Category: Web Standards
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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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DWWS 3e mini-site updates
The new mini-site for the 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards has been updated, with additional information about the substantially revised web standards guidebook, and with tweaks to the CSS which, one hopes, now…
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What’s new in DWWS 3e
The 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards is coming soon to a bookstore near you. This significant revision to the foundational web standards text is packed with new ideas.
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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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Styles Council
I just spent an intense and magical two days discussing web standards with Nicole Sullivan, Dan Cederholm, Jeremy Keith, Eric Meyer, Wendy Chisholm, Tantek Çelik, and Ethan Marcotte in Happy Cog’s New York studio. (Photos.)
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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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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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Firefox test page
Firefox developers, a test page demonstrating the Firefox bug has been created for your browser fixing pleasure.
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Firefox forces orange background flash
Imposing an ugly flash of orange background on all readers, using any browser, seemed to be the price necessary to work around a content bug in Firefox.
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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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Sour Outlook
Participate in the Outlook’s Broken project. All it takes is a tweet.
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Web standards curriculum
A living, open curriculum to teach students the skills of the web professional.