The Daily Report
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Big Web Show #28: Finding Your People
In Episode No. 28 of The Big Web Show, Dan Benjamin and I talk about what we’re thankful for, awards, visibility, public speaking (and why you should do it), Pub Standards, meetups (and why you…
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Video: 2010 .net Awards, London
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Web type news: iPhone and iPad now support TrueType font embedding. This is huge.
TrueType font embedding has come to iPhone and iPad, Hallelujah, brothers and sisters. That is to say, Mobile Safari now supports CSS embedding of lower-bandwidth, higher-quality, more ubiquitous TrueType fonts. This is huge. Test on…
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Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.
Now we have something else to be thankful for. Nathan Smith of Sonspring has created a library that gives designers and developers “some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as…
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Celebrate Thanksgiving with The Big Web Show
JOIN DAN BENJAMIN AND ME Thursday 25 November on live.5by5.tv at 1:00 PM Eastern for a special Thanksgiving episode of The Big Web Show. The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”) is recorded live…
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Gift Ideas: Japanese Beauties
“Representing the Japanese ideal of beauty, the women featured in these colorful illustrations and photographs beam with reassuring smiles and glowing complexions. Though haircuts and clothing styles changed through the years, the women’s faces have…
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Help deserving web designers find fame.
THE UNDER-KNOWN HAVE EVERYTHING going for them except recognition. Let’s do something about that. Name talented web designers who deserve wider attention. Include at least one URL and a Twitter-length comment as to why their…
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To my friend who thinks I should not accept awards.
OLIVER REICHENSTEIN—iA to Twitter friends like me—thinks it is wrong for experienced designers to accept design awards. Oliver says: All awards should go from old uncles (like me or @zeldman or who ever) to young…
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Design Agency of the Year
I TOOK THIS PHOTO TONIGHT in London at the 2010 .net Awards, where Happy Cog took home the award for Design Agency of the Year, besting Centersource and our good friends at Clearleft (who took…
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English Letter
Steaming suit, listening to A Love Supreme, watching birds circle rainy plaza in wet grey morning London. Perfect, perfect.
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London Calling
London, 2010 – a travel photo set in progress on Flickr.
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CSS3 & CSS 101 in A List Apart 318
In Issue No. 318 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Noah Stokes (@motherfuton) offers Ye Compleat Refresher Course on CSS Positioning, and we proudly offer an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Dan…
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A Book Apart No. 2: CSS3 For Web Designers, by Dan Cederholm
DAN CEDERHOLM IS THE FIRST front-end developer I’ve ever worked with who got everything right. Typically when one person is designing in Photoshop and another is converting that design to code, the coder makes at…
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Awesome web apps in 10k or less
The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…
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Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart
ATTENTION, web design geeks, contest fans, standards freaks, HTML5ophiles, CSSistas, grammarians, bookworms, UXers, designers, developers, and budding Haikuists. Can you do this? Do not tell me I Am source of your browser woes. Template validates.…