I am not a big Facebook user (sorry!), but I needed to know how to add a Facebook 'Like' badge to my pages. It may seem relatively easy if you go to the Facebook developers section. However, we really like to make all our pages validate and we are using the XHTML 1.0 strict doctype. You can read how I found a way of doing it here.
Posted on 09 Nov 2010 around 9am • Tagged with: How I do things | Web Technology | Permanent link to this article
Wired News says:
Adobe has released an embeddable video player that shows HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don't. It's cross-browser and cross-platform, so it works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don't support Flash.
Read the article here from Wired News.
Posted on 22 Oct 2010 around 8pm • Tagged with: Web Technology | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
I went to Manchester Metropolitan University to a day long event hosted by the Department of Information and Communications in conjunction with the BSC in Web Development. The day was organised by Richard Elskins who started teaching web design back in 1996.
The programme is currently up here, although I would imagine that this link will die.
Posted on 08 Sep 2010 around 10am • Tagged with: Design | Education | Web Technology | Permanent link to this article
Market Wire - Computers and Software: Internet says:
BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) iFactory, an award-winning web design and development firm, today announced that Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen iFactory's online publishing platform, PubFactory, to develop the relaunched version of the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
Read the article here from Market Wire - Computers and Software: Internet.
Posted on 04 Aug 2010 around 1pm • Tagged with: Publishing | Web Technology | Permanent link to this article
YouTube API Blog says:
There's been a lot of discussion lately about whether or not the HTML5 <video> tag is going to replace Flash Player for video distribution on the web. We’ve been excited about the HTML5 effort and <video> tag for quite a while now, and most YouTube videos can now be played via our HTML5 player. This work has shown us that, while the <video> tag is a big step forward for open standards, the Adobe Flash Platform will continue to play a critical role in video distribution.
Read the article here from YouTube API Blog.
Posted on 30 Jun 2010 around 9am • Tagged with: CSS | Web Technology | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
