Category: Web Standards
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Take our survey. Please.
Each year since 2007, we’ve asked you, the members of the web design community, a few dozen questions about your professional life, and compared your answers to those of your colleagues. The data you provide…
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A Feed Apart
Live from San Francisco, it’s An Event Apart, for people who make websites. If you can’t join us here today and tomorrow, enjoy the live feed, designed and coded by Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl.…
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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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Reviewers Needed
Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition needs your help!
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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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House Party
Real fonts on the web: House Industries supports WOFF format.
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Toque o’ the Morning
Download the zipped photoshop file illustrated by Kevin Cornell, and dress your Facebook or Twitter avatar for Blue Beanie Day!
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Am I Blue
The classic Zeldman orange avatar has gone blue to celebrate the release of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.
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Real type, real drag
@font-face and browser performance: the bad news.
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Findmebyip.com tells you your IP details and uses Modernizr to determine your browsers’ support for the latest CSS & HTML5 features.
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Chicago Sells Out
An Event Apart Chicago has sold out.
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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…