Category: javascript

  • He Built This City: The Return of Glenn Davis

    He Built This City: The Return of Glenn Davis

    You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of.

  • 2010: The Year in Web Standards

    2010: The Year in Web Standards

    WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…

  • Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.

    Finally, cross-browser visual control over forms.

    Now we have something else to be thankful for. Nathan Smith of Sonspring has created a library that gives designers and developers “some measure of control over form elements, without changing them so drastically as…

  • Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    Awesome web apps in 10k or less

    The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…

  • The future of web standards

    The future of web standards

    “Cheap, complex devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have come along at precisely the moment when HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are ready for action; when standards-based web development is no longer relegated…

  • ALA 313: CS, CMS, H&J, OK!

    ALA 313: CS, CMS, H&J, OK!

    In Issue No. 313 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Better content management systems start with content strategy; typographically beauteous web pages may benefit from hyphenation and justification. Strategic Content Management by…

  • SlideShowPro adds HTML5

    SlideShowPro adds HTML5

    Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code. Being so…

  • A List Apart No. 304

    A List Apart No. 304

    Issue 304 of A List Apart for people who make websites squeezes JavaScript and delves into faceted navigation: Better JavaScript Minification by NICHOLAS C. ZAKAS Like CSS, JavaScript works best when stored in an external…

  • Gowalla My Dreams

    Gowalla My Dreams

    What if Gowalla and Foursquare could communicate seamlessly with Address Book? What if Google Maps contained the postal address, company names, and primary phone numbers of every pin on the map? All this information could…

  • A List Apart 300

    A List Apart 300

    Issue 300 of A List Apart for people who make websites solves password-related usability problems with a dash of JavaScript, and employs content strategy to help your site do the right thing at the right…

  • 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.

  • ALA 290: Motown & JavaScript

    ALA 290: Motown & JavaScript

    R-E-S-P-E-C-T for content strategy, plus Snook on JavaScript MVC. In Issue No. 290 of A List Apart, for people who make websites.