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Monday, March 30, 2009
I14Y happens
Some years ago, I started to get familiarized with abbreviations like 'l10n', 'i18n' when I started contributing to the translation efforts of Mozilla & Firefox under the NAVE Project.
Some months later I came to know the new term 'a11y', and I started to see it in a lot of places. By that time, I only associated it with the web development world. Terms like "Unobstrusive JavaScript" were very related to it (and I even created an "AJAXy" library called AMUSE for this purpose).
Now let's talk about the next one: I14Y. This concept is present when things like this happen: "I can open an (Microsoft's)OpenXML file with some (Novell's) edition of (Sun's)OpenOffice". Or even more weird things: "I can manage my (Apple's)IPod thanks to a (Microsoft's).NET-powered application called (Novell's)Banshee". Or even more awesome ones: "I can use (Sun?'s)Orca screen reader to control my (Microsoft's)Windows.Forms-powered applications in my (Novell's)SUSE Linux Box!".
So, yeah, we made it! Along with the awesome releases of Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0.
Now, guess what's the word?
Some months later I came to know the new term 'a11y', and I started to see it in a lot of places. By that time, I only associated it with the web development world. Terms like "Unobstrusive JavaScript" were very related to it (and I even created an "AJAXy" library called AMUSE for this purpose).
Now let's talk about the next one: I14Y. This concept is present when things like this happen: "I can open an (Microsoft's)OpenXML file with some (Novell's) edition of (Sun's)OpenOffice". Or even more weird things: "I can manage my (Apple's)IPod thanks to a (Microsoft's).NET-powered application called (Novell's)Banshee". Or even more awesome ones: "I can use (Sun?'s)Orca screen reader to control my (Microsoft's)Windows.Forms-powered applications in my (Novell's)SUSE Linux Box!".
So, yeah, we made it! Along with the awesome releases of Mono 2.4 and MonoDevelop 2.0.
Now, guess what's the word?
Labels: CSharp, General, Ingenieria, Mono, Mozilla, Programacion, SoftwareLibre, WebDev
