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on Mar. 9 2007
Have you validated your site for Wii?
10:48 pm
We have a Wii at home since some months, and it is really funny for children, but also for their parents. Interestingly enough, it is connected to the Internet through Wi-Fi, and Nintendo has made a web browser available.
Yes, you can browse the Internet on TV set, even if the pointing device is not as handy as a mouse, in my opinion.
Last week my last son used this to demonstrate to family friends a blog page with a video. Wii browser is Opera, which i have never used yet, server is based on YACS, video is hosted at DailyMotion and rendered as a Flash object in web page.
Guess what happened? A fantastic browsing experience, with video and music included...
Two lessons have been learnt at this occasion.
First, the beauty of standards lies in interoperability. Technical constraints imposed by web standards (and YACS respect a lot of them) create browsing freedom.
Second, to check your site against Opera, don't install this browser on your workstation. Buy a Wii instead...
Yes, you can browse the Internet on TV set, even if the pointing device is not as handy as a mouse, in my opinion.
Last week my last son used this to demonstrate to family friends a blog page with a video. Wii browser is Opera, which i have never used yet, server is based on YACS, video is hosted at DailyMotion and rendered as a Flash object in web page.
Guess what happened? A fantastic browsing experience, with video and music included...
Two lessons have been learnt at this occasion.
First, the beauty of standards lies in interoperability. Technical constraints imposed by web standards (and YACS respect a lot of them) create browsing freedom.
Second, to check your site against Opera, don't install this browser on your workstation. Buy a Wii instead...
on Mar. 3 2007
Access key is back again in Firefox 2.0
09:58 pm
YACS offers several access keys for a quite long amount of time. These are used to improve accessibility, but are not reserved to people with disabilities.
For example, the S access key is implemented in almost all YACS forms, and with Internet Explorer 6, and in Firefox 1 as well, you just had to hit
Unfortunately, this key combination has been broken with Firefox 2, and we have been looking for another access key for months.
Now the search is over, since Firefox 2 does support the S access key. But you have to add the Shift in the middle to make it work.
Users of Internet Explorer 7 can still use the shorter combination
For example, the S access key is implemented in almost all YACS forms, and with Internet Explorer 6, and in Firefox 1 as well, you just had to hit
Alt-S to submit form data to the server. Quite handy, right?Unfortunately, this key combination has been broken with Firefox 2, and we have been looking for another access key for months.
Now the search is over, since Firefox 2 does support the S access key. But you have to add the Shift in the middle to make it work.
Alt-Shift-S is the updated shortcut to submit YACS forms.Users of Internet Explorer 7 can still use the shorter combination
Alt-S to achieve the same result.on Mar. 1 2007
What means web 2.0 to IT professionals?
11:07 pm
Technical buzzwords are blooming these days, but the momentum for simpler tools is real.
Some years ago, Coca-Cola had to introduce sugar-less products, do you remember that? This has been a real issue, not because of the modified production line, but because of the different marketing positioning. Sugar-less products are supposed to provide less, but would customers be ready to pay the same price than before? Managers have scratched their head, and Coca-Cola has launched the light version of their famous beverage. Interestingly enough, many flavours of Coca-Cola co-exist on today markets.
For IT professionals, moving to web 2.0 is like switching from plain sugar to artifical sweetener. This may be a healthy move, but it won't delight the mouth that much...
Let's imagine the situation. After some years of hard practice, you are now recognized as a Lotus Notes or Microsoft Content Server certified professional. You are working in a department where people are significant, or not, based on their spendings in hardware and software. And finally, it took your teams and partners so much time to finalize this web 1.0 installation...
Actually, in this context, the new web wave that is shaping will make you very uncomfortable.
If, on the opposite, you are an IT professional working closely to real business, smiling with happy end users when your solutions solve their daily issues, you may have a lot of fun with the next wave.
Like Ruby on rails, like RSS, like Google Maps, like (put your preferred web 2.0 buzzword here), YACS has been designed to simplify the job of web professionals.
YACS is a compact piece of reference javascript and PHP code that combines best practices in modern web usage. Combination is the most important word of this statement, and the actual engine of YACS power.
We believe that the integration of innovative web technologies into a single product will save you a lot of time, and that you will leverage this time to further engage your customers and end users, and to upsell your business.
If, like us, you value IT users more than their computers, and if our vision suits you, you are very welcome in the world of YACS.
