Category: Standards
Web standards for design and communication.
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Loving HTML5
Half of standards making is minutia, and the other half is politics. Rightly or wrongly, I’ve always suspected that Atom was born, not so much of necessity, as from ideological conflicts between the XML crowd…
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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.