• Posts bookmarked on: Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report

  • 12 July 2009

    • 14:00

      Web standards secret sauce

      When Apple chose Webkit rather than Mozilla Gecko as the basis for its Safari browser, some of us in the web standards community scratched our heads. Sure, Webkit was open-source and standards-compliant. But, at the time, Gecko's standards support was more advanced, and Mozilla (in the form of Firefox, Camino, ...

  • 02 July 2009

    • 21:00

      XHTML WTF

      The web's future isn't what the web's past cracked it up to be. 1999: XML is the light and XHTML is the way. 2009: XHTML is dead—kind of. From the W3C news archive for 2 July 2009: XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources ...

  • 08 June 2009

    • 12:01

      HTML 5 Gallery

      The html5 gallery is a showcase of sites using HTML 5 markup. html5 gallery has two primary aims, the first is to showcase sites that use html5 for markup, so that we can see how people have interpretted the specification and how they’ve implemented it. This leads me on to the ...

  • 01 June 2009

    • 17:01

      SuperDuper! backup for Mac

      Even if your computer craps out, there's no excuse for losing your work. Rated five stars on VersionTracker, SuperDuper! is the dead-simplest and most reliable backup program for Macintosh I know. With a click, it makes a fully bootable backup of your hard drive. If disaster strikes your data, or if ...

  • 29 May 2009

    • 13:01

      All About Floats

      Float is a CSS positioning property. If you are familiar with print design, you can think of it like an image in a layout where the text wraps around it as necessary. So begins  All About Floats, a brief and unassuming tutorial which, with a single web page of text and ...

  • 23 May 2009

    • 14:01

      Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)

      The Web Fonts Wiki has a page listing fonts you can legally embed in your site designs using the CSS standard @font-face method. Just as importantly, the wiki maintains a page showing commercial foundries that allow @font-face embedding. Between these two wiki pages, you may find just the font you ...

  • 22 May 2009

    • 19:00

      Floats, clears, and color flashes

      After viewing this site's redesign in progress, Peter Petrus wrote: [Y]ou’re using footer to clear floats (content + sidebar). This creates a large drawback, because before footer is downloaded and displayed in the browser, parent wrapper lacks any background. It means that we’re staring on black text / orange background combo for ...

  • 08 April 2009

    • 19:02

      What are web standards?

      What are web standards? And why should I care? A fun new clip from the BigThink marathon Zeldman interview. See also this and that. [tags]zeldman, webstandards, bigthink, interview[/tags]

  • 01 April 2009

    • 18:19

      Browser compatibility updates

      DOM whiz and loyal-opposition/web standards advocate Peter-Paul Koch has been working overtime preparing detailed findings on CSS and DOM compatibility in modern browsers, including: CSS in all new browsers W3C CSS Object Model in all new browsers DOM Events in Opera 10a and Chrome 1 DOM CSS module in Opera 10a and Chrome 1 DOM ...
    • 00:00

      ALA No. 270: progressive enhancement 2; work at home

      In Issue No. 270 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Progressive Enhancement with CSS by AARON GUSTAFSON Organize multiple style sheets to simplify the creation of environmentally appropriate visual experiences. Support older browsers while keeping your CSS hack-free. Use generated content to provide visual enhancements, and seize the power of ...
    • 00:00

      Cognition

      Two user experience professionals are contributing their time and talent to Happy Cog. A veteran strategist and instructor, user experience director Kevin Hoffman creates compelling online experiences via patient research and sparkling creative insight. Prior to joining Happy Cog, he spent more than a decade building sites, developing strategies, and leading ...
    • 00:00

      Web Design World

      Tomorrow I board an Amtrak train bound for beautiful Back Bay Boston, where I'll have the honor and pleasure of delivering a keynote address for Web Design World. I have a long-standing fondness for this conference and especially for its content director, Jim Heid. I've learned a great deal over ...
    • 00:00

      ALA No. 277: design, debug, details

      In Issue No. 277 of A LIST APART, for people who make websites: Hallvord R. M. Steen and Chris Mills share the lowdown on Advanced Debugging with JavaScript, and Kevin Potts reveals the secrets of successful designers who keep their eye on The Details That Matter. P.S. You can now ...