Category: Web Design History
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Memento
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HTML5 vs. HTML
THANKS TO THE WORK of the WHAT WG, the orations of Steve, the acclaim of developers, and a dash of tasteful pamphleteering, the W3C finally has a hit technology on its hands. Indeed, it has…
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2010: The Year in Web Standards
WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile…
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The Big Web Show: Mandy Brown is up. Dana Chisnell is next.
BIG WEB SHOW EPISODE 32 is now online for your listening and viewing pleasure. Mandy Brown (Typekit, A Book Apart) joins Dan Benjamin and me to discuss the value of customer support, the present and…
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Style versus design, revisited
STYLE VERSUS DESIGN READS like it was written this morning. In fact, I wrote the original version in 1999, when I had a monthly web design column going at Adobe.com. In 2005, Adobe asked if…
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A List Apart: Smartphone Browser Landscape
USERS EXPECT WEBSITES to work on their mobile phones. In two to three years, mobile support will become standard for any site. Web developers must add mobile web development to their skill set or risk…
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Top Web Books of 2010
“It’s been a great year for web design books; the best we can remember for a while, in fact!” So begins Goburo’s review of the Top Web Books of 2010. The list is extremely selective,…
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Divitis We Fall
Highlight and Note from Michael Thorne (@mikkelz_za) “Another classic example of divitis kicks in when a designer catches the ‘tables are bad, CSS is good’ virus and righteously replaces 200 tons of table markup with…
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Web type news: iPhone and iPad now support TrueType font embedding. This is huge.
TrueType font embedding has come to iPhone and iPad, Hallelujah, brothers and sisters. That is to say, Mobile Safari now supports CSS embedding of lower-bandwidth, higher-quality, more ubiquitous TrueType fonts. This is huge. Test on…
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Awesome web apps in 10k or less
The 10K Apart Challenge had a simple premise: Could you build a complete web application using less than 10 kilobytes? … A joint effort between An Event Apart and MIX Online, the 10K Apart reaped…
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Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart
ATTENTION, web design geeks, contest fans, standards freaks, HTML5ophiles, CSSistas, grammarians, bookworms, UXers, designers, developers, and budding Haikuists. Can you do this? Do not tell me I Am source of your browser woes. Template validates.…
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Wikipedia sucks on web design.
“WEB DESIGN” NEEDS HELP. Authoritative though it may be on countless other topics, when it comes to web design, Wikipedia sucks. In short, Wikipedia’s entry on “Web Design” needs your help. You know what to…
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Making the web more awesome: Karen McGrane on the big web show this week
Karen McGrane, designer of The New York Times website and managing parter at Bond Art + Science is our guest on Episode #25 of The Big Web Show, taped live before an internet audience at…
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A List Apart 2010 Survey For People Who Make Websites
The data that you provide and we analyze is the only significant information about web design as a profession published anywhere, by anyone. Please take the survey for people who make websites.
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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…