Comments on: Speak the Web (Manchester) Review

By: Stephen Fairbanks

Stephen Fairbanks — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:27:58 +0000

I was there at Speak The Web too. ‘Twas interesting, not sure I completely agreed with Andy Clarke’s ‘Hard Boiled’ stance, but certainly agree we all should be pushing the capabilities and possibilities of CSS3, rather than be put off by the IE6 demographic.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:18:36 +0000

Thanks for the positive review/feedback Phil. I certainly felt like a newbie and with hindsight there’s an awful lot I can learn regarding speaking from the very accomplished Andy Clarke, and from Remy and The Hodge too. However, I’m glad you were left with a clear message regarding my thoughts on delivering optimised mobile sites – and of course that it concurs with your own experiences as an iPhone user. Roll on Speak The Web 2011. :-)

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:18:03 +0000

Thanks a lot for the review mate – it’s really great getting feedback on what worked or didn’t work at any of these nights so we can learn and improve, should we do any more.

@Mike – Andy’s point wasn’t so much a rebranding of graceful degredation so much as taking the idea of being graceful out of it and pushing things farther forward which finding acceptable presentations for less capable devices, which is a valid difference IMO ;)

By: Phil Thompson

Phil Thompson — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:16:26 +0000

Yes he didn’t he. I was going mention about all the references to ‘hardboiled’ because I didn’t really get why he was calling it that; I guess it sounds better than ‘Graceful degradation’ (well a bit anyway)

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:06:40 +0000

Graceful degradation? He called it hard boiled :-p