Category: State of the Web
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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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Click My Lit Panel
In “New Publishing and Web Content,” a SXSW Interactive Panel, I will lead publisher and entrepreneur Lisa Holton, creative director and designer Mandy Brown, novelist and Harper’s editor (plus big web geek) Paul Ford, and…
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Shorten this
Roll your own mini-URLs.
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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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HTML 5 is a mess. Now what?
Lawson explains just why HTML 5 is a mess. And I ponder what we should do about it. Moving forward, compatibly.
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HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved
An e-mail from Chairman Hickson resolves an ambiguity in the nav element of HTML 5.
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Sour Outlook
Participate in the Outlook’s Broken project. All it takes is a tweet.
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NSFW tag in HTML 5
A “Not Safe for Work” Tag has been proposed for HTML5.
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Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)
Fonts you can legally embed in your website using the CSS standard @font-face method. Why you’d want to. State of the art.
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AEA Seattle after-report
Relive those AEA Seattle memories (or enjoy the show vicariously) via sketches, photos, and Tweets.
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Men like it fast, women like it good
Study: Men prefer fast download speed to easy navigation. Women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility.
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Pardon My History
Behold the splendor of the early web:
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ALA 282: Life After Georgia
Can we finally get real type on the web? Zeldman interviews The Font Bureau’s David Berlow. Plus Stephen P. Anderson shows how the value of beauty in design transcends aesthetic pleasure.
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“Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book
“Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com.