When I wrote my JavaScript book in 2005 one of the things my editor called out was that using the term “modern browsers” needs definition. I think it is time to go further and call it a myth. An article of mine coming out soon just came back from the editor. One thing I mention […]

Accessibility and mobile devices is still and issue that needs solving. Sure, there were solutions for phones around for quite a while that would for example allow a blind person to listen to their phone (a friend I know uses a Nokia N95 for that) and the iPhone is considered by many a really good […]

With the release of the videos of Rey Bango and me talking about web standards I once again found a pavlovian reaction of developers and people of the internet to publishing. Here is what happened: Microsoft funded a series of videos talking about sensible use of web standards and embracing cross-browser developmentMicrosoft took on the […]

About a month ago you might remember that I released the slides and code examples for a video training I recorded with Rey Bango of Microsoft. It took a bit longer than we wanted to (the pink flamingo rendering algorhithm for the intro sequence is probably to blame) but now these videos are available on […]

Looking around I am amazed how big the whole “developer evangelism” thing has become since we started it and I wrote the developer evangelism handbook (now updated with a new section on pre-emptive writing). I am also humbled by how many people cite it and mention it to me as a source of inspiration. I […]