I recent­ly ran into a prob­lem involv­ing the removeEventListener() method, which caused me a good half an hour of con­fu­sion before a light­bulb appeared above my head and I was enlight­ened by a solu­tion — a solu­tion which, it must be said, is very obvi­ous in hind­sight. So doubt­less many peo­ple know this already, but I’m record­ing it here along with anoth­er approach I thought of after­wards, in the hope that they may be use­ful to some­one in the future.

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Next month I’ll have the plea­sure of tak­ing part in CSS Day in Ams­ter­dam, not once, but twice. On Fri­day 14th June I’ll be on stage along­side a tru­ly stel­lar line-up of speak­ers: Eric Mey­er, Bert Bos, Stephen Hay, Divya Man­ian, Tab Atkins, Daniel Glaz­man and Lea Ver­ou. Each of us will be look­ing in detail at a spe­cif­ic mod­ule (or mod­ules) of the CSS spec; my talk will be on the Ani­ma­tions and Tran­si­tions mod­ules. If you’re into CSS in a big way, this day is one you won’t want to miss.

On the pre­vi­ous day, Thurs­day 13th June, I’ll be giv­ing a one-day Respon­sive Web Design work­shop, where I’ll be teach­ing the full process of cre­at­ing a respon­sive web­site: plan­ning and strat­e­gy, pro­to­typ­ing, tools, design deliv­er­ables, and, of course, cod­ing. Alter­na­tive­ly, if your CSS is not quite up to scratch and you need a refresh­er before the con­fer­ence, Eric Mey­er will be giv­ing a work­shop which will teach you all you need to know.

Each work­shop costs €300, and the con­fer­ence day costs €250 (Dutch VAT of 21% will be added to both). Full details, pro­gramme and tick­ets are all on CSSDay.nl, along with a nice lit­tle East­er egg I found out about today: click on a speak­ers name on the Pro­gramme page to see some live exam­ples of their cho­sen subject!

Oh, and as if my con­fer­ence and some fan­tas­tic talks weren’t enough, as a bonus you get to spend a few days in beau­ti­ful Ams­ter­dam. I’m real­ly excit­ed to be a part of this, and hope to see you there!

I’m extreme­ly hap­py to announce that I’ve been asked to speak at CSS Day, a one-day event in June that explores CSS in advanced detail, in the com­pa­ny of an array of amaz­ing speak­ers: Lea Ver­ou, Eric Mey­er, Bert Bos, Tab Atkins, Divya Man­ian, Stephen Hay, and Daniel Glaz­man. Wow.

I’ll be dis­cussing the intri­ca­cies and secrets of the Ani­ma­tions and Tran­si­tions mod­ules, while each of the oth­er speak­ers will also cov­er a sin­gle top­ic in great detail. It promis­es to be a real­ly good day. Tick­ets cost €250 (plus 21 per­cent tax).

The day before CSS Day there are also two work­shops: Eric Mey­er will explain the basics of each of the mod­ules to be explained the fol­low­ing day, in case you’re wor­ried about not being able to fol­low some of the talks, while I’ll be teach­ing Respon­sive Web Design tech­niques and approach­es. Tick­ets for each work­shop cost €300 (plus tax).

And just a reminder that I’ll be speak­ing at Future of Web Design in Lon­don in May, where I’ll also be giv­ing a one-day work­shop on CSS3 the day before. If you book now you get the work­shop plus two days of con­fer­ence for only £595 (plus tax).

This week­end I attend­ed the Lon­don Web Stan­dards group’s State of the Brows­er, a one-day event with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of many of the major brows­er mak­ers giv­ing us sta­tus reports on their prod­ucts. Chrome, Fire­fox, Opera and Black­ber­ry were all there; a mem­ber of the IE team was due to show but had to pull out for per­son­al rea­sons (he viewed the live stream and answered some ques­tions from home). The notable absence was Safari, whose com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment is real­ly not good enough.

There were long talks and short­er break­out ses­sions, as well as plen­ty of time to socialise; the LWS must real­ly be con­grat­u­lat­ed on organ­is­ing such a good event. There was plen­ty of news and talk­ing points through­out the day — far too much, real­ly, for me to write here, so I’ll just write up notes of what I found most inter­est­ing to me.

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Usu­al­ly when I attend @media (that is, on two pre­vi­ous occa­sions) I write a fol­low-up blog post on what I saw there. Well I attend­ed this year, and I’ve writ­ten the post, but it’s on the blog of my employ­er, Pre­loaded: HTML5, Mobile, and UCD: what we saw at @media.

As is cus­tom­ary (or as cus­tom­ary as ‘twice’ can be), here is a quick round-up of the ses­sions I attend­ed at @media this year, with links to slides where avail­able (which, as I type this, is pret­ty much unavailable).

Ses­sions which I found par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ing should be cov­ered in more detail lat­er, and I’ll update here as I find more presentations.

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