Tuesday, 22. January 2008, 18:56:42
I thought it was very fitting that we just finished our Open the Web logo, and sent it to the printers to make sticker, when I found out about Microsoft and the WaSP Microsoft task force's solution to fixing their Open the Web problem.
More to follow on this when I fully gather my thoughts. So far I feel it is a bleak day for the open web. Opt-in to standards and opt-out of responsibility?
Thursday, 10. May 2007, 14:41:29
In Paris this May 15th, XTech 2007, Molly.Com, inc and Useful Information Company have combined resources to join industry influentials and peers for the first annual Browser, Standards, and Interop Summit in parallel with the XTECH conference. The Summit will consist of an open meeting of as many browser vendors, standards advocates, W3C and related standards supporters as we can gather. We will also have workgroups and an open mike session so everyone can be heard.
The day will be open to observation for interested journalists (particularly bloggers, podcasters and videocasters) based on available space. Participants will include representatives from Opera Software, Mozilla Foundation, Microsoft Corporation and others. It's an opportunity to make voices heard in a more neutral, open discussion outside the vendor or standards groups themselves.
As all Web developers and designers are all too aware, a lot of our effort goes into skirting round the inconsistencies in web browsers. We care about giving our users the best experience possible, so we take the time. A lot of time.
We can save a lot of that time if we also tackle the root causes: unclear, problematic standards and related issues with browser interoperability. While standards can provide the palette from which the next revisions of browsers take features, interoperability work can fix things in the near term, and for the future, getting us back to the original, platform and user agent agnostic vision of the Web.
Both Useful Information Company and Molly.Com, Inc. are splitting the event room cost. Vendors and participants will be required to provide their own travel and lodging, there will be no sponsorships taken from anyone although volunteer opportunities to assist with the Summit in a number of ways, such as providing refreshments, are available.
Hope to see you there! Please do let us know via comments if you're interested.
This post has been cross posted on Molly.com and the XTech site. I'm please to be involved in something that should be increadibly valuable for the industry and cross browser compatibility. I hope to see you all there.
Sunday, 15. April 2007, 22:02:51
It's always nice when we contact a site about issues with Opera and get a positive reply. It is especially pleasing when these are big sites that cause issues for many of our users. We've had a number of positive replies so far this month. I'd like to send out a thanks to our friends at Facebook, who fixed an issue that cropped up with the search box in their great new redesign, Flickr who removed their block on Opera for 9.2 and greater now we have fixed bugs with the Organizr (and added Opera to their upgrade notice), Microsoft for fixing xbox.com, Tiscali UK for fixing their web mail, and Google for fixing Google Calendar. Okay, I'm joking on the last one, but it'd nice to be given some love eventually. They did fix Orkut last month though.
There should be further good news coming up, with the likes of Earthlink, Scandinavian Airlines, Microsoft and Yahoo! Japan currently looking into issues we've reported to them. With the positive take up of the Internet Channel on Wii (look out for an article on Dev.opera soon on how to design for Wii) then designers have even more incentive to get sites working in Opera. I'd also like to send out a big thanks to Wiiminder and Wiicade among others, that have produced great services built around the Wii browser. Now that the full version supports TV stylesheets, sites can be optimised for the Wii, while any other TV based device (if they also support TV stylesheets) can take advantage of this. This is especially useful for sites that have a fluid layout and want to increase the font sizes to make the text more legible on low resolutions, and from further distances from the screen, such as surfing from the sofa, without relying on the zoom feature. I'm looking forward to seeing sites designing with this in mind.
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