My OperaGreetings from the Opera education guy
By Chris Millschrismills. Tuesday, February 3, 2009 1:58:12 PM
Hi everyone! Chris Mills here, the "Opera education guy" ;-)
I am dropping a quick post here to say hello to you all - it's great to see so much interest in Web evangelism and education around the world, and I'll be becoming a lot more active on this group from now on, to start up discussions and answer questions you may have about Web standards, development and education... well, a lot more active as soon as I stop travelling enough to start getting some "real work" done!
I'll first talk to you about the web standards curriculum, and education days.
I am dropping a quick post here to say hello to you all - it's great to see so much interest in Web evangelism and education around the world, and I'll be becoming a lot more active on this group from now on, to start up discussions and answer questions you may have about Web standards, development and education... well, a lot more active as soon as I stop travelling enough to start getting some "real work" done!
I'll first talk to you about the web standards curriculum, and education days.
As you may have noticed, the Opera Web Standards Curriculum JavaScript articles are now published - this completes the WSC core skills section. Give me as much feedback as you want, so I can make this as good as it can be. Also let me know where the course should go next. I've already covered a lot, but there is still so much learning to be done after completing what is already there! I want to start creating more advanced follow-up courses to give readers places to go after they have completed the core course, and I would appreciate your ideas on wht should come next. CSS 3? HTML 5? SVG? More advanced JavaScript courses? Give me your thoughts!
Second, I am at the Web Directions North conference this week to help organize and run the Ed Directions Education Day - we are getting industry profesionals in a room and discussing the disconnect between what web development employers want, and what educational institutions teach. This is all a part of our plan to get our educational material into classrooms and lecture theaters worldwide, to help improve the web. I am doing this in conjunction with the WaSP educational task force, and some other very smart people, mainly from the USA.
If the day is a success, we will be hopefully running more of these kinds of events around the world. Let me know what you think!
Charles SchlossChas4 # Tuesday, February 3, 2009 4:03:33 PM
Chris Millschrismills # Tuesday, February 3, 2009 4:38:51 PM
Yes yes yes - we want to cover HTML 5 and other front end technologies not already covered, in future follow-on courses. I think it is particularly important to cover future/nascent standards like HTML 5 and CSS 3, to keep the course future proof, and prepare its readers. I also want to do my very best to encourage people to start playing with these future technologies, to drive their adoption both by browsers and developers.
Risanto robocop48id # Wednesday, February 4, 2009 1:15:30 AM
Nice to know you ..
Please .. plan your visit to Indonesia ..
and share to us your best practices in Web standards ..
Antipatternnodata # Wednesday, February 4, 2009 5:26:15 AM
ZaraZaraL # Wednesday, February 4, 2009 10:09:14 AM
Chris Millschrismills # Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:38:32 PM
Anton Bagayevua-topan # Saturday, February 7, 2009 12:20:29 AM
P.S. See me interested in some SVG materials.
Dani Iswaradaniiswara # Friday, February 27, 2009 11:04:54 PM
Just a quick report, this -- CampusCrew -- blog's sidebar is not in the right place. Using Opera 10, it works fine. But in Firefox 3.06 and Konqueror 3.5 (with no maximized window; <1024px), the sidebar is on the right-bottom of the content.
Colour contrast analyser said this page is fail in luminosity contrast ratio test (based on WCAG 2.0).
I made those test after reading some of your articles.
Chris Millschrismills # Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10:12:36 AM
@ua-topan - we are actually planning some beginner's SVG materials to form part of the WSC. This will hopefully be completed sometime this year.
@daniiswara - LOL, I think it is great that you are applying what you have learnt in the curriculum! I'll have to find out who is responsible for maintaining this page, and get them to fix it ;-)
Anton Bagayevua-topan # Thursday, March 5, 2009 10:31:29 PM