Archive for June, 2008.
Jun 30 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Not sure, because it's in the "from the strong-accusations-so-consider-the-source dept.," but I hate GoDaddy regardless, so…
An anonymous reader writes "A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions. The employee Adam Dicker isn't just any GoDaddy employee; he's head of the GoDaddy subsidiary that controls the auctions. Dicker won some of the domains he bid for, and pushed up the bid price on auctions he didn't win. The conflict of interest is unethical, but could this practice also be illegal? Said a representative for a competitor, 'Even if controlled, that practice has bad news written all over it.' This comes hot on the heels of news that despite earlier promises to ICANN to end their 60-Day ban on transfers, GoDaddy quietly circumvented it by forcing customers to agree to the ban anyway. ICANN doesn't appear to be investigating or asking follow-up questions about this. What can be done to force ICANN to police the registrars for which it is responsible?"
From Slashdot
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
Jun 30 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 1 Comment
Geo developers: Galdos Systems released a KML validator. "The current release will support KML 2.2 and implements the Abstract Test Suite (ATS) defined in the OGC KML 2.2 Specification. It will provide diagnostic support in addition to determining the point or points of non-compliance in the submitted KML file. Galdos Systems Inc. intends to extend this support to provide stronger diagnostics and for future KML versions as they are adopted by the OGC <http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/517>."
The KML validator displays relevant portions of the OGC KML spec to explain error messages. There are two different ways to access the service: upload files for validation or point to a URL of a file on the web. The site also has a helpful set of FAQs about KML.
Via Google Geo Developers Blog
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
Jun 27 | Posted by Dave Fletcher | Add a Comment
One of our loyal monthly attendees of the New York Web Standards Meetup sent us a link to a video by Victor Tsaran, an accessibility engineer at Yahoo! who focuses on developing best practices for the creation of websites that work well with screen readers. In this video, he provides an important introduction to some of the things that work well in the world of screen readers and others that do not. Web designers and programmers who are curious about how people use software like JAWS would benefit from watching this 25 minute video of Victor navigating his desktop and explaining the process. It’s encouraging to see that Yahoo! has a proactive stance on accessibility.
Thanks again to Joe Devon for sending this around to our list:
Jun 26 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
During XTech2008, Anne van Kesteren and Marcos Caceres sat down to chat about the current state of the "ARIA in HTML5" debate. Anne gives an overview of ARIA and the controversy over naming of ARIA attributes and makes some suggestions as to how the community can move forward.
Part One:
Part Two:
Source: YouTube: Part One | Part Two
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
Jun 24 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will be meeting this Thursday (26 June 2008) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.
Adam Detrick (thestreet.com) will present "IE Root," a technique using conditional comments to target IE without making extra calls to the server or using CSS hacks.
Jeffrey Barke (theMechanism) will discuss what the WAI-ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite) is and how to use it.
26 June 2008 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]
RSVP now!
Please contact us if you’d like to present at the September or October meetup.
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
