Standard Web Standards http://webstandards.raquedan.com Building the web, the standards way! CSS, XHTML, Accessibility, Usability, AJAX, Web 2.0, Adobe Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:01:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.7 1093251 UX Blog: UX Marks the Spot http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=638 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=638#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:01:41 +0000 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=638 This blog is temporarily going out of hiatus to share a friendly reminder to the loyal subscribers and readers of Standard Web Standards. I’ve created a blog called UX Marks the Spot (http://ux.raquedan.com) and it’s a spin-off from Standard Web Standards. All the usability, user experience, information architecture, interaction design, and book reviews posts in … Continue reading "UX Blog: UX Marks the Spot"

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]]> http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?feed=rss2&p=638 29 638 Hiatus. http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=636 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=636#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:13:52 +0000 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=636 Standard Web Standards will be on an indefinite hiatus starting today. I’ve mentioned in another blog of mine that I plan to focus on new and different things this 2010 and writing actively in this blog is one of the things I plan to do less of. I believe that the Web Standards war has … Continue reading "Hiatus."

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]]> http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?feed=rss2&p=636 21 636 Friendster Revamps: Now What? http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=634 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=634#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:07:49 +0000 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=634 Friendster just launched a new look and feel that makes it look more like a site that belongs to the new decade. But is it enough? Friendster’s steady decline decline and getting leapfrogged by competitors MySpace and Facebook are well-documented and this latest move can be seen as a way to increase its value since … Continue reading "Friendster Revamps: Now What?"

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]]> http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?feed=rss2&p=634 21 634 Google Places Vote of Confidence on HTML5 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=631 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=631#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:11:23 +0000 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=631 Chalk one up for Web Standards. Google has decided to retire Google Gears and is moving forward with HTML5. This isn’t really exciting news for the everyday web user but for the standardistas out there (*chirp* *chirp*), this is exciting news. Heck, HTML5 is still not even done a formal specification! With this development Gears … Continue reading "Google Places Vote of Confidence on HTML5"

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]]> http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?feed=rss2&p=631 22 631 Five Years of Firefox in Manila Done! http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=623 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=623#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:46:13 +0000 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=623 The Five Years of Firefox in Manila event was held yesterday and it was� a great launchpad for the Mozilla Philippines Community. I, along with Community coordinators Ren-Ren Gabas, Allan Caeg, and Mozilla Campus Reps from Colegio San Juan de Letran Calamba led by Joell Lapitan, came at 12 noon to make the necessary preparations … Continue reading "Five Years of Firefox in Manila Done!"

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]]> http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?feed=rss2&p=623 20 623 5 Reasons to Attend Five Years of Firefox in Manila! http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=620 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=620#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:05:52 +0000 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=620 The Mozilla Philippines Community, Globe Telecom, and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) will be hosting the Five Years of Firefox in Manila! event this coming November 21, 2009 (3pm-5pm) at the Fuller Hall of AIM in Makati City. This event is a get-together of Mozilla Firefox and Web Standards fans in the Philippines and … Continue reading "5 Reasons to Attend Five Years of Firefox in Manila!"

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]]> http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?feed=rss2&p=620 10 620 World Usability Day 2009 in Manila http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=615 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=615#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:22:13 +0000 http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=615 We had an event for the fifth World Usability Day event here in Manila yesterday, along with 123 other locations all over the world. Entitled “Design/Sustain,” the Adobe User Group – Philippines (AUGPhil) and the UST Information Systems Society (UST ISYS)� hosted the event with a focus on the theme “Designing for a Sustainable World.” … Continue reading "World Usability Day 2009 in Manila"

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