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Tweak This! 99designs, the Australian company that has made a fortune soliciting spec work (“crowd sourced graphic design”) from naive designers, and selling $99 logo customizations to small businesses, has just invested $460,000 in a new service:…
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Tantek Çelik on Mozilla & Microformats: Big Web Show TANTEK ÇELIK is my guest on Episode No. 68 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”). Currently web standards lead at Mozilla, Tantek is one of the founders of both the microformats.org open…
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An Event Apart Atlanta 2011 YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and…
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CSS3: Love vendor prefixes, resize full-screen backgrounds Learn to love vendor prefixes and create full-screen backgrounds that resize to fit the viewport in Issue No. 309 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Prefix or Posthack by ERIC MEYER Vendor…
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Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room My friend, the content strategist Kristina Halvorson, likes to call content “the elephant in the room” of web design. She means it’s the huge problem that no one on the web development team or client…
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Fonty font font It’s fonty-fresh!
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Chicago Deep Dish AEA Chicago, wrapped.
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Real type, real drag @font-face and browser performance: the bad news.
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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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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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Web Fonts Now, for real David Berlow of The Font Bureau has proposed a Permissions Table for OpenType that can be implemented immediately to turn raw fonts into web fonts without any wrappers or other nonsense. If adopted, it will…
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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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In defense of web developers XHTML 1.0 is not dead, and people who use it are not fools.