Bruno Abrantes

If you’re familiar with designing for the Web, then you’ve probably heard about the principle of Graceful Degradation. This concept focuses on being able to provide a fault-tolerant system, assuring that a system can continue to operate should one of it’s components fail.

Translate that into the Web world, and all it means is that you should somehow support older browsers. You develop using the latest and greatest and then, by the end of the project, you test your product on older browsers, making fixes here and there. Also, you frantically strive to design a wholly equal experience for all the browsers you “support”. What ends up happening is that you get a relatively watered-down experience in all platforms, all because of the need to support older browsers. (…) more after the jump ›

Project Timeframe

November 2008

Motivations

In order to support a growing number of partnerships between SAPO and Portuguese Universities, which resulted in the wide deployment of several lab.sapo Platforms, there was a need to develop a central platform that would aggregate all the content produced on the different platforms.
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Project Timeframe

September 2008 – October 2008

Motivations

The recently established labs.sapo/ua is Portuguese Internet Giant SAPO‘s latest attempt at gaining a foothold in the Higher Education space. The lab is a physical space in the Universidade de Aveiro campus where SAPO supports the development of innovative projects in the Web and Technology fields in tight collaboration with the University itself. In order to promote the initiative building a solid Web presence was top priority. The platform to be developed needed to promote communication with the outside world and shine a light on the various ongoing projects at the lab. With this in mind, me and the rest of the team decided to develop a platform based on WordPress MU that would support an indefinite number of personal and project blogs. This platform would need to be flexible enough to be deployed nearly as-is in a number of situations, such as other Universities or other SAPO sponsored events (as is the case of labs.sapo/codebits and labs.sapo/summerbits).

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If you build websites and enjoy coding according to Web Standards, then you’re probably aware that the XHTML 1.0 Strict specification leaves out a rather common attribute: target, which is used inside <a> tags to specify how the hyperlink should behave. With a value of “_blank“, the hyperlink would open in a new browser window (or tab), which is recommended if the link navigates away from the current site. (…) more after the jump ›

Yup, it’s time for another concert! This time around, Nouvelle Vague will be playing at the Cine Teatro de Estarreja in just a few weeks, on February 7. (…) more after the jump ›