For IT professionals, moving to web 2.0 is like switching from plain sugar to artifical sweetener. This may be a healthy move, but it won't delight the mouth that much...
Let's imagine the situation. After some years of hard practice, you are now recognized as a Lotus Notes or Microsoft Content Server certified professional. You are working in a department where people are significant, or not, based on their spendings in hardware and software. And finally, it took your teams and partners so much time to finalize this web 1.0 installation...
Actually, in this context, the new web wave that is shaping will make you very uncomfortable.
If, on the opposite, you are an IT professional working closely to real business, smiling with happy end users when your solutions solve their daily issues, you may have a lot of fun with the next wave.
Like Ruby on rails, like RSS, like Google Maps, like (put your preferred web 2.0 buzzword here), YACS has been designed to simplify the job of web professionals.
YACS is a compact piece of reference javascript and PHP code that combines best practices in modern web usage. Combination is the most important word of this statement, and the actual engine of YACS power.
We believe that the integration of innovative web technologies into a single product will save you a lot of time, and that you will leverage this time to further engage your customers and end users, and to upsell your business.
If, like us, you value IT users more than their computers, and if our vision suits you, you are very welcome in the world of YACS.
Why a light bulb?
12:41 am
This web site features a nice icon in the link bar, that is also saved in bookmarks by Firefox. But why a light bulb?
There at least two reasons for this choice. First, YACS is bringing a lot of new ideas to the CMS world, and this is reflected into its icon. Second, the little support inside the bulb is shaped as a Y, which is the very first character of YACS...
on Apr. 20 2006
Food for thought on COLLABORATION
01:31 pm
The starting point is a simple mind map
Feel free to contribute to that, with files, comments, or links. The goal is to select and develop new features in YACS to be as supportive as possible of professional collaboration, which is the name used in corporations to designate communities.
Files
on Apr. 10 2006
Les gibis
11:10 pm
Exact contrepoint des Shadoks, les Gibis étaient délicieux..
Êtres à chapeau melon, très intelligents, et extrêmement gentils, ils réussissaient tout ce qu'ils entreprenaient..
Êtres à chapeau melon, très intelligents, et extrêmement gentils, ils réussissaient tout ce qu'ils entreprenaient..
La civilisation Gibi était basée sur la propreté, le perfectionnement, la musique et la danse. Ils se servaient de leur couvre-chef pour se saluer, mais aussi pour se communiquer leurs pensées. Quand un Gibi avait une musique dans la tête, les autres l'entendaient aussitôt par téléchapie, et ne manquaient pas de le remercier en improvisant quelques pas de danse guillerets.. Ils aimaient beaucoup la campagne, et en profitaient pour changer de costume.. en mangeant des fleurs pour avoir un trois-pièces à fleurs, des petits pois pour un ensemble à pois, ou encore des carottes un jour sur deux pour un très joli costume rayé..!
Ils vivaient donc dans la plus parfaite félicité, mais sur une planète plate et instable, ce qui les obligeait à se répartir harmonieusement, sinon la planète penchait et les Gibis qui étaient du mauvais côté glissaient et tombaient dans le vide..
Il décidèrent donc, eux aussi, de quitter leur inconfortable planète et d'aller sur la Terre... Ils n'eurent aucun problème pour construire une super fusée, et produire un carburant très performant, le Cosmogol 999, tant convoité ensuite par les Shadoks...
Lorsque les Shadoks tentèrent de subtiliser leur fusée, les Gibis camouflèrent leur planète avec des feux d'artifice sombres, de telle sorte que si le jour on n'y voyait plus rien, il faisait encore plus nuit la nuit..
Ils s'amusaient beaucoup des échecs répétés de la fusée shadok, et ils n'eurent bien entendu aucune difficulté à gagner la Terre, où ils devinrent très amis avec son propriétaire Gégène..
Leurs chapeaux contenaient des moulins à graines de toutes natures, et il leur fût donc très facile d'embellir l'environnement en y plantant des graines de ville, d'architecture, d'oeuvres d'art, et aussi des graines de monuments historiques...
Les moulins fonctionnaient tout seuls, et pendant ce temps, les Gibis pouvaient tranquillement danser le menuet..
Mais comme ils n'avaient que des solutions et jamais de problème, ils finirent pas s'ennuyer, et connurent la dépression, la maladie, et même la terrible collimbécillose au contact des Shadoks, qu'ils durent fuir après avoir vainement tenté de les aider..
La perfection et la joie n'étaient pas de taille pour lutter contre le Shadoks...
