Year: 2009
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HTML 5 is a mess. Now what?
Lawson explains just why HTML 5 is a mess. And I ponder what we should do about it. Moving forward, compatibly.
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Pain is my alarm clock
The pain that wakes me comes with the territory. The pain is good pain. It is the pain of taking care of yourself. The pain of recovery.
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HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved
An e-mail from Chairman Hickson resolves an ambiguity in the nav element of HTML 5.
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Web standards secret sauce
Firefox and Opera are great browsers that have greatly advanced the cause of web standards, but because they are choices in a space where most people don’t make choices, their power to convert is necessarily…
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Firefox test page
Firefox developers, a test page demonstrating the Firefox bug has been created for your browser fixing pleasure.
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Firefox forces orange background flash
Imposing an ugly flash of orange background on all readers, using any browser, seemed to be the price necessary to work around a content bug in Firefox.
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In defense of web developers
XHTML 1.0 is not dead, and people who use it are not fools.
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XHTML DOA WTF
1999: XHTML is the language of the web’s future. 2009: Not so much.
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Design management
A fine portfolio, delightful career, and the satisfaction of providing a genuine service, can be yours.
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The new old minimalists
Is minimalism in web design back, or did it just never go away?
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Sour Outlook
Participate in the Outlook’s Broken project. All it takes is a tweet.
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Beauty and Code
In Issue No. 286 of A LIST APART, for people who make websites, Patrick Lynch explains why beauty matters in design, and Mark Birbeck introduces us to RDFa (part one of a two-part primer).
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Web standards curriculum
A living, open curriculum to teach students the skills of the web professional.
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Beep
For the third edition of Designing With Web Standards, I’ve brought in a co-author: the brilliant and talented Ethan Marcotte.
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Redesigned
The zeldman.com redesign is up.