Category: Standards
Web standards for design and communication.
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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.
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Click My Lit Panel
In “New Publishing and Web Content,” a SXSW Interactive Panel, I will lead publisher and entrepreneur Lisa Holton, creative director and designer Mandy Brown, novelist and Harper’s editor (plus big web geek) Paul Ford, and…
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Shorten this
Roll your own mini-URLs.
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Why Standards Fail
An old (2000) essay by CSS co-creator Bert Bos, ostensibly written to explain the principles behind W3C standards development, actually sheds light on what separates great design from the muck we normally wade through. It…
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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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Web Fonts Now, for real
David Berlow of The Font Bureau has proposed a Permissions Table for OpenType that can be implemented immediately to turn raw fonts into web fonts without any wrappers or other nonsense. If adopted, it will…
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HTML 5 is a mess. Now what?
Lawson explains just why HTML 5 is a mess. And I ponder what we should do about it. Moving forward, compatibly.
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HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved
An e-mail from Chairman Hickson resolves an ambiguity in the nav element of HTML 5.
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In defense of web developers
XHTML 1.0 is not dead, and people who use it are not fools.
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Sour Outlook
Participate in the Outlook’s Broken project. All it takes is a tweet.
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NSFW tag in HTML 5
A “Not Safe for Work” Tag has been proposed for HTML5.
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.net interview
“There was a point in the 90s when I felt like a sucker for doing HTML and CSS.”
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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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A new answer to the IE6 question?
Andy Clarke proposes a novel approach to the problem of IE6.
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AEA Seattle after-report
Relive those AEA Seattle memories (or enjoy the show vicariously) via sketches, photos, and Tweets.