My Talks
Very occasionally, I get the opportunity to share what I do with my fellow geeks. On this page you’ll find slides, examples, resources, links and whatnot for these various talks and training sessions.
Beg, Borrow or Steal: The Art of Flashing Without Flashing
Description
HTML5 is awesome. Well, it will be awesome when it’s finally ready. Probably.
The bad news is that by the time the W3C have finished monkeying with HTML5, I’ll probably have given up on the web as a whole and taken up meat goat farming.
The good news (for you, me and the goats) is that there’s no need to wait for a lot of the functionality that HTML5 promises; we can start using them right now. In this session I’m going to show you how you can steal these features from the Flash Player and use them in your standards-based sites or applications, without even a sniff of Flash on the page.
Slides
Resources
- Video (coming soon)
- Download example files
Progressive Enhancement with Flash
Yahoo! Developer Summit, London, December 2007
Description
Flash is often viewed as an ‘all or nothing’ technology, where either your site is made up of the holy troika of web standards technologies (that’d be HTML/CSS/JS) or it’s 100% Flash and screw those who don’t have the right version of the Flash Player. There is a happy medium, where Flash can fit into the progressive enhancement approach we all use with HTML/CSS/JS sites, leveraging the advanced features of the Flash Player for those users that have it.
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- Video on Yahoo Developer Network (coming soon)
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Flash & Accessibility
Yahoo! Developer Summit, London, December 2007
Description
You rarely see the terms Flash and accessibility used together in a sentence, and yet the Flash Player has had the ability to integrate with assistive technologies for almost six years. In this session we’ll dispell the myth that all Flash content is inaccessible, and show you how Flash can help to tackle accessibility issues that go beyond standard assistive technologies such as screen readers.
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- Video on Yahoo Developer Network (coming soon)
- Download example files (coming soon)
[...] second session, entitled Beg, Borrow or Steal: The Art
Dynamic Flash » <head> over heels | Wednesday, 29 October 2008 | 1:11 am[...] second session, entitled Beg, Borrow or Steal: The Art of Flashing Without Flashing, was presented virtually from the comfort of my own living room on Sunday evening. The basic idea [...]