The Daily Report

  • Saving Papers

    Saving Papers

    How to save print.

  • Chicago Sells Out

    Chicago Sells Out

    An Event Apart Chicago has sold out.

  • Let the Users Do It

    Let the Users Do It

    Retrieve user-generated content and embrace user feedback to enhance your designs—just like magic.

  • Search Party

    Search Party

    Triple Issue No. 292 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, is all about search.

  • For your pleasure

    For your pleasure

    Reviving an old zeldman.com tradition, we once again present downloadable desktop images for your computer screen and pleasure. Number one in a series: Meet Harry.

  • Blood and bone

    Blood and bone

    In remembrance.

  • HTML5 Redefines Footer

    HTML5 Redefines Footer

    In response to the Super Friends’ request, the HTML5 working groups have redefined footer. This is a wonderful usability improvement to the spec.

  • HTML5 For Smarties

    HTML5 For Smarties

    The HTML5 specification runs on for over 900 pages, and much of what it covers, while vital to browser makers, is meaningless to people who create websites. If thousands of irrelevant details in the HTML5…

  • 17 Tweets

    17 Tweets

    Just like it says.

  • MFA Interaction Design, Day 1

    MFA Interaction Design, Day 1

    Last night, the School of Visual Arts’ spanking new MFA program in Interaction Design opened its doors to 18 special students.

  • Loving HTML5

    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…

  • DWWS 3e mini-site updates

    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…

  • Kindling II

    Kindling II

    Two salient points, omitted from the previous discussion and verified this morning, are worth mentioning.

  • Cogs at South-by

    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…

  • Kindling

    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…