development
SharePoint 2010 and XHTML Validation
I’m writing this and another post about doing development on the SharePoint user interface and the overall user experiences to display some of my disappointment with issues I thought would’ve been resolved in this upcoming version. Microsoft has said on record they are supporting browsers that are XHTML 1.0 compliant, and they haven’t said officially […]
The Most Trivial Aspect of Designing Interfaces
I’ve been doing UI work for almost a decade. I’ve seen a lot and been through many fads (although I won’t claim them if asked). For a long time I thought the most important part of designing interfaces was the way it looked, and I was caught up in the next DHTML fad that would […]
HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2: The Future of Web Standards
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 […]
The Value-Up Paradigm
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 […]