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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The morning sessions today at FOWA were very interesting. First up was Chris Wilson from Microsoft who is the program manager for Internet Explorer. The theme to his presentation was how IE is trying to be more standards compliant, though I wish someone would have asked him when IE7 would pass "the Acid Test" (Firefox 3 has). WPF/E which is a new presentation layer for webpage layout was well received here in London. Having it cross-platform I think is great though I am interested in what the latency is when using it on anything other than Vista. Chris's mantra is "Evolution not Revolution" and I could not agree more.
Next up was Khoi Vinh from The New York Times. Khoi is the design director at the Times and he spent a great deal of time discussing how web page layout and design is done at the Times. His presentation was excellent, as it gave me, the developer, an inside look into what goes into flushing out a web page design. At the Times they have the opinion to "Offend the experts, not the beginners." By that he meant that we should be making things easier for the beginners than for the experts. I am not sure I agree 100% of the time, but he has a point. The Times did not drastically change their layout when they added links to Digg or Delicious, but also made them accessible to users so they could learn more about what they do. Khoi also made mention of "testing like you mean it." By this he said user testing takes precedence over executive testing, and to test for usability not acceptance. All products could learn from this.
Finally we had a presentation by Simon Willison on OpenID. Simon started his presentation by explaining two days ago he was going to make the presentation a sales pitch on why to use OpenID, but after AOL's announcement two days ago, and Kevin Rose said they would support it as well yesterday, he changed the presentation up. Simon spent time sharing what OpenID does, and some of its pitfalls. He gave a great demo using AOL's OpenID and Magnolia. He showed that by typing his AOL OpenID that it brings you to his AIM Page, which was very widely applauded. There are some concerns regarding OpenID, mainly how it can be used for phishing. The solution for it is really not acceptable for mainstream users, basically bookmarking your OpenID.
In the afternoon I had meetings at the AOL UK office, and they are working on some fantastic things. While it is too early to share publicly, you will be hearing more about what they are working on in the near future.
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The morning sessions today at FOWA were very interesting. First up was Chris Wilson from Microsoft who is the program manager for Internet Explorer. The theme to his presentation was how IE is trying to be more standards compliant, though I wish someone would have asked him when IE7 would pass "the Acid Test" (Firefox 3 has). WPF/E which is a new presentation layer for webpage layout was well received here in London. Having it cross-platform I think is great though I am interested in what the latency is when using it on anything other than Vista. Chris's mantra is "Evolution not Revolution" and I could not agree more.
Next up was Khoi Vinh from The New York Times. Khoi is the design director at the Times and he spent a great deal of time discussing how web page layout and design is done at the Times. His presentation was excellent, as it gave me, the developer, an inside look into what goes into flushing out a web page design. At the Times they have the opinion to "Offend the experts, not the beginners." By that he meant that we should be making things easier for the beginners than for the experts. I am not sure I agree 100% of the time, but he has a point. The Times did not drastically change their layout when they added links to Digg or Delicious, but also made them accessible to users so they could learn more about what they do. Khoi also made mention of "testing like you mean it." By this he said user testing takes precedence over executive testing, and to test for usability not acceptance. All products could learn from this.
Finally we had a presentation by Simon Willison on OpenID. Simon started his presentation by explaining two days ago he was going to make the presentation a sales pitch on why to use OpenID, but after AOL's announcement two days ago, and Kevin Rose said they would support it as well yesterday, he changed the presentation up. Simon spent time sharing what OpenID does, and some of its pitfalls. He gave a great demo using AOL's OpenID and Magnolia. He showed that by typing his AOL OpenID that it brings you to his AIM Page, which was very widely applauded. There are some concerns regarding OpenID, mainly how it can be used for phishing. The solution for it is really not acceptable for mainstream users, basically bookmarking your OpenID.
In the afternoon I had meetings at the AOL UK office, and they are working on some fantastic things. While it is too early to share publicly, you will be hearing more about what they are working on in the near future.
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Been doing some WPF/E..the latency *in* Vista is horrible - especially for hybrid html-wpf/e pages. The HTML trickles in then a few seconds later - pop - in comes the xaml. Long live Apollo/Flash.
2/22/07 9:32 AM