Category: development
Creating interactive spaces by writing code.
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Zeldman on Talk Radio Today
Live today from 3:00 to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, I’m this week’s guest on “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the leading internet talk radio show on the “challenging and compelling canvas of today’s design world.”
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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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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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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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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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Give HTML e-mail a chance
Ten years into the web standards revolution, e-mail client support for standards remains sketchy. A new group is doing something about it. They need your support.
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Appreciating web design; setting type
Appreciating web design for what it is instead of wishing it were something it’s not; plus a better best practice for setting type on the web via CSS. And from the past: why typographically correct…
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ALA 248: Obscure meanings and addresses
In Issue No. 248 of A List Apart: Make people read your copy! Stop robots from reading your e-mail address!
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Findings from the Web Design Survey
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals participated, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web…
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Not at our desk
Apologies for the quiet, here. We’ve been enjoying family time in San Francisco, leading up to the final Event Apart show of the year.
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An Event Apart savings end tomorrow
$100 savings on our final Event Apart conference of the year end Saturday, September 15. If you’re planning to attend An Event Apart San Francisco, reserve your seat before the price goes up.
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Client input, iPhone constraints
Collaborative work sessions that actually work; designing and coding with the iPhone in mind.
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Event Apart Chicago wrap-up
The sights, sounds, and some of the sense of An Event Apart Chicago 2007.