@media 2006 - Day One

Some very good presentations today, kicking of with Eric Meyer’s trip down CSS memory lane, Ten Years of Style. Following that was an interesting panel discussion, Good Design vs. Great Design with Jon Hicks, Veerle Peiters and Cameron Moll. Focusing on grids, typography and colour, the panel provided some thought-provoking insights and Jon declared his love for Comic Sans. Here they are:

Following that, I listened to Chris Wilson talk about what to expect in IE 7. Although this product is always going to be seen as Microsoft catching up with the rest of the browser pack, it does look like it has some rather cool features, namely Open Search. I expect this will be one feature Firefox, Opera et al will all be looking at with interest.

After lunch (nice cakes) was The New Accessibility Guidelines: WCAG 2.0 with Andy Clarke, Patrick H. Lauke, Gez Lemon, and Ian Lloyd. To be honest, this was the one presentation which didn’t work for me and I got the impression that WCAG 2.0 was rather unpopular with the presenters. The gist I got was that the guidelines are complex, hard to understand and, unfortunately, inaccessible. Shame, but perhaps they’ll improve before they’re finalised. Here’s three of the panel:

The final presentation of the day was Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps by the thoroughly energetic and inspiring Jeff Veen. It was an excellent explanation and demonstration of the latest Web 2.0 (i.e. AJAX) applications, providing real insight into the techniques used by the leading companies, using Jeff’s own experience working at the forefront of the web. Go Jeff!

Shamefully I didn’t go to the after party and instead skipped out immediately after Jeff left the stage to watch the match which, for the last 10 minutes at least, was a perfect end to the day. Super Stevie!

Posted by Olly on June 15, 2006 at 8:49 pm in @media, atmedia, css, news, web
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