Re: [backstage] Native to a Web of Accessible Data?

2006-07-18 Thread Tom Armitage
Sort of yes, and sort of no. So: accessibility is in part a front-end issue. Tom's talking about the layer of abstraction beyond that - the general architectural level - and, by and large, he *is* promoting accessibility - accessibility to data. Accessibility is about more than blind

RE: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy... I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-17 Thread Tom Armitage
Quoting Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AJAX - Is currently the best way to build responsive, in-browser application like experiences for performing actions on data* - AJAX is more than just a scripting language; it too can be the 'appropriate technology' for an API Hmn. AJAX is a good

RE: [backstage] other ways of working ?

2005-10-27 Thread Tom Armitage
Would something like Trac be suitable? For those of you who don't know it, Trac is a combination of a wiki, a version control repository, and a bug tracker. It's also quite good. It serves a completely different purpose to the email list; email facilitates communication, but Trac's a nice way of

Re: [backstage] CSS changes based on weather conditions

2005-10-20 Thread Tom Armitage
Simon Pearson's weblog (www.minor9th.com) also does this; the site varies in tone from blue/green to orange/red, depending on the temperature culled from an external source. As well as altering the colour of links, the photograph in the sidebar is chosen according to tone (though I believe this is

Re: [backstage] backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition

2005-09-01 Thread Tom Armitage
I was hoping to enter; indeed, I got about 1/3 of the way through my project but sheer lack of time and expertise has got in the way. The main problem was parsing the XML. I'd developed the beginnings of the interface, and I was about to approach parsing the XML. Unfortunately, I ended up writing