The Daily Report
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Links for a Thursday
Free tool to create EOT Lite webfonts; interview with CSS web comic whiz; Apple exonerated of censoring iPhone dictionary; “a new breed of documentary photographers.”
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Past Blast
We’ve got mail!
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ALA 289: Redesign yourself
In Issue No. 289 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: 90% of web design is redesign. The hardest redesigns are the ones you do for yourself. In this special issue, we look…
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Happy Cog and Airbag merge
Happy Cog™ and Airbag Industries, two leading and influential web design firms, announce that they are merging, effective today, August 3, 2009. The resulting super-agency will be called Happy Cog, and will maintain studios in…
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The Amanda Project
Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a media social network, writing project, and book series combined.
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Editorial Intern Wanted
We’re looking for one good intern. Experience the publication process from first draft through galleys and launch; learn from industry and community leaders who are funny, smart, and nice.
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Dear Daddy
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In-Box Twenty
What’s inside.
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Why Standards Fail
An old (2000) essay by CSS co-creator Bert Bos, ostensibly written to explain the principles behind W3C standards development, actually sheds light on what separates great design from the muck we normally wade through. It…
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ALA 288: Access & semantics
In Issue No. 288 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: How to integrate accessibility with front-end development instead of treating it as an afterthought—an item on a checklist. And why not every…
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Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup
Excellent, informative third-party posts on web fonts, CSS3, and HTML 5.
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Web Fonts Now, for real
David Berlow of The Font Bureau has proposed a Permissions Table for OpenType that can be implemented immediately to turn raw fonts into web fonts without any wrappers or other nonsense. If adopted, it will…
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Brighter Planet beta
The Happy Cog-designed social network for Brighter Planet is now in public beta. Come on down, kick the tires, and hang out with like-minded people.
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HTML 5 is a mess. Now what?
Lawson explains just why HTML 5 is a mess. And I ponder what we should do about it. Moving forward, compatibly.
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Pain is my alarm clock
The pain that wakes me comes with the territory. The pain is good pain. It is the pain of taking care of yourself. The pain of recovery.