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HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2: The Future of Web Standards

By Chris Poteet on March 7, 2008

I recently gave a pre­sen­ta­tion by this title at the Day­ton [Ohio] Web Stan­dards Group Meetup. Here are the slides that I pre­sented as well as my ref­er­ences for the pre­sen­ta­tion. We also have a new Google Group for all design­ers inter­ested in standards-based devel­op­ment regard­less of loca­tion. Fur­ther Read­ing Com­par­isons XHTML 2 vs HTML 5 […]

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The Value-Up Paradigm

By Chris Poteet on February 9, 2008

The par­a­digms I’m going to con­trast are how we view the entire devel­op­ment process. I will refer to two dif­fer­ent par­a­digms: the first is the “work-down” approach which I will con­trast with the “value-up” approach. I read about this in Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing with Microsoft Visual Stu­dio Team Sys­tem con­cern­ing the new Microsoft approach to software […]

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Objectives in User Interface Design

By Chris Poteet on December 21, 2007

At work we are cur­rently re-doing the archi­tec­ture of our user inter­face (UI) layer. We sat down to dis­cuss what our objec­tives should be in doing this ini­tia­tive, and I found the objec­tives so com­pelling that I think it could apply to any user inter­face. Below are the major objec­tives in con­struct­ing a UI: consistency, […]

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