Recognition

Philips GoGear has been awarded by Design Licks as Site of the day on 15 December 2008.

For Carte Noire: Une déclaration nommée désir at the Golden Drum 2008 competition

From Adobe CS4 onwards the Adobe Flash, Flex and DreamWeaver teams officially support SWFObject 2

Web Marketing Association's WebAward in the category Best Beverage Website for Carte Noire: Une déclaration nommée désir

Google now supports Flash indexing for SWF files embedded with SWFObject and confirms that the use of alternative content is a legal web authoring technique

SWFObject 2 features in The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development (p.133-136)

Gold Medal 2008 in the category Multimedia/Web/CD-ROM for the Carte Noire campaign website Une déclaration nommée désir

For SWFObject 2.0: The Fine Art of Embedding Flash Content I received the following feedback:

• Was the speaker knowledgeable on the topic presented? = 9.42
• Did the session meet your expectations? = 9.00
• Did the speaker present the material in a clear and well-organized way? = 8.92
• Please rate the overall effectiveness of the speaker. = 8.58
• This session will affect the way I work: = 7.58
• Over all average = 8.70

In Designing with Web Standards, second edition web standards guru Jeffrey Zeldman recommends both Unobtrusive Flash Objects (p.308) and Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005 (p.367)

Peter-Paul Koch thanks me for being one of his JavaScript fellow travellers in the Word of thanks paragraph of his book PPK on JavaScript

By the Web Marketing Association in the category Design of high quality, usability, interaction and performance for the TomTom corporate website

The JavaScript Anthology credits me for finding a pure JavaScript method to detect the Adobe Flash Player version (p.458) and refers to Unobtrusive Flash Objects as a leading example on how to embed Flash content (p.465)

Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005 was voted best JavaScript article of 2005 by web-graphics.com

UFO hits the blogosphere charts on del.icio.us

Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005 was ranked number 1 on on this social bookmarking website for two consecutive days

Garden Party was printed in the March 2004 edition of Australia's Internet.au magazine as an example of contemporary CSS design

In the conference keynote by Jeffrey Zeldman

JavaScript guru Peter-Paul Koch reviewed all A List Apart JavaScript articles between 21 November 2003 and 18 April 2004 and concluded that Exploring Footers was the best of its class; he rated it as excellent with 26 out of 27 points

In the session Hi-Fi Design with CSS by Dave Shea