Category: Web Design History
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Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room
My friend, the content strategist Kristina Halvorson, likes to call content “the elephant in the room” of web design. She means it’s the huge problem that no one on the web development team or client…
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Blue Beanie Day 2009
Bonne journée du chapeau bleu! Now you know how to say “Happy Blue Beanie Day” in French. Monday 30 November is International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards. Get your toque on, post…
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A Zing Too Far
Fred Blasdel said: You’ll always draw ire for having stumbled into being the Chief of the cargo-cult side of Web Standards, with so-called ‘XHTML’ as the false idol. You did a lot of good, but…
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FontShop Fonts on the Web
FontShop announces that they are ready to deliver their font library as web type: [S]tarting today, Typekit users can pick from dozens of FontFonts, including FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Netto. Plus, the Typekit…
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Web Type: Lupton on Zeldman
Today in Print, Ellen Lupton interviews Jeffrey Zeldman (that’s me) on web typography, web standards, and more. Part one of a two-part interview. Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum…
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HTML5 Redefines Footer
In response to the Super Friends’ request, the HTML5 working groups have redefined footer. This is a wonderful usability improvement to the spec.
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HTML5 For Smarties
The HTML5 specification runs on for over 900 pages, and much of what it covers, while vital to browser makers, is meaningless to people who create websites. If thousands of irrelevant details in the HTML5…
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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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Web fonts and standards
Will middlemen help or hurt the adoption of web font licensing standards and cross-browser support?
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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 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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Web standards secret sauce
Firefox and Opera are great browsers that have greatly advanced the cause of web standards, but because they are choices in a space where most people don’t make choices, their power to convert is necessarily…
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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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XHTML DOA WTF
1999: XHTML is the language of the web’s future. 2009: Not so much.
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The new old minimalists
Is minimalism in web design back, or did it just never go away?