The Daily Report
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NYC Must-See
People who are coming to New York for the first time always ask me what they should see. So I’ve made a little list. Here are eighteen of my favorite places in New York City.
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Cure for the Common Webfont, Part 2: Alternatives to Georgia
For nearly fifteen years, if you wanted to set a paragraph of web text in a serif typeface, the only truly readable option was Georgia. But now, in web type’s infancy, we’re starting to see…
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Episode 30: Jason Santa Maria
JASON SANTA MARIA (website, Twitter) will be our guest Thursday December 9th, 2010 during Episode No. 30 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”), co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and recorded at 1:00 PM…
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Divitis We Fall
Highlight and Note from Michael Thorne (@mikkelz_za) “Another classic example of divitis kicks in when a designer catches the ‘tables are bad, CSS is good’ virus and righteously replaces 200 tons of table markup with…
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iPhone 4 holiday background
Here’s a little something I made for the holidays. Download the original, sync to your iOS 4 device, and enjoy!
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Episode 29: Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, will be our guest Thursday December 2nd, 2010 during Episode No. 29 of The Big Web Show (“Everything Web That Matters”), co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and recorded at 1:00…
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ARIA-WAI cool
Issue No. 319 of A List Apart for people who make websites tackles the intersection between web apps, WAI-ARIA, JavaScript, and accessibility. ARIA and Progressive Enhancement by DEREK FEATHERSTONE For seven years, progressive enhancement has…
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Don’t forget Blue Beanie Day!
The Fourth Annual International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards will be celebrated this Tuesday, November 30. That gives you just over 24 hours to … Take a self-portrait wearing a blue beanie…
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UK Judge: Search is Theft
paidContent UK’s NLA Ruling Summary: How PRs Break Copyright Law Online offers the highlights of a 148-paragraph ruling by the British High Court “that PRs who subscribe to paid news monitors are breaking UK law…
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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…