I’m just back from @media, and thought I’d post up brief notes (such as they are) for my own reference and anyone else’s gain. Obviously, I will only comment on the presentations I saw, and it’s all from my own particular perspective.

Jesse James Garrett – Beyond AJAX

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Upcoming.org is a site that allowed people to publish their events, and therefore you could see all the events by location and/or type of event. Yahoo bought the company, they have relaunched the site, and it’s pretty good (functionality wise at least, I’ve not checked the markup).

Just an off the cuff post during lunch: There is an article republished on Outlaw called Official: Powerpoint bad for brains, which I tend to agree with, but I suspect their analysis of the cause may be flawed.

It is fairly amusing when people (clients or otherwise) demand that a page load in under x seconds (where ‘x’ varies by which guru article they were reading). This hit home today when David Hyatt (lead developer of Safari) highlighted people’s mis-perceptions.

Whether you think the term “Web 2.0″ is a passing buzzword or a useful umbrella term for a range of concepts, I’ve been hearing some strange requests from clients. Over the course of a few conversations I’ve distilled down the main criteria I use for establishing whether we should use some fancy new Web 2.0 magic.

You see a lot of links on sites which are for “Accessibility”, to provide both help for those with accessibility issues, and state what levels of accessibility the site is aiming for. However, I believe that this content should be split up between two different pages.

There is an elephant in the corner type of problem in the accessibilty world, that of WYSIWYG editors. In the first of a three part series, I outline this problem. The later posts will define what a solution would be, and see if it exists yet.

A news release claims that even the best sites cause issues for people with disabilities. This particular test has issues itself (primarily the scope of tasks and the source of ‘best’ sites). However the larger issue is the testers themselves.