Category: Standards

Web standards for design and communication.

  • Boston Bound

    Boston Bound

    Morning finds me bound by train for Boston, capital of Massachusetts, land of Puritans, patriots, and host of the original Tea Party. Center of high technology and higher education. Where the John Hancock Tower signs…

  • AEA Minneapolis

    AEA Minneapolis

    An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days…

  • State of Web Development 2010

    State of Web Development 2010

    The report from Web Directions’ second “State of Web Development” survey covers “technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices” employed by today’s web professionals. Download the complete (anonymized) set of responses in CSV format, gaze fondly at a…

  • Opera loves my web font

    Opera loves my web font

    And so do my iPhone and your iPad. All it took was a bit o’ the old Richard Fink syntax and a quick drive through the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Kit Generator (featuring Base 64 encoding…

  • Courts Imperil Net Neutrality

    Courts Imperil Net Neutrality

    In a ruling that could derail the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to craft net neutrality rules, a federal appeals court said Tuesday that the agency lacked authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer traffic. … Broadband…

  • An Event Apart Seattle

    An Event Apart Seattle

  • Web Standards Trinkets

    Web Standards Trinkets

    Support Web Standards: A collection of limited edition products, created so you can show your love and support for web standards.

  • Test Print

    Test Print

    Coming soon to a web store near you.

  • Crowdsourcing Dickens

    Crowdsourcing Dickens

    As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens’s musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict…

  • My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit

    My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit

    GEORGIA and Verdana, Lucida and (to a lesser extent) Arial and Times New Roman have served us well. For fifteen years, these cross-platform default fonts have been faithful stewards of our desire to read, write,…

  • 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…

  • IE9 preview

    IE9 preview

    Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just the flames? In An Early Look At IE9 for Developers, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for Internet Explorer, reports on performance progress, web standards progress (border-radius,…

  • E-books, Flash, and Standards

    E-books, Flash, and Standards

    In Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they…

  • Digital books: the medium changes the message

    Digital books: the medium changes the message

    “Content with form—Definite Content—is almost totally the opposite of Formless Content. Most texts composed with images, charts, graphs or poetry fall under this umbrella. It may be reflowable, but depending on how it’s reflowed, inherent…

  • Model Site

    Model Site

    Web designer Joshua Lane, currently best know for doing fancy web stuff at Virb.com, has overhauled his personal site in ways that are aesthetically pleasing and visually instructive. Like all good site redesigns, this one…