John Allsopp

03 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment

by jilliansavage in College Related

A few months ago our class had the pleasure of visiting with John Allsopp, who was here for Amped! in Atlanta on the 25th. He spoke to our class for about an hour. He is the author of Developing With Web Standards, and a CSS3 & HTML5 specialist. He does live all the way in Australia so it was a real treat to meet him face to face.

His inspirations come from what he sees, on the web and in his travels. When he talked to our class there were a few things he shared that were very interesting.  He has a basic list of how the web drives him and how technology will also move us.

His first one was interoperability, where people are able to interact with each other over the web, like on facebook. Adaptability, when technology is adapting to the your needs, growing as you grow. He also hit on accessibility and how the web is for everyone. Which means anyone, be they color blind or disabled, has a right to use the web to its fullest. Internationalization, using the technology to help get over language barriers. he ended with the idea of openness, that the web has an economic value. The web is basically unbeatable and everyone shares in its technology.

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