I’m back home in Lisbon, and will finally report on day 2 of the excellent @media 2005.
I didn’t make it to the @media Party. I wasn’t feeling very well, so I went home to rest. I’m sure I missed a lot of fun and chances to network. Oh well, there will be others.
“Tactical Manoeuvres” by Douglas Bowman was a great start to the day. He took us behind the scenes of the Blogger redesign. It’s hard work.
Jeremy Keith took us on a journey into “The Behaviour Layer: Using JavaScript for good, not evil”. He introduced the concept of ‘Good Turtle, Bad Turtle’, and cleared some misconceptions that JavaScript can’t go together with Accessibility. As he put it, JavaScript is not bad… it’s what some people do with it that is evil 
After a tea break came another great presentation by my good friend Molly E. Holzschlag, entitled “Web Standards Workflow”. First, she addressed some questions that had emerged the previous day about the activities WasP was involved in. Then she went on to take a generic glance of past, present and future of developing with Web Standards, and how we can expect to be working in the near future.
After lunch, Joe Clark ‘Zoomed the Web’. He demonstrated the difficulties some users will face, when having to use the zoom tools of their browsers. And they are not few, users AND problems.
The last Speaker of the Conference was Andy Clarke, who gave a designers perspective of web development with a touch of controversy, and that is always welcome!
The wind down party was great also. I had a chance to chat with a few people, whose names I have to remember soon.
This was, as I bet all of us present agree, a great success. One could feel the need for such an event on the faces and interest of the attendees.
I left with a few good ideas to put to practice. One of those is to give another try in creating a group of Portuguese professionals developing with Web Standards. Keep checking this space.
In the meantime, countdown for @media 2006 has already started.