Blogs, bulletin boards, community sites—the whole web2.0© rely on the same thing: user input. On the web, user input usually means HTML. Some simple HTML is easy to learn, like bold and italics, but other techniques (like links, lists, and blockquotes) can be a little more daunting. For a site owner, badly written HTML can [...]
Typography on the web resembles print typography only superficially. There are important limitations with units, fonts, styles, and effects. In web design, there are a few common units used for setting the sizes of elements. They are: percentage em em is a multiplier applied to the current font size: 1em is equal to the current [...]
The problems with the new solution are many. The ones that concern me: After just a few versions, the browser will be hopelessly bloated and bogged down trying to maintain several versions with all of their features and bugs The point of the solution is to make browser bugs immortal. But will there be bugs [...]
Everything about this event was awesome. Venue, speakers, subject, attendees, everything. I learned something new from every speaker, and was sometimes surprised by what I learned. Jared Spool talked me off the ledge of examining statistical data from usability studies. Instead, he gave me the advice that I should instead work on introducing our own [...]
For those of us who care about the semantic web, standards, or the W3C, The Web Standards Project needs to be in your feed reader. I’ll admt, it wasn’t in mine; until now that is. The design of the site is awesome, and they eat their own cooking. (Plus, they use WordPress!) They employ css [...]