CSS Naked that is! The brainchild of standards wise developer Dustin Diaz, the third inaugural CSS Naked Day attests to the importance of Web Standards. That means using semantic markup, XHTML, and meaningful structure; form follows function! This being a web standards biased group, how could we not participate? As Dustin puts it so well: It’s time [...]

Google Earthed, that is. According to TIME magazine [article], the city of Nanaimo grabbed the Google Earth train only five years ago and have been pumping municipal data like fire service dispatches, utility lines, restaurants - even lawn mowing schedules - into it ever since. Google Earth’s CEO adds that “[Nanaimo] citizens have more information [...]

[ April 10, 2008; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Ryerson University student Chris Avenir finally received comfort today after weeks on trial of facing expulsion over conducting a Facebook run studygroup for his Chem class [CBC article]. University officials originally pointed fingers at the online studygroup as cheating (in fact some members had posted answers to exam questions [canada.com]); however, Avenir himself did not [...]

Is it just me or was it only yesterday the hype for IE8 just started, and now they’re releasing the Beta! Couple of interesting things about IE8: it passes the Acid2 test (which technically means it’s more standards compliant than Firefox, which doesn’t pass the test), and if you’ve been following the discussion on IE8’s [...]

“If you installed Creative Suite 3 on a Mac, check that your firewall is still enabled. Adobe has issued the following critical Security Advisory warning that certain Creative Suite 3 installers turn off the firewall on Mac OS X, creating a potential security vulnerability.” - photoshoponline.tv Bah!

It’s with the coming of the this New Year that I’d like to reflect on past New Year’s resolutions that were proposed for the Posse; one of them being a re-design (cough…still coming?). Ultimately though, it’s form that follows function, and by the end of December the Better Web Posse was listening to Dustin Diaz, [...]

There’s a lot to get excited about these days (like finally posting after a month of dead time), but today it’s all about grid layout - and if you’re a designer of any kind, you know that grids are to design as Elvis was to Rock and Roll. What’s exciting is that now you can [...]

First off, a huge thanks to all those who attended the Posse presentation last night. We had a record breaking 40 people show up, and our presenter Jim Rutherford had a lot of great feedback as well. For those interested in looking at the resources that were covered, including a Zip package of the slideshow, [...]

Cameron Moll has finally released a book on mobile design, after months of his arduous labour in this particular field. Moll’s first words onto the mobile playing field are found on his blog under a three-part series covering methodologies, bugs, and questions about this platform in general. With mobile web still in it’s infant stages, [...]

Anyone who has used sIFR on past websites should consider this article released by sIFR developer Mark Wubben earlier this month: “Malicious websites can trick visitors into running JavaScript code on domains hosting sIFR movies. No exploits are known…” [more on the security flaw] sIFR 3 users are advised to update to revision 278*siFR 2 users are [...]