Category: Design
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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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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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Web standards secret sauce
Firefox and Opera are great browsers that have greatly advanced the cause of web standards, but because they are choices in a space where most people don’t make choices, their power to convert is necessarily…
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Firefox test page
Firefox developers, a test page demonstrating the Firefox bug has been created for your browser fixing pleasure.
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Firefox forces orange background flash
Imposing an ugly flash of orange background on all readers, using any browser, seemed to be the price necessary to work around a content bug in Firefox.
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Design management
A fine portfolio, delightful career, and the satisfaction of providing a genuine service, can be yours.
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The new old minimalists
Is minimalism in web design back, or did it just never go away?
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Sour Outlook
Participate in the Outlook’s Broken project. All it takes is a tweet.
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Beauty and Code
In Issue No. 286 of A LIST APART, for people who make websites, Patrick Lynch explains why beauty matters in design, and Mark Birbeck introduces us to RDFa (part one of a two-part primer).
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Web standards curriculum
A living, open curriculum to teach students the skills of the web professional.
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Beep
For the third edition of Designing With Web Standards, I’ve brought in a co-author: the brilliant and talented Ethan Marcotte.