February 21st, 2006 — Design
After having gone through the process, about 2 years ago, of creating design standards for my current organisation (which in itself a whole different story), I love to see how other organisations handle this tricky area of standards. Putting aside the issues of stakeholder engagements, research, documentation, publishing of standards, acceptance of standards, governance…… Yahoo! has created a good Design Pattern Library covering many UI components, complete with a visual example and things to consider for accessibility.
I also like the way they have a separate UI Code Library for various design elements. The UI Library provides coding examples, which links in closely to the Design Pattern Library. Although the UI Library does not yet contain all the code related to the Design Pattern Library, it is still a very good support mechanism.
February 13th, 2006 — Web standards
I spent an interesting Friday afternoon learning about localisation and internationalisation from the master of internationalisation himself, Richard Ishida. I’m amazed at how fluently he could rattle a word (or many) in multiple complicating-sounding languages. Someone did ask how many languages he spoke, and the answer is many (I didn’t actually catch how many languages he spoke). I also discovered that Richard is an avid photographer.
Since Amit Karmakar has written up a nice article about Richard Ishida’s talk on localisation and internationalisation, I don’t need to rehash what has been so nicely said.
Here are my flickr photos, along with Amit Karmakar, Russ Weakley, Peter Firminger, Ajay Ranipeta and Lachlan Hardy (coverage of Richard Ishida’s talk at the Melbourne WSG meeting).
February 6th, 2006 — Web standards
Just a reminder that the Canberra combined W3C and WSG meeting is happening THIS FRIDAY. Details are:
When: Friday 10 February
Time: 3.00pm - 5.00pm
Topic: Internationalisation of web sites
Who: Ross Ackland and Richard Ishida
Where: CS&IT Building (Building 108). North Road, ANU Campus, Acton, ACT 2601
More information: http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/event53.cfm
If you would like to attend, please send an RSVP to canberra@webstandardsgroup.org.
See you there!