the Daily Report
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A bug in Google Chrome
For web standards and web content, we once again live in interesting times. Welcome, Chrome!
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Tracking Elections From the Ground Up
PollTrack is a new website that combines poll tracking data and written analysis to decipher “what voters are actually thinking and feeling” in the lead-up to the election.
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A Town Called Gale
Has your child committed murder? Move to Gale!
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Save the Accessibility Institute
Join Knowbility in urging the University of Texas to reconsider its decision to close the Accessibility Institute, founded and led with distinction by the late Dr. John Slatin. Sign the petition.
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SiteAssist Professional
Released Wednesday, August 27th, SiteAssist Professional creates entire CSS-based websites in minutes. Since that sounds ridiculous and impossible, I’ll say it again: the product creates CSS-based websites in minutes.
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Running woman and madman
Two incidents mark my morning walk to work.
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ALA 266: next generation sprites, metaphors
CSS Sprites, the next generation. Cartography, the next metaphor for webmaking. Dave Shea and Aaron Rester aim high and score in Issue No. 266 of A List Apart, for people who make websites.
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Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco
Take a dip in the Flickr photo pool from An Event Apart San Francisco 2008. Day Two is about to begin.
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Jubilat!
Darden Studio has relaunched its website and released Jubilat, a fabulous slab serif. We’ve been beta-testing Jubilat all year; it’s my principal typeface for An Event Apart in 2008. (Last year’s principal An Event Apart…
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In the bag
Early tomorrow, I leave for San Francisco. Headed into my laptop bag, along with my MacBook, are… An iPod Classic containing 8624 “songs” (I like music) and 46 “movies.” Sample titles: A Mighty Wind, A…
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Books-a-Million
Pssst. New Happy Cog Studios design. Books-A-Million Online Bookstore. It looks even better when you start using it. Details soon at happycog.com.
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ALA No. 265: better experience
A List Apart No. 265 is about improving user experience for the deaf and discussion for all.
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Pick a Panel
The SXSW panel picker launched today. SXSW Interactive is probably the world’s biggest web shebang, and the panel picker is how the festival begins winnowing out which panels, out of hundreds submitted, will actually be…
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Zing
The notion that usability is the easy part—something you just add on after doing the hard part of writing the code—is hardly limited to the open source community.
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The Survey for People Who Make Websites
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of…