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- WordPress 2.5 unleashed
WordPress 2.5, designed by Happy Cog and built by Automattic, is now available for your downloading pleasure.
- Podcast news
The first video podcasts from SXSW.
- Version targeting, take two
In Issue No. 253 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Jeremy Keith says version targeting in IE8 is all right but its default is all wrong. I argue that the default seems wrong but is actually right and necessary. Read, discuss, decide.
- Facebook, Twitter, and Bird Flu
If “Our Broken Borders” should someday turn into a ratings loser for CNN’s Lou Dobbs, perhaps he can switch to “The Dwindling Productivity of the American Worker: Is Facebook Sapping Our National Vigor?”
- Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
Four years ago today, Tantek Çelik and Kevin Marks gave a presentation on real-world semantics. Working backwards from HTML extensions like XFN (created by Tantek, Matt Mullenweg, and Eric Meyer), the paper showed how designers and developers could add semantics to today’s web rather than starting from scratch or waiting for a “purer” markup language.
- 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 a more reliable ensurer of forward compatibility. Is version targeting the answer?
- An Event Apart New Orleans
An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, kicks off its 2008 season with An Event Apart New Orleans, a monster, 19-hour, two-day creative session. Join us April 24–25 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside for two intense, 9.5-hour-long days of learning and inspiration, featuring twelve of your favorite web design authors.
- Self-publishing is the new blogging
When you’ve flown this far from Gutenberg, the only place to travel is back.
- Let me hear your standards body talk
Jeremy Keith’s “Year Zero” beautifully explains why the W3C needs our backs, not our bullets.
- Re: CSS Unworking Group
Proposing change when the change makes sense is good. Proposing change because you are disappointed and frustrated isn’t good enough.