The Daily Report
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iPad Fonts Petition
Dear Apple: It is a triumph of engineering and marketing and general cause for joy that Apple provides highly functional iPad versions of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers for a mere $9.99 apiece. Alas, the iPad…
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How to use TextMate
For nearly 13 years, I created websites with PageSpinner, a charmingly old-fashioned HTML coding environment from the days of Netscape 1.0. But two years ago, seeking updated web page encoding and other modern conveniences, I…
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Like a prayer
An essay in three tweets: Morality isn’t how you think, it’s what you do about your violent carnal greedy cowardly natural impulses. # Good religion attempts to explain our deep connection to others. Bad religion…
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Social Network Creep
If you’re intrigued, as I am, by the trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming The Social Network, and if part of what compels you about the trailer is the musical score—a choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep”—you’ll…
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We’re speechless
In What I learned at An Event Apart Minneapolis, Marc Drummond writes: A really good session, in my opinion, is not about the how, it’s about the why. … A really good session, through arguments…
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I guest-edit .net magazine
A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly.…
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HTML5, CSS3 default templates
Free for use in all web projects, professional or personal, HTML5 Reset by Monkey Do! is a set of HTML5 and CSS templates that jumpstart web development by removing the styling native to each browser,…
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Return to Sender
About 40 copies of HTML5 For Web Designers out of the first 10,000 sold have been returned to us because the recipients moved, or there was an error in their address. Returns come from every…
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The Big Web Show Episode 16: Serious Doodles
Sunni Brown (website, Twitter) is our guest on Thursday’s episode of The Big Web Show, co-hosted by Dan Benjamin and taped in front of a live internet audience. Sunni is a business owner, author, and…
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Color logos
Gosh knows how they reproduce in newspaper or how effectively they can be translated into favicons, but there’s no denying that there are some lovely works in Wsblogz.com’s gallery of color logos.
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Earliest Web Doc is HTML5
“Links and Anchors,” the very first document published on the web, is almost valid HTML5. Hat tip: Jeremy Keith. P.S. Got yours yet?
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The Big Web Show Episode 15: Social Media, Social Capital
Tara Hunt, social media entrepreneur, author of The Whuffie Factor, cofounder of Citizen Agency, and one of Fast Company’s “women in tech—nine thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology” is our guest on…
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A List Apart 311: Say No to Clients and Kick Ass
Something remarkable awaits you in Issue No. 311 of A List Apart for people who make websites. Two wonderfully readable articles tackle the thorny subject of client relationships, providing practices, insights, and tips which, when…
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HTML5 Fuzzies
Yesterday, in response to something Tantek Çelik said here, Jeff Croft wrote a thoughtfully provocative piece arguing that informed web designers should encourage—or at least not worry about—the widespread misuse of the term “HTML5” as…
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HTML5 Test
How well does your browser support HTML5? Find out by visiting html5test.com, created by Niels Leenheer with thanks to Henri Sivonen and his HTML5 parser tests. Hat tip: Ralph Resnik.