that can hold content, but I like the semantics of a horizontal rule. It's an emphatic break between two sections of content..." http://css-tricks.com/15135-simple-styles-for-horizontal-rules/ +03: EVENTS. Web Accessibility Question and Answers December 14, 2011 at 1:30pm EST http://store.furtherahead.com/free-accessibility-call/ +04: JAVASCRIPT. Evolving ECMAScript By Shanku Niyogi, Amanda Silver, John Montgomery, Luke Hoban, Steve Lucco. "For the Web and Web applications to keep making progress, the programming language of the Web must continue to improve. Today's JavaScript standard lacks a few basic objects and library helpers that are vital for building rich, world-wide Web applications. Last week at the Ecma TC39 meeting at Apple's campus in Cupertino, Microsoft shared reference implementations of proposals to address gaps in Math, String, and Number functionality as well as Globalization..." http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/22/evolving-ecmascript.aspx Crockford on JavaScript - Section 8: Programming Style and Your Brain By Ryan Grove. 67 minutes of Douglas Crockford on JavaScript in the YUI Theater. http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2011/11/18/video-crockonjs-section8/ +05: MISCELLANEOUS. From Hypertext to Hyperdevices By Dominique Haza‘l-Massieux. When the Web started some 20 years ago, it brought a platform for distributing and accessing text, with an added dimension brought by links: hypertext. Because it was free and could be deployed everywhere easily, it was a revolution. http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/11/from_hypertext_to_hyperdevices.html MobiFast - Mobile Development Forums By Roger Weiss. "Our forums are open to anyone who wants to share ideas, concepts and get help with mobile design..." http://mobifast.net/ You Don't Need a Mobile Strategy By Gerry McGovern. "Mobile is a platform. It is a tactic, not a strategy. What you need is a strategy for the connected customer..." http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2011/nt-2011-11-21-Mobile-strategy.htm Practical Standards for Web Professionals W3Conf Presentations The November 15 and 16 Video presentations of the 2011 W3C Conference sessions are now online. http://w3conf.org/#presentations Interview with Chris Coyier By Kevin Dees. "In this interview I wanted speak with Chris Coyier about unicorns and rainbows. However, he convinced me that CSS was a much better topic. Chris is the coauthor of 'Digging into WordPress' and creator of CSS Tricks. Chris is a world knowan CSS expert and HTML guru. He also works at Wufoo making web forms fun, easy and modern..." http://kevindees.cc/2011/11/interview-with-chris-coyier/ +06: NAVIGATION. Latest ARIA Landmark Support Data By Steve Faulkner. "Noting that the landmark support test results I conducted back in July 2011 were being tweeted recently, I though it would be good to update the results..." http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2011/11/latest-aria-landmark-support-data/ +07: PHP. Role of PHP in Web Applications By PHP Know How. "PHP is a server side scripting language. That means its processing happens in the server by consuming server's resources and sends only the output to the client. In a client side scripting language like JavaScript, processing happens in the client's computer consuming its resources..." http://www.phpknowhow.com/basics/role-of-php-in-web-applications/ Arrays By PHP Know How. "Arrays are variables which can hold more than one value at a time. Arrays are useful when you want to store a group of data..." http://www.phpknowhow.com/basics/arrays/ Data Types By PHP Know How. "Consider an employee in a company called Robbin Jackman with a basic monthly salary of 5000 dollars. We can represent this employee in a PHP script using following variables..." http://www.phpknowhow.com/basics/data-types/ Comments By PHP Know How. "Comments are code segments that PHP interpreter avoids executing. They are valuable to make notes inside your code so your program would be more understandable to you and anyone else. PHP supports two types of comments..." http://www.phpknowhow.com/basics/comments/ PHP Sessions By Callum Hopkins. "$_SESSION is a special array used to store information across the page requests a user makes during his visit to your website or web application. The most fundamental way to explain what a sessions is like is to imagine the following scenario..." http://phpmaster.com/php-sessions/ +08: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. Diving Deeper into HTML5 Offline Browsing By Malcolm Sheridan. "Let's dive into what resources you and should not add to the ApplicationCache." http://www.sitepoint.com/diving-deeper-into-html5-offline-browsing/ HTML5 Semantics By Bruce Lawson. "Much of the excitement we've seen so far about HTML5 has been for the new APIs: local storage, application cache, Web workers, 2-D drawing and the like. But let's not overlook that HTML5 brings us 30 new elements to mark up documents and applications, boosting the total number of elements available to us to over 100..." http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/18/html5-semantics/ Semantics is a Tool with Future Potential By Paul Boag. "Smashing magazine has kicked off an interesting discussion about semantics in HTML. It started with a post entitled 'Our Pointless Pursuit of Semantic Value'. In a rather confrontation tone this post ripped apart many of the commonly held 'arguments' for creating semantic code..." http://boagworld.com/tumblog/semantics-is-a-tool-with-future-potential/ +09: USABILITY. Accuracy vs. Insights in Quantitative Usability By Jakob Nielsen. "Better to accept a wider margin of error in usability metrics than to spend the entire budget learning too few things with extreme precision." http://www.useit.com/alertbox/study-accuracy-confidence.html The Design and Display of Simple Interactions on Mobile Devices By Shanshan Ma. Are we re-inventing everything now it's mobile? "Users visit mobile sites not only to consume content, but to get things done. Let's take air travel as an example: tasks that users often find themselves performing on an airline company's mobile site include checking flight status, checking in for a particular flight, and searching for and booking a flight. How does mobile user interface design support task completion? What are the optimal ways of communicating and displaying interactions on mobile sites? With the aim of discovering optimal ways of designing simple interactions on mobile devices, I examined the task of checking flight status. I'm hoping that my analysis sheds some light on this topic." http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2011/11/the-design-and-display-of-simple-interactions-on-mobile-devices.php A Look Inside Mobile Design Patterns By Theresa Neil. "Design patterns for mobile are emerging as the platform matures. Theresa Neil's new book Mobile Design Pattern Gallery provides solutions to common design challenges. Read a sample chapter on Invitations and learn how to immediately engage your customers with your application..." http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/mobile-design-patters/ [Section one ends.] ++ SECTION TWO: +10: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? Accessibility Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/accessibility.html Association Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/associations.html Book Listings. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/books.html Cascading Style Sheets Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/css.html Color Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/color.html Dreamweaver Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/dreamweaver.html Evaluation & Testing Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/testing.html Event Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/events.html Flash Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/flash.html Information Architecture Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/architecture.html JavaScript Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/javascript.html Miscellaneous Web Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/misc.html Navigation Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/navigation.html PHP Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/php.html Sites & Blogs Listing. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/sites.html Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/standards.html Tool Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/tools.html Typography Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/type.html Usability Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/usability.html XML Information. http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/xml.html [Section two ends.] ++END NOTES. + SUBSCRIPTION INFO. WEB DESIGN UPDATE is available by subscription. For information on how to subscribe and unsubscribe please visit: http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/webdev_listserv.html The Web Design Reference Site also has a RSS 2.0 feed for site updates. + TEXT EMAIL NEWSLETTER (TEN). As a navigation aid for screen readers we do our best to conform to the accessible Text Email Newsletter (TEN) guidelines. Please let me know if there is anything else we can do to make navigation easier. For TEN guideline information please visit: http://www.headstar.com/ten + SIGN OFF. Until next time, Laura L. Carlson Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009 mailto:lcarlson@d.umn.edu [Issue ends.]