The Daily Report
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A List Apart No. 304
Issue 304 of A List Apart for people who make websites squeezes JavaScript and delves into faceted navigation: Better JavaScript Minification by NICHOLAS C. ZAKAS Like CSS, JavaScript works best when stored in an external…
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Gawdz of Rawk!
Gawdz of Rawk on Flickr
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Go fly a kite
Oops! I forgot to write a blog post about the new $100 bill when I tweeted about it last night. It’s ugly as hell. And a perfect example of design-by-committee.
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Stop chasing followers
The internet is not a numbers game. It’s about dialog, persuasion, and influence. You don’t want a million people reading your HTML5 blog. You want members of the HTML5 working groups and key influencers from…
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Touch Gesture Reference Guide
The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces including iPhone, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, Android, and more. The guide contains an…
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My glamorous life
My small old shi’zu watches intently as I embed the five pills that keep him alive in little balls of hypoallergenic canned food—a process that takes five minutes and must be repeated three times a…
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Link Relations in HTML5
Mark Pilgrim has turned the WHAT Working Group’s blog into a tool of genuine outreach and tremendously helpful (even entertaining) information. His “Road to HTML5” column “explain[s] … new elements, attributes, and other features in…
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Verdana Pro (and Con)
Although Matthew Carter is overseeing the project and David Berlow of The Font Bureau is leading development, I’m feeling twitchy about Verdana Pro, a new print family from an old screen face. Start there: Verdana…
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Mr on the Microphone
Mister on the Microphone on Flickr. AKA prepping for The Big Web Show, coming very, very soon.
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Sleep never sleeps
Dreamed my parents were getting divorced. I’d be asking my momma why, and she would turn into my wife. The conscious mind deals with what is in front of you, the unconscious processes what has…
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Web charts with HTML5 + Flash
ZingChart hopes to end the war between HTML5 and Flash in web-based charting: Today we launched the first charting library that renders charts and graphs in both HTML5 <canvas> and Flash. Rather than join the…
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The Big Web Show is coming!
Calling all ears! Calling all eyes! The Big Web Show is coming! The Big Web Show is coming! Hosted by Dan Benjamin (creator of The Pipeline) and yours truly and produced by 5by5 Studios, The…
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Design Lessons from iPad
It’s only Wednesday but we already have our link of the week. Although they call it merely a “quick write-up” (and it is a fast read), iA’s mini-compendium of design insights before and after the…
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Layer Tennis Around the World
Around the world in ten layers with Coudal Partners: Ten designers in ten cities, fifteen minutes at a time. A single Photoshop file will circumnavigate the globe starting in Portland and ending in Tokyo with…
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Clark on Apple’s weak type
Apple has a typography desk. It is not exactly crowded with developers vying for every square centimetre, but it really exists. Have you ever heard of it? … Then compare Microsoft, which has two divisions…