Web Standards News
sIFR default CSS hides content from at least one screen reader
8 Feb 2010by Roger Johansson
Just a heads-up to anyone using sIFR to render text: the default CSS that comes with sIFR hides the replaced text from the VoiceOver screen reader. I don’t know if any others are affected – VoiceOver is the only screen reader I have been able to verify this problem in.Read full postPosted in Acc... continues
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Forgotten CSS selectors
4 Feb 2010by Roger Johansson
Anyone who has been using CSS for any length of time has probably been frustrated by the lack of selector support in Internet Explorer 6. There are quite a lot of cases where a CSS 2.1 selector will let you target elements in all other relevant browsers, but where you, if you want it to work in IE 6... continues
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My video setup: Canon HG10 with 35mm adapter
4 Feb 2010
I've had a penchant for filmmaking ever since I was a little kid. I've never had the right equipment, though. I'm trying to finally change that, while still trying to stay within budget. The photo above shows the setup I've been piecing together over the last few weeks. I haven't shot anything w... continuesvia [Authentic Boredom]
SpamEdits
4 Feb 2010via [css-discuss]
EasyAndCleanFloatedColumn
4 Feb 2010via [css-discuss]
HolyGrail
4 Feb 2010via [css-discuss]
WikiBlackList
4 Feb 2010via [css-discuss]
FooterBeneathSidebar
4 Feb 2010Cleaned spam text (wasn't a link)
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ListMenus
4 Feb 2010Cleaned missed spam link
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EarlCooley
4 Feb 2010Cleaned missed spam link
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StyleSwitching
4 Feb 2010Cleaned up missed spam link
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IE7
4 Feb 2010Cleaned out missed spam link
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InternetExplorerWinBugs
4 Feb 2010Cleaned up missed spam link
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A New Direction and a New Project
2 Feb 2010by agustafson
In an effort to increase adoption of web standards, we're going to try something new.
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Beware of “Web Page, complete” when saving HTML pages with your browser
1 Feb 2010by Roger Johansson
Every now and then I need to ask a client or another developer to save a copy of a web page and email it to me. Mostly it is because they are viewing a page that is behind a firewall and I need to see the markup. Something that happens a lot is that they send me HTML that is more or less mangled. T... continues
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Michael Bierut on clients
1 Feb 2010Michael Bierut is such a down-to-earth, practical designer (and speaker) who works hard to do amazing work without the typical stigma associated with graphic designers. This practicality is clearly evident in the video above, a presentation given at CreativeMornings in New York City. And if you have... continues
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Bet against HTML and you lose
29 Jan 2010by joeclark
Bet against HTML for online distribution and you’ve backed the wrong horse
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XHTML Media Types Working Group Note updated
29 Jan 2010by Roger Johansson
The W3C Working Group Note XHTML Media Types - Second Edition contains updated guidelines for the use of different media types with XHTML documents – text/html vs. application/xhtml+xml. The note is about a year old now, so this will be old news to some readers. Better late than never, I suppose. ... continues
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Unobtrusive JavaScript is not necessarily accessible JavaScript
26 Jan 2010by Roger Johansson
Plenty of JavaScript demos and tutorials that you come across on the Web note that they are implemented using unobtrusive JavaScript. While that is great and should always be encouraged, some people seem to believe that unobtrusive JavaScript equals accessible JavaScript. That is not always the case... continues
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Colosseo: Available March 2010
26 Jan 2010Watch the full resolution video on Vimeo. This project began 12 months ago when Suzanne and I purchased tickets to Rome. It's consumed a good portion of my working life since then. This is a sneak preview. Sign up to be notified by email when it's available:
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Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II
26 Jan 2010by contact.us at alistapart.com (Shelley Powers)
In Part II, dig deeper into the technology behind using SVG for your site design. Explore how to incorporate SVG in a cross-browser friendly manner, including using SVGWeb to ensure that the SVG shows in Internet Explorer. And discover the unique characteristic that makes SVG ideal for page back... continues
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Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I
26 Jan 2010by contact.us at alistapart.com (Shelley Powers)
Many of us think of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as an also-ran: fine for charts and tables, but not much else. Yet SVG can actually enhance a site’s overall design, and can be made to work in even the most stubborn browser. In Part I of a two-part series, Shelley Powers covers important basics ... continues
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Embedding video files without JavaScript
25 Jan 2010by Roger Johansson
Nowadays, it is more or less the norm to use JavaScript to insert video content embedded in Flash into web pages. While it does work in the majority of cases, there are a couple of problems: it requires JavaScript and it requires Flash. Some people block JavaScript, some block Flash, some block bot... continues
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A call for consistent display of alt text across browsers
20 Jan 2010by Roger Johansson
A while ago I posted Safari, WebKit and alt text for missing images, in which I note that most WebKit-based browsers do not always display alt text when images are missing. In alt and title content display in popular browsers, Steve Faulkner presents his results from taking a closer look at this in ... continues
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France and Germany call for the end of IE6
20 Jan 2010by agustafson
Google's disclosure of a December cyber attack, originating in China, prompts two major governments to push for the aging browser's demise.
