Google launches Google Latitude. Location-awareness applications have been blooming on the Net for more than a year now, the first-gen iPhone has been doing triangulation to pinpoint your location since firmware version 1.1.3, Mozilla releasing geolocation API Geode and of course Yahoo!’s FireEagle on top of which social networks such as Plazes and Brightkite have been built. It’s only recently though that it caught attention and started gaining momentum, for many location-awareness seems to be the next big thing;
WebAIM published the results of a survey of preferences of screen reader users. When it comes to making websites accessible, we often tend to create pages that comply with standard regulations on the matter and it’s easy to forget that they are just recommendations that can or cannot be adopted depending on the context. In fact, in order to know if your website is easy to use for handicapped people, nothing beats watching real users in action. The results of the survey shows a lot of meaningful information, directly taken “from the horse’s mouth,” from which screen reader they’re using to how alternative texts should be formulated (via );
Videos showing reflow algorithm in Mozilla browsers. No matter what you’re trying to achieve with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, it’s all about dealing with rectangles, be they inline or block-level elements. Reflow is the technique used by Mozilla browsers to deal with the visual formatting model defined in the CSS specification, user and script actions that affect either the content or the viewport;
Facebook joins the OpenID Foundation. With more than 4.000 sites making use of Facebook Connect, which has been considered a better alternative to OpenID thanks to its inherent simplicity, it is a very good news for the foundation that they finally joined forces. OpenID is ‘an open and decentralized identity system designed “not to crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business”,’ in other words it’s the promise to get a single and secured digital identity across the Web. With board members with such a brand recognition—Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, IBM and now Facebook—, let’s hope OpenID will finally get a wider adoption;
The New-York Times shares 28 years of archive with the Article Search API. As usual, the New-York Times leads the way with some innovative usage of its own data, but this one marks certainly a milestone in the history of online journalism. It is now a fact that the press has been suffering from the economic crisis, with newspapers everywhere in the world bound to do some laying off. As a matter of fact, this industry is now making efforts to find new ways of making money online, because print advertising is losing most of its interest; opening and sharing their data has been a solution evangelized by proponents of the so-called link-journalism, which some newspapers have already embraced right from their homepage. With this release, NYTimes.com allows literally to integrate its content on everybody’s website in one way or another, therefore creating long tail effect (via );
A List Apart on advanced JavaScript debugging. ALA’s latest issue features an article on how developers should user debugging tools available for all major browsers to hunt for bugs in their scripts.
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