For many users the way to insert a macron (ā,ē,ī,ō,ū) whilst writing is to find a page with one and copy/paste the needed character. Obviously there are easier ways, in this post I explore and experiment with a few methods to easily add macrons when entering content for the web.
There is increasing recognition of the economic impact of Open Source Software (OSS), offering productivity gains for local industries and generating export revenue by servicing offshore markets.
The Australian Open Source Industry Community Report 2008 says “…conservative projection of earnings suggests that the Open Source industry generates $500 million in revenue each year, with over 50% of that being directly related to Open Source”
Web feeds - also known as Atom or RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds - allow you to read and keep up to date with new content from multiple sources (websites, blogs, wikis etc).
Almost every web user will have encountered a ‘404 - Not Found’ error at some point. After reading an interesting discussion topic started by Ben Bradshaw on the Web Standards Wiki about 404 good practice I decided to fix our site’s 404 error page.
A revealing video from The Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada highlights privacy issues on social networks.
Well - maybe you don’t yet. It’s one thing to promote standards for exchanging information and transactions across the web, quite another to manage the result.
Within the New Zealand government domain, a framework is taking shape that aims to manage key objects and make them available. Object types include XML (and other) schemas for data exchange, agency or industry defined coding schemes, web service definitions and many others.
Barry Polley at the Ministry of Justice has updated his paper covering the adoption of Open Source technologies in government.
We examine support for the macronised vowels ā, ē, ī, ō, and ū required by the Māori alphabet in leading open source web applications MediaWiki, Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Silverstripe and Plone and discover mixed results.
We report on the process of achieving compliance with the New Zealand Government Web Standards for this site, including reports from the openWolf validator.
We demonstrate the potential for government web projects to deliver more usable and dynamic calendars using the iCalendar format.
