Category: Standards

Web standards for design and communication.

  • iPad as the new Flash

    iPad as the new Flash

    iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in…

  • Paul Ford on The Big Web Show

    Paul Ford on The Big Web Show

    Paul Ford is our guest on The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at 1:00 PM ET tomorrow, 14 October 2010, on the 5by5 network at live.5by5.tv. Paul is a freelance writer…

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    No comment.

    See also: Internet Explorer usage falls below 50%.

  • 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…

  • HTML5 For Web Designers is a hit in the US iTunes store.

    HTML5 For Web Designers is a hit in the US iTunes store.

  • 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…

  • HTML5 For Web Designers: The eBook

    HTML5 For Web Designers: The eBook

    Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers is now available as an epub at books.alistapart.com. If you bought the paperback, watch your inbox for a special discount on the ebook. (To take advantage of this offer,…

  • I guest-edit .net magazine

    I guest-edit .net magazine

    A List Apart and .net magazine have long admired each other. So when .net editor Dan Oliver did me the great honor of asking if I wished to guest edit an issue, I saluted smartly.…

  • HTML5, CSS3 default templates

    HTML5, CSS3 default templates

    Free for use in all web projects, professional or personal, HTML5 Reset by Monkey Do! is a set of HTML5 and CSS templates that jumpstart web development by removing the styling native to each browser,…

  • 10K Apart – inspire the web!

    10K Apart – inspire the web!

    Just launched and just wonderful! The 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart hearkens back to Stewart Butterfield’s 5k Contest of yesteryear while anticipating the…

  • CSS3: Love vendor prefixes, resize full-screen backgrounds

    CSS3: Love vendor prefixes, resize full-screen backgrounds

    Learn to love vendor prefixes and create full-screen backgrounds that resize to fit the viewport in Issue No. 309 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Prefix or Posthack by ERIC MEYER Vendor…

  • 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…

  • Web Standards Italian Style

    Web Standards Italian Style

    Sviluppare Siti Con Gli Standard Web: Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition, Italian translation. Shop for it. Prefer English? Order from Amazon.com Order from Barnes & Noble Order the Kindle Edition

  • Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Above, page one of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as seen in Stanza, a free reader for iPad and iPhone. Stanza has a simple…

  • A Feed Apart 2.0

    A Feed Apart 2.0

    As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application,…