“We’re a digital agency… and there's two Jakes…”
Last night, I spoke at the latest Opera back standards>next gig, hosted at MadLab in Manchester. Chris Mills put the call out months ago, asking if I'd like to take part, and could I herd up anyone else to speak. I recommended my fellow skating (albeit inline-blader!) and Fudge front-ender Mike Byrne as he's a lively character, and certainly knows his shit, and that made four. Chris kicked off, followed, by myself and Typography Online.
One thing I really like about talking to some of the Opera guys I know, is that they will take the time to consider another viewpoint. Whilst they're all about the open web, they realise they need to listen to people who are making and creating content for clients, but face real world restrictions like time and budget. I know. Ridiculous... We run a business and all this talk about HTML5 <video> tags has kinda riled me a little bit, because it's getting so much exposure, and to be honest I think it's already shot itself in the foot.