Journal tags: highlandfling07

I had the honour of opening up the Highland Fling with a short sharp keynote on the history of progressive enhancement. As always, I enjoyed presenting though I’m not sure if the silence emanating from the audience was due to rapt attention or boredom. Once the audio is available, you can decide for yourself.

I’ll get the audio transcribed as usual. In the meantime, there isn’t much point offering up the slides as they don’t contain much information. Instead I’ll list out some of the things that I mentioned in the talk.

Music and books

• Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) by Igor Stravinsky
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
• Why I Write by George Orwell
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delaney
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore

Links

• Fray
• Verso (archived)
• Webdesign-L
• Webmonkey
• Inclusive Web Design for the Future with Progressive Enhancement

I’m back in Brighton after a long weekend in auld reekie. I paid a visit to Greyfriars cemetery, the Royal Museum, toured the vaults and took in the many sights along the Royal Mile.

In amongst all of these tourist activities I enjoyed the geeky goodness of The Highland Fling followed by Refresh Edinburgh. Both were nice intimate gatherings. Both were also recorded for future podcasting. In the meantime, here are some of the presentation slides:

• The Future of CSS by Andy B.
• Graded Browser Support and Progressive Enhancement by Norm!
• Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript by Chris Heilmann
• Revish by Dan Champion