Design Archives

Web Fonts Now, for real

16 July 2009

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…

HTML 5 is a mess. Now what?

16 July 2009

Lawson explains just why HTML 5 is a mess. And I ponder what we should do about it. Moving forward, compatibly.

Web standards secret sauce

12 July 2009

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…

Firefox test page

9 July 2009

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

Firefox forces orange background flash

8 July 2009

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.

Design management

2 July 2009

A fine portfolio, delightful career, and the satisfaction of providing a genuine service, can be yours.

The new old minimalists

30 June 2009

Is minimalism in web design back, or did it just never go away?

Sour Outlook

24 June 2009

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

Beauty and Code

24 June 2009

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).