Category: CSS

  • Three Days in Seattle

    Three Days in Seattle

    Three, count ’em, three days of design, code, and content. That’s what we’ve got lined up for you in beautiful Seattle, Washington. Including a special one-day workshop on HTML5 and CSS3, led by Jeremy Keith…

  • A Feed Apart

    A Feed Apart

    Live from San Francisco, it’s An Event Apart, for people who make websites. If you can’t join us here today and tomorrow, enjoy the live feed, designed and coded by Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl.…

  • Bulletproof @font-face

    Bulletproof @font-face

    Real type on the web. All the kids are doing it. But maybe we’re doing it wrong. After testing several CSS @font-face syntax variants, including one used on this site, Paul Irish says the following…

  • Last Tangle in Firefox

    Last Tangle in Firefox

    Snow Leopard + FontExplorer X screws up fonts in Firefox (especially Helvetica).

  • Web Type: Lupton on Zeldman

    Web Type: Lupton on Zeldman

    Today in Print, Ellen Lupton interviews Jeffrey Zeldman (that’s me) on web typography, web standards, and more. Part one of a two-part interview. Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum…

  • Am I Blue

    Am I Blue

    The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.

  • Chicago Deep Dish

    Chicago Deep Dish

    AEA Chicago, wrapped.

  • Links for a Thursday

    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.”

  • Why Standards Fail

    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…

  • Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup

    Web fonts, HTML 5 roundup

    Excellent, informative third-party posts on web fonts, CSS3, and HTML 5.

  • Web Fonts Now, for real

    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…

  • Firefox test page

    Firefox test page

    Firefox developers, a test page demonstrating the Firefox bug has been created for your browser fixing pleasure.

  • Sour Outlook

    Sour Outlook

    Participate in the Outlook’s Broken project. All it takes is a tweet.

  • Beep

    Beep

    For the third edition of Designing With Web Standards, I’ve brought in a co-author: the brilliant and talented Ethan Marcotte.

  • All About Floats

    All About Floats

    Practically everything you need to know about CSS layout in a single, simple page.