the Daily Report
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Loving HTML5
Half of standards making is minutia, and the other half is politics. Rightly or wrongly, I’ve always suspected that Atom was born, not so much of necessity, as from ideological conflicts between the XML crowd…
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DWWS 3e mini-site updates
The new mini-site for the 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards has been updated, with additional information about the substantially revised web standards guidebook, and with tweaks to the CSS which, one hopes, now…
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Kindling II
Two salient points, omitted from the previous discussion and verified this morning, are worth mentioning.
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Cogs at South-by
With over 2,000 proposed panels from which a mere 300 will be culled, there’s no shortage of content for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Panels featuring Happy Cog personnel include the juicy…
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Kindling
The process by which books are converted to Kindle format introduces errors which do not get corrected. Every publisher knows this, though none will say so on record. The problem is one of economics. The…
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What’s new in DWWS 3e
The 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards is coming soon to a bookstore near you. This significant revision to the foundational web standards text is packed with new ideas.
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As You Were
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ALA 290: Motown & JavaScript
R-E-S-P-E-C-T for content strategy, plus Snook on JavaScript MVC. In Issue No. 290 of A List Apart, for people who make websites.
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Click My Lit Panel
In “New Publishing and Web Content,” a SXSW Interactive Panel, I will lead publisher and entrepreneur Lisa Holton, creative director and designer Mandy Brown, novelist and Harper’s editor (plus big web geek) Paul Ford, and…
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Web fonts and standards
Will middlemen help or hurt the adoption of web font licensing standards and cross-browser support?
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Vote for best of web
Whereas awards for graphic design, art direction, and advertising routinely honor the finest work in their respective fields each year, awards for web work disappoint. The .net magazine awards 2009 are that rare exception, put…
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Styles Council
I just spent an intense and magical two days discussing web standards with Nicole Sullivan, Dan Cederholm, Jeremy Keith, Eric Meyer, Wendy Chisholm, Tantek Çelik, and Ethan Marcotte in Happy Cog’s New York studio. (Photos.)
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it takes a train
When asked why there’s so much pain Jesus and Buddha will tell me the same: “Shit happens, and people change.”
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Shorten this
Roll your own mini-URLs.
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NYC microformats workshop
Attend the first-ever microformats workshop to be held in New York City. n Event Apart fans get 40% off the advance price of $195 (regular $375) with discount code aea40 when you order by midnight…