The WDA Group

From: Mark A. Ratliff [mailto:xythos@princeton.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:13 AM
To: daveh@princeton.edu
Subject: Yesterday's WDA PPT

Dave and Steve,

Here is the link to the PowerPoint I used yesterday. It has a few useful links in it that I thought might be useful for WDA member's reference. Thought you might like to post it to your blog.

Thanks for inviting me to speak. I hope it was helpful.

-- Mark

https://webspace.princeton.edu/users/ratliff/Presentations/WDA_WebSpace20091026.pptx

Thank you,
Mark A. Ratliff

Who: Mark Ratliff, Digital Repository Architect, Academic Services, OIT
What: WebSpace (Xythos)
When: Monday, October 26, 2009 - noon to 1:00
Where: Robertson 015

In this presentation we will demonstrate several ways in which WebSpace can be used to manage web content. First we will give a brief introduction to WebSpace and its core functionality. Next we will show how content stored in WebSpace can be delivered from your own web site either by simply embedding a link to a file in WebSpace or by accessing files programmatically using the WebDAV protocol. Brief programming examples will be given. Finally we will show how WebSpace itself can be used as a very basic, standalone web server.

From: David L. Herrington
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:46 AM
To: 'wda-discussion@princeton.edu'
Subject: WDA meeting, May 19: Firebug and ADA Compliant Web Programming

Our final WDA meeting for this academic year will be on Tuesday, May 19, from noon to 1:00 PM in Frist room 234. Bring your own lunch. We will provide bottled water. Our speakers this month will be Harris Crist from OIT Departmental Application Services and Michael Muzzie from OIT Web Development Services.

Hope to see you next Tuesday.

Dave Herrington

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Firebug [Harris Crist]

Firebug is a free Firefox extension that provides a suite of client-side evaluation and debugging tools for your web pages. Harris will demonstrate how to use Firebug to modify and debug CSS on the fly, as well as inspect and debug your JavaScript. Since Firebug allows you to interact with all aspects of the HTML/CSS/JavaScript that the browser uses to draw your page in what feels like a "stateful" way, it saves developers from having to continually make incremental CSS changes or set alert boxes and then upload those changes to your server before reloading the page.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliant Web Programming [Michael Muzzie]

Universal Access to web content is not just an ideal, for many it is the law, but how accessible do we need to make our web applications? If we don't have any blind people (or deaf people, or arthritic people, or epileptics) visiting our sites, do we need to worry? Is all of this effort worth it for such a small percentage of our audience? Will the Accessibility Police bust down our doors because of some sloppy programming?

We will briefly discuss tools for accessibility validation and ways that you can make text, images, navigation, forms, PDFs, video, and audio a bit more usable for all of your web visitors.

Following is a link to Peter's presenation: http://qed.princeton.edu/main/User:Peak/js

Our next WDA meeting will be on Monday, April 27, from noon to 1:00 PM in Frist room 234. Bring your own lunch. We will provide bottled water. Our speaker will be Peter Koppstein, Senior Instructional Designer at the Educational Technologies Center (ETC). A description of Peter's talk follows.

JavaScript: The Little Engine that Could

Just over a year ago, Douglas Crockford published an article called "The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language has become
the World's Most Popular Programming Language".

How did this renaissance come about? What significance does it have for web applications and for software developers?

During this lunch hour Peter will provide some background information about JavaScript in the form of some Top 10 lists, and suggest some other
"Top 10 List" topics for discussion. Please come with your candidates for:

* Top 10 JavaScript language features
* Top 10 JavaScript demos
* Top 10 JavaScript frameworks
* Top 10 one-liners about JavaScript
* Top 10 one-liners in JavaScript
* Top 10 peeves about JavaScript
* Top 10 moments in JavaScript history
* Top 10 news items
* Top 10 JavaScript tools
* Other Top 10 lists

Here is the link to my video information:

http://roxen.princeton.edu/documentation/modules/flash-video/

And here is the answer to Serge's question (What format does MPEG Streamclip
understand?):

MPEG Streamclip lets you play and edit QuickTime, DV, AVI, MPEG-4, MPEG-1;
MPEG-2 or VOB files or transport streams with MPEG, PCM, or AC3 audio
(MPEG-2 playback component required); DivX (with DivX 6) and WMV (with
Flip4Mac WMV Player). MPEG Streamclip can export all these formats to
QuickTime, DV/DV50, AVI/DivX and MPEG-4 with high quality encoding and even
uncompressed or HD video.[1]

[1] http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

--
Henry Umansky

These are the links that I mentioned in my talk.

Roxen Developer's Toolkit page: http://roxen.princeton.edu/resources/toolkit/

Resizeable Textarea extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3818

Web Developer Toolbar extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

Sample XML file for import into the User Agent Switcher extension: http://roxen.princeton.edu/resources/toolkit/useragentswitcher.xml

Michael