Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tim Berners-Lee on TED Talks in February 2010. The video is only 5 minutes long. Seems particularly appropriate the day after the article about Twitterscapes.
InterACT with Web Standards: A Holistic Approach to Web Design has reached the stage in the publishing cycle where you can preorder the book.
You can order on Amazon.com or from Amazon.co.uk. At some point in the near future, it will also be available from Peachpit and other booksellers like Barnes and Nobel.
A new site at [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
You can highlight the form field a user is in. It’s a small visual cue as to where the cursor is in the form. Here’s a simple example.
The cursor is in the Name field in the image. The cursor position is highlighted with a dark border to indicate which form field is in focus. This [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
As a comment to em and his buddy strong, Tony Fahnestock sent a tweet mentioning the way the elements <i> and <b> are being treated in the working draft of HTML5 in a section called “text-level semantics.”
Here’s how the <b>, or bold, element is defined there.
The b element represents a span of text [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Two articles on using SVG for backgrounds by Shelley Powers are at A List Apart this week. Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I and Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II. You learn when to use it, where it works, how it works, tools to build it, and [...]
Let’s talk about emphasis and italics and getting bold. There’s an extended family tree of HTML elements that can be used to format text as emphasized, italic or bold at our disposal. These HTML elements are not interchangable and each has a distinct position in the text formatting family.
First there’s <em>. Depending on the browser [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Up Late with CSS3, and Loving It! is an interview by Miraz Jordan with Andy Clarke, John Allsopp and Dan Cederholm. There are many insights in the article, but here’s my fav from John Allsopp.
Jordan: Do you see a broad acceptance of web standards among professionals who create websites, or is it still an uphill [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
In the old days, many of us learned to make web pages by first thinking about the “look” and what images, fonts, color schemes, and graphic design elements we would use to achieve it. We launched Photoshop or Fireworks and played with the look until we knew precisely (down to the pixel) what the page [...]
It’s wise to test your site as you’re building it. Check your pages for accessibility, for validity, for appearance and function as you go along. Don’t wait until you’re finished to think about things like valid code and accessibility.
Even when you do those things as a normal part of your process, you still need to [...]
The WaSP Interact Curriculum group of volunteer workers are working on a book, to be published by New Riders. Among the many folks working on this book are Chris Mills, from Opera, and myself. Chris has put a few chapters up on the publishers FTP site where we all turn in our chapters. I’ve [...]
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