Hi all, The Melbourne WSG meeting tonight was held tonight and we had two very interesting speakers and topics.
Firstly, Woric gave us a presentation on the use of XSL and XML, and how it can be used to create easy to maintain websites and CMS's for websites. Woric showed us that using XML and XSL creates true seperation between the data layer and the presentation layers. More info about XSL and XML can be found at Worics's website at http://www.woric.net/xml_XSL.xf Next, Nigel McFarlane, who is the world's leading professional commentator on the subject of Mozilla technology, talked about XUL. XUL is The XML User Interface Language, and is a markup language for creating rich dynamic user interfaces. It is also native to the Mozilla browser. Nigel also dived under the hood in Mozilla and showed us what the different files and folders in Mozilla do. He explained how easy it is to customise Mozilla and encouraged us to get in there and tweak, which is what I'll be doing for the rest of the night! Nigel's website can be found at http://nigelmcfarlane.com/ Thanks guys for an informative night of topics. I will be posting notes from these talks on the WSG site in the near future. Regards, David McDonald Web Designer http://www.davidmcdonald.org ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
