across channels, devices, time, and space. ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UXM/~3/YfGhN2B83R8/dont-become-a-digital-dinosaur http://ryan.boren.me/2010/08/19/cabin-boy/ W3C has launched a new Web Performance Working Group, whose mission is to provide methods to measure aspects of application performance of user agent features and APIs. As Web browsers and their underlying engines ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8879 Remote research can help develop a broader view of users in their natural environments. ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UXM/~3/H834cxAl9vc/doing-more-with-remote-research The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Working Draft of Contacts API. This specification defines the concept of a user's unified address book - where address book data may be sourced ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8878 W3C attends TypeCon 2010 this week for community discussion about Web Open File Format (WOFF), the new open format for enabling high-quality typography for the Web. WOFF expands the typographic palette ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8877 In July, W3C brought together participants across the industry for a privacy workshop (organized jointly with the PrimeLife EU project in London). Discussion topics included privacy-related implementation experience with the W3C geolocation API, and ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8876 Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a smartphone and portable entertainment device by Nokia. It was introduced on October 2, 2008 and released on November 27, 2008. Code-named “Tube”, it is the first touchscreen-equipped S60 device by Nokia. The version being s60v5. It’s part of the XpressMusic series of phones, which ... http://ocaoimh.ie/nokia-5800-long-term-review/ The Web Security Context Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines. This specification deals with the trust decisions that users must make online, and with ways ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8875 The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of The Messaging API. The Messaging API defines a high-level interface to Messaging functionality, including SMS, MMS and Email. It ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8874 The Math Working Group published two Proposed Recommendations today: Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0 and A MathML for CSS Profile. This first defines the Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML, which enables people ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8873 Greenskeepers Of the Leporidae variety. http://ryan.boren.me/2010/08/09/greenskeepers/ Asleep in the Hay Rack http://ryan.boren.me/2010/08/08/asleep-in-the-hay-rack/ The Web Services Resource Access Working Group published seven Second Last Call Working Drafts for Web Services: Enumeration (WS-Enumeration), Event Descriptions (WS-EventDescriptions), Eventing (WS-Eventing), Fragment (WS-Fragment), Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange), SOAP Assertions (WS-SOAPAssertions), and Transfer ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8872 Changing opinions and behavior through engaging, message-based games. ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UXM/~3/dM3exo0K4kA/designing-a-persuasive-video-game The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of XMLHttpRequest. The XMLHttpRequest specification defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server. Learn ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8871 The RDFa Working Group has just published two Working Drafts: RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. RDFa Core 1.1 is a specification for attributes to express structured data in any markup language. The embedded ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8870 Our Okra is doing quite well this year.  Next year I’ll plant a bunch of it. Okra Okra http://ryan.boren.me/2010/07/30/okra/ Motherhood http://ryan.boren.me/2010/07/30/motherhood/ The baby chicks are getting big. They’re close to laying age. http://ryan.boren.me/2010/07/29/pullets/ The XHTML2 Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of XHTML Modularization 1.1 - Second Edition. XHTML Modularization is a tool for people who design markup languages. XHTML Modularization helps people design and manage ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8868 The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8867 W3C announces organization of a Workshop on Privacy and Data Usage Control, to take place in Cambridge, MA, UA on 4-5 October 2010. Users trust enormous amounts of personal information to a large variety ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8866 The WebFonts Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of WOFF File Format 1.0. This document specifies the WOFF font format. This format was designed to provide lightweight, easy-to-implement compression of the ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8865 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Snapshot 2007. This document collects together into one definition all the specifications that together form ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8864 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. User agents commonly apply same-origin restrictions to network requests. These restrictions prevent a client-side Web application running from one origin ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8863 How confusion about terminology can disrupt projects, and 10 recommendations on how to avoid ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UXM/~3/01Hkvr5pEH4/whats-in-a-name W3C is pleased to announce the release of Unicorn, a one-stop tool to help people improve the quality of their Web pages. Unicorn combines a number of popular tools in a single, easy interface, ... http://www.w3.org/News/2010.html#entry-8862