You can get a taste of his style by poking around YouTube. I’m going to try and keep an eye out for another event of his, even if it means traveling a bit to get there.

• In the comments for Eric Meyer’s AEA Boston followup post was a reference to the “universal selector” code that I mentioned last time. This reminds me, I need to look closer at using the YUI Grids CSS next time I do a layout. His presentation on day 2 covered the use of CSS selectors for debugging in IE7, as well as Dean Edwards IE7 scripts.
• Cameron Moll touched on how to greyscale then blur an image of a site to evaluate design, navigation, etc. Others had mentioned this on day one as well. Mr. Moll also suggested Bruce Tognazzini’s article, The First Principals of Design.
• I really need to pick up a copy of Elements of Typographic Style. I did finally pick up a copy of the Rhino while I was there.
• Ethan Marcotte pointed us to an interview with Mike Davidson regarding the ESPN.com adoption of web standards in their redesign. Some of the resources and tools he suggested included Position Is Everything, how to use conditional comments in IE, and the IE developer toolbar.
• Jeffrey Zeldman delivered a wonderful presentation on Selling Design. A few of my favorite slides said things like “Build the relationship before you show the design”, and “Sell ideas not pixels”. I also really enjoyed the notes and links in the example client presentation he referenced. It was really interesting to see the process by which the Happy Cog folks comp up designs and interect with clients.

Mr. Zeldman has a nice collection of followup posts, photos, slides, and commentary.

Update: Eric Meyer has been working on his own version of a css “reset” stylesheet.

Eric Meyer kicked things off with a star wars themed slide then quickly got down to business, showing how you can mark up a table, and use css to display the content as a bar chart, like this example. He also talked about ways to “reset” the browser’s default css. I’m looking forward to his promised “really large group selector” he mentioned he would provide at the end of his talk today, since writing a selector that lists the majority of DOM elements in the HTML spec sounds rather, well, icky.

Jason Santa Maria offered a wonderful look into the design process, including the use of a “grey box comp” – almost a pre-comp, to help with setting up a layout. He also had some insightful things to say about using grids in layouts, as well as typography.

Andrew Kirkpatrick delivered an overview of issues involved with web application accessibility. A lot of the examples he gave used Yahoo! YUI libraries, but he mentioned that Dojo is the most accessibility-friendly library out there as of yet. His demonstrations included using the JAWS screenreader aplication to look at different javascript/ajax widgets, including sliders, trees, and accordions. To get readers to better speak an element, you can sometimes overload it’s name. There are also a few tricks to get screen readers to refresh their “caches”, since apparently once they load a page, they’re not always responsive to change on the page (i.e. if you’re modifying elements of the DOM). These tricks include modifying the class name and toggling display:none/block of DOM elements to get it to re-recognize those elements on the page.

Dan Cederholm had, by far, the shiniest, Web 2.0–ish slides. His was a fun presentation, and a great way to wrap up the day. Aside from a lot of wonderful design and typography tips, he talked a lot about microformats. Toward the end he mentioned a service/tool called SPARQLer, which has piqued my interest.

Just wanted to jot down a few notes here before turning in for the night.