The Daily Report
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Facebook, Twitter, and Bird Flu
If “Our Broken Borders” should someday turn into a ratings loser for CNN’s Lou Dobbs, perhaps he can switch to “The Dwindling Productivity of the American Worker: Is Facebook Sapping Our National Vigor?”
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Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers…
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ALA 252: New library, long hallway
Keep your markup clean with DOM scripting and learn to play nice in the long hallway.
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All Bits on Deck!
We’re as pleased as pale punch to welcome web designer, CSS whiz, microformats monger, icon designer, outstanding public speaker, and best-selling CSS-design-book author Dan Cederholm and his freshly redesigned SimpleBits site to The Deck, our…
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In defense of version targeting
We knew when we published this issue of A List Apart that it would light a match to the gaseous underbelly of standards-based web design, but we thought more than a handful of readers would…
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Not your father’s standards switch
For seven years, the DOCTYPE switch has stood designers and developers in good stead as a toggle between standards mode and quirks mode. But when IE7 “broke the web,” the quest was on to find…
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The no-access road
A stranger and I just helped a disabled lady in a motorized scooter mount the inaccessible curb adjoining the treatment center for disabled people in wheelchairs and scooters. The medical center has been there for…
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Girl. Dog. Night. Day.
A series of incidents.
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Usability problems with .Mac sync
I’m afraid this is another of those entries outlining bizarre design decisions and perplexing usability quirks in the otherwise brilliant world of Apple computers and phones
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Everything that can be iPhonelike, will be
The iPhone is too great a leap forward in interface design to be confined to, well, the iPhone.
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An Event Apart New Orleans
An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, kicks off its 2008 season with An Event Apart New Orleans, a monster, 19-hour, two-day creative session. Join us April 24–25 at the Hilton…
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Self-publishing is the new blogging
When you’ve flown this far from Gutenberg, the only place to travel is back.
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Morning has broken
A technological lament in eight Tweets.
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Let me hear your standards body talk
Jeremy Keith’s “Year Zero” beautifully explains why the W3C needs our backs, not our bullets.
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Re: CSS Unworking Group
Proposing change when the change makes sense is good. Proposing change because you are disappointed and frustrated isn’t good enough.