Karlyn Morissette

Not web standards - coding, naming, design, interaction patterns, usability guidelines, accessibility requirements.
Standards are important for consistency and uniformity.

standarizes how people work
faster production cycles
keep pace with emerging trends
protects user experience.

Typical problems w/standards

management isn’t demonstrating commitment
lack of training/communication
documentation lags behind project work
standards aren’t maintained.

Successful standards:

timely updates
communicating about them
reinforcement
assign someone to be in charge

Creation

start with fundamentals
investigate the [...]

It’s not a technique - it’s a philosophy for using JavaScript in its context: for usable accessible and standards-compliant pages.
1) Separation of structure, presentation and behavior.2) Script doesn’t assume anything
Separation:-No inline event handlers for the same reason that you shouldn’t use inline styles.
Advantages - ease of maintenance. The CSS files and the JavaScript layers can be edited [...]

Discovery - finding out what the client needsDesign - turning wireframes into compsDevelopment - turns out the templatesDeployment - translates templates on the back end
It’s important to admit our mistakes because it allows our process to improve.
Discuss the key points of the design before the coding starts to get a sense of the priorities. Make [...]

Day two….and begin!
One way to do debugging is to bring in a user stylesheet, For example, the following will highlight empty elements:
div: empty, span: empty,li: empty, p: empty,td: empty, th: empty { padding: 0.5 em; background: yellow;}
Find any element that has a style attribute and any element that has an empty class [...]

It’s 5am. I always get up at 5am to go running in the morning. Stupid hotel gym doesn’t open until 5:30. Bah.
So day one of An Event Apart was really good. Jared Spool just stole the show with his presentation on navigation. I felt a bit bad for Scott Fegette [...]