Web Standards Group Meetup Details

Posted by Lucian on Thursday, January 11, 2007

The venue for the Singapore Web Standards Group meetup has been confirmed. Raffles Girls’ School has generously allowed us to use their audio-visual room for our little get together.

So the details are:

What: Web Standards Group, Singapore Meetup
When: January 17th 7:30pm, 2007
Where: AVA Room, Raffles Girls’ School

In the interest of security, RGS has requested the names and identity numbers of all attendees. So if you haven’t already done so, please email me your name and identity number if you will be coming.

Be sure to check yourself in at the security counter at RGS before proceeding upstairs to the audio-visual auditorium.

Programme

There will be a short introduction to web standards by yours truly and Nick Pan will be showcasing some work he’s done on U21 Global.

After which I would like to jumpstart some networking by getting all attendees to introduce themselves. So if you plan to be an attendee and would like to display a site or 2 that you’ve done, drop me an email as well. Be aware that you’ll only have 5 minutes though.

If I’ve left out anything, do feel free to drop a comment below.

See you guys there!

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Comments

Dang I can’t be there. Anyway good luck for the meet-up! Any chance the contents discussed on that day be posted online?

Aww…that’s too bad Draco. But I’ll book you to present in future meetings, especially your CSSing of Temasek Poly’s homepage. :)

Nice to hear that there’ll be future meetings but chances are I won’t be able to attend due to my NS schedule; if only such meetings picked up earlier.

We’ll see then and post update of what happens on the 17th, will you? ;-)

HI Lucian Enjoyed your short presentation at NTU yesterday. Had meant to come up to you to talk a little about some of the web standards work we’re starting in NTU. The URL is http://www.ntu.edu.sg/webstandards/ Too bad I cannot join you at the meeting. Will check back to see what has been discussed. Cheers!

@Goh Wee Sen: Hey, hope it’s not rude of me to interrupt!

Great start. Nice using dl though IMHO i think it should be a ul instead (just like what’s been done with the navbar) and the site could use a little more semantic HTML elements (such as Hs) and be more accessible (nice sifr!).

Some pointers if you would consider:

  • Drop presentational br and use padding/margins in CSS where possible. Use address for the footer area for addresses maybe?
  • Drop inline javascripts and go with external window.onload alternatives.
  • Go HTML 4.01 Strict instead of XHTML 1.0 Transitional — makes more sense since you’re not serving your pages as application/xhtml+xml.. If you must do XHTML, attempt Strict doctype.
  • Logo should be H1 coupled with image replacements in most cases.. well at least IMHO.

I don’t know how far you’ll heed my recommendations but it’s just my 2 cents. Nonetheless you’re doing great!

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