Category: Web Standards

  • Big Web Show No. 65 | Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type

    Big Web Show No. 65 | Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type

    IN EPISODE NO. 65 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real…

  • Web type links from an interview with Typekit and Nice Web Type’s Tim Brown

    Web type links from an interview with Typekit and Nice Web Type’s Tim Brown

    MY BIG WEB SHOW INTERVIEW with Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type will be posted tomorrow. Meanwhile, here are some of the links our rapid-fire idea exchanged touched upon: FacitWeb on Typekit: https://typekit.com/fonts/facitweb…

  • Ding dong, SOPA is dead.

    Ding dong, SOPA is dead.

    DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD. For now, at least, the “ill-conceived lobbyist-driven piece of legislation” known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is no more: Misguided efforts to combat online privacy have been…

  • State of the web: of apps, devices, and breakpoints

    State of the web: of apps, devices, and breakpoints

    IN The ‘trouble’ with Android, Stephanie Rieger points out the ludicrous number of Android screen sizes on a typical UK client’s website and comes to this conclusion: If … you have built your mobile site…

  • Fifth International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards – #bbd11

    Fifth International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards – #bbd11

    GET YOUR BEANIE ON! The Fifth International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards takes place around the globe on 30 November 2011. How can you participate? Glad you asked! Details are now available…

  • OFF MY LAWN!

    OFF MY LAWN!

    IT IS NOT “IRONIC” when an article about web standards is published in an online magazine formatted in Flash, or PDF, or some other non-HTML format. It is not “ironic” when an article on responsive…

  • .net Magazine’s Top 25 Web Design Books

    .net Magazine’s Top 25 Web Design Books

    CONGRATULATIONS TO A List Apart technical editors Aaron Gustafson and Ethan Marcotte, whose Adaptive Web Design and Responsive Web Design were ranked #1 and #2 in .net Magazine’s “Top 25 Books for Web Designers and…

  • 5th annual Blue Beanie Day is November 30, 2011

    5th annual Blue Beanie Day is November 30, 2011

    New! Official Blue Beanie Day 2011 page, with banners and instructions.

  • New MobiUs Browser For iOS Makes Mobile Web Apps Act More Like Native Apps

    New MobiUs Browser For iOS Makes Mobile Web Apps Act More Like Native Apps

    “Mobile development firm appMobi is launching a new HTML5-powered browser for iOS on Monday which will bring additional capabilities typically found only in native apps to the mobile Web. The MobiUs Web App Browser, as it’s being…

  • Meet the 10K Apart Winners

    Meet the 10K Apart Winners

    ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS of the second annual 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart. Responsive apps under 10K Last year’s 10K Apart challenged readers to…

  • A Better Franklin

    A Better Franklin

    I’VE TWEAKED the layout here with ITC Franklin Condensed from Webtype. It’s funny. My daughter always asks what’s my favorite color, and I can never answer, ’cause I love them all. With color, it depends…

  • Boston Globe’s Responsive Redesign. Discuss.

    Boston Globe’s Responsive Redesign. Discuss.

    AS EVERY WEB DESIGNER not living under a rock hopefully already knows, The Boston Globe has had a responsive redesign at the hands of some of today’s best designers and developers: The spare Globe website…

  • The Multi-Size Web

    The Multi-Size Web

    HERE IS a fine collection of articles, frameworks, and other tools for a “mobile first” approach to (mainly responsive) web design. Well done, Mr Haidara. The Multi-Size Web: a Computing bag by Eric Haidara at…

  • The Web Comes of Age – DIBI Keynote Address by Jeffrey Zeldman

    The Web Comes of Age – DIBI Keynote Address by Jeffrey Zeldman

    Jeffrey Zeldman – The Medium Comes of Age from Codeworks Ltd on Vimeo.

  • Podcast 95: Who is Jeffrey Zeldman? | Lullabot

    Podcast 95: Who is Jeffrey Zeldman? | Lullabot

    IN THIS ENJOYABLE interview, beautifully conducted by Lullabot’s Jeff and Jared, we discuss the history of web standards; how SEO sells accessibility; the art of collaboration; the three major inflection points of design on the…