Tag: Standards
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Big, Beautiful Dropcaps with CSS initial-letter
Just beautiful. demosthenes.info/blog/961/Big-Beautiful-DropCaps-with-CSS-initial-letter
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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 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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NSFW tag in HTML 5
A “Not Safe for Work” Tag has been proposed for HTML5.
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“Jeffrey Zeldman on Open Source Design”
I discuss “open source design” in an excerpt from a long interview at Big Think.
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Real type on the web?
A proposal for a fonts working group is under discussion at the W3C.
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A List Apart is changing
A List Apart, for people who make websites, is slowly changing course.
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A bug in Google Chrome
For web standards and web content, we once again live in interesting times. Welcome, Chrome!
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ALA 256: map rolling & data viz
In Issue No. 256 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Wilson Miner shares three techniques for incorporating data visualization into standards-based web navigation patterns, and Paul Smith shows how to replicate Google…
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Not your father’s standards switch
For seven years, the DOCTYPE switch has stood designers and developers in good stead as a toggle between standards mode and quirks mode. But when IE7 “broke the web,” the quest was on to find…