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DATE: Thursday, May 12 (second Thursday)
TIME: 7 pm ~ 9 pm, doors open at 6:30
VENUE: Temple University Japan (Please note venue change for this meeting.)
COST: 2,000 yen
REGISTRATION: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/cont-ed/seminar
MAP: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/maps/index.html
Internationally recognized expert in standards oriented web design and cascading style sheets (CSS), Eric Meyer, Principal Consultant and founder of Complex Spiral Consulting, will be discussing how your company or website benefits from using Web standards to cut page weight in half, reduced bandwidth consumption and server load, make maintenance easier, speed up page-rendering and response times, and improve accessibility and support for mobile devices without the use of proprietary technology. He will also focus on ways to use standards to speed up design prototyping and user interface testing using standards and CSS.
Please use the registration link so we can determine the room size. TPC members—this is a regular TPC meeting so you only pay what you would normally pay for attending a TPC Meeting.
Very much looking forward to this!! Any plans for a nijikai?
This was a great event. The audience was enraptured; and Meyer spoke for about 90 minutes. Thanks to Mike T for the photos, which will go up on the site as soon as I figure out how.
I was surprised that so many people were interested in Meyer’s presentation soft, which uses CSS (duh) and a browser, some html and some java to give you a powerpoint-ish presentation without the bloat or the bullroar.
Get it here: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
At the nijikai Eric said he didn’t understand people’s aversion to PP. I happened to be sitting next to him at that point and I went off with a string of complaints—it just flowed. I didn’t even know I was that frustrated with Powerpoint much less able to articulate my complaints, but he sure understood. He just looked at me after I ran out of steam and said, “Well, that would be some reasons.” Yee-aaah. I guess it would. His S5 gives me reasons to learn html—that’s for sure. 
Yes, it was indeed fantastic. I got a recording of the whole thing, and Eric gave me permission to put it up online. As soon as I have a chance to edit it I’ll put it up on my site, and probably here too.
Just a quick note, when you get a comment notification, the reply-to address is Sako’s. We’d probably better figure out where it should really go and change that.
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