Category: development
Creating interactive spaces by writing code.
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More Mod on the Digital Book
A Reading Heatmap: Key passages illuminated by layering all readers’ highlights for the same text. LAST MONTH, he wowed us with Books in the Age of the iPad, a call to make digital books as…
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An Event Apart Seattle
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Ahem
The first part of my post of 1 February was not an attack on Flash. It described a way of working with Flash that also supports users who don’t have access to Flash. I’ve followed…
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SVG: A Second Look
In a special double issue of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Shelley Powers takes a second look at SVG and likes what she sees. You may, too. Many of us think of…
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A List Apart Arabic
Since 1998, A List Apart has sought to serve the international web design and development community with educational, insightful, and sometimes visionary articles on web standards, emerging ideas and technologies, and best practices in content,…
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Kickstart Sundman’s Creation
John Sundman is looking for your financial support so he can finish writing and publish his fourth novel, Creation Science.
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Am I Blue
The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.
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Chicago Deep Dish
AEA Chicago, wrapped.
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The Amanda Project
Designed by Happy Cog and launched today, The Amanda Project is a media social network, writing project, and book series combined.
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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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Beep
For the third edition of Designing With Web Standards, I’ve brought in a co-author: the brilliant and talented Ethan Marcotte.
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“Google Bets Big on HTML 5”
Striving to avoid the mistake Microsoft made when it bet on binary applications over the web, Google is counting on HTML 5 adoption to expand the capability of web applications.
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Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)
Fonts you can legally embed in your website using the CSS standard @font-face method. Why you’d want to. State of the art.
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Floats, clears, and color flashes
Fixed orange background flash on redesign without resorting to “:after” clearing.
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A new answer to the IE6 question?
Andy Clarke proposes a novel approach to the problem of IE6.