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The Michael Surtees Coding Horror Marathon continues
19 Jan 2010by joeclark
Another ill-coded Web site from the loveliest Web designer with the worst coding chops, Michael Surtees
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Is SVG support coming to Internet Explorer?
18 Jan 2010by Roger Johansson
In a post to the IEBlog, Patrick Dengler, Senior Program Manager of the Internet Explorer Team, announced that Microsoft Joins W3C SVG Working Group. He goes on to say that We’re excited to take part in ensuring future versions of the SVG spec will meet the needs of developers and end users.Read ... continues
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Telling organisations that their websites are inaccessible
13 Jan 2010by Roger Johansson
When you encounter a website that has accessibility problems, it can be a good idea to contact the organisation behind the website to let them know about the problem and encourage them to fix it. To help make this a little easier, the W3C WAI has published a draft document called Contacting Organiza... continues
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W3C HTML Accessibility Task Force
12 Jan 2010by Roger Johansson
As a number of people have stated, there are some accessibility issues in HTML 5. Hopefully the HTML Accessibility Task Force will help straighten those out: The objective of HTML Accessibility Task Force is to help ensure that HTML 5 provides features to enable Web content to be accessible to p... continues
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The Authentic Jobs Twenty Ten promotion
8 Jan 2010
We just kicked off our Twenty Ten promotion over at Authentic Jobs. In short, post a listing and save 20%, and 10% of your purchase will be donated to Charity:Water to help provide clean drinking water around the world. Alternatively, you may donate to our campaign without purchasing a listing. ... continuesvia [Authentic Boredom]
Ben Hammersley’s useful precedent
7 Jan 2010by joeclark
Ben Hammersley and I agree: Marked-up documents are rare to nonexistent in the book and magazine world
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Do what works best for you, not them
6 Jan 2010Of the many things we do well as creative professionals, we often forget to think for ourselves, relying on thought leaders to determine what works for us and what doesn't. Paramount in this failure to think for one's self is the fact that these thought leaders often struggle to encourage others to... continues
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Looking Back at Google in 2009
29 Dec 2009by Douglas Bowman
A fairly thorough retrospective of Google and the huge impact the company had over the past year. Check out the list of releases and new ideas Google pushed in 2009. Impressive and scary at the same time. I wish the little blip about me leaving earlier this year weren’t present, though I’... continues
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Success secrets of graphic designer superstars
29 Dec 2009by Douglas Bowman
Worth skimming through, if even just for the eye candy. But also for each designer’s nuggets of wisdom. link
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Notable recent job listings
23 Dec 2009Consider this the Merry Christmas edition. I've combed through the listings on Authentic Jobs and have hand-selected several listings below. Best wishes if you're looking for work over the holidays or thinking about changing employment. GOOD is such a misnomer for a website with GREAT content and... continues
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The Survey, 2009
15 Dec 2009by contact.us at alistapart.com (ALA Staff)
For the third year in a row, good citizens of the web, we ask that you take a few minutes to tell us about your professional skills, educational background, career prospects, job benefits, and more.
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Join me live on DesignChat tonight
10 Dec 2009
Ryan McGovern, DesignChat founder, and I will be chatting live tonight, December 10, at 7:30pm 8pm CST. You can join us at mashable.com/chat. Follow @designchat and watch a few previous chats on DesignChat's Vimeo channel. Update: Here's the archived video from our chat.via [Authentic Boredom]
Letting Go of John Hancock
8 Dec 2009by contact.us at alistapart.com (Bjørn Enki)
Because clients expect everything to be faster, better, and simpler, web professionals must take an instant, foolproof, paperless, modern approach to how clients approve proposals and sign contracts. Implementing an instantaneous contract agreement helps to get projects off the ground, attract clien... continues
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The Content Strategist as Digital Curator
8 Dec 2009by contact.us at alistapart.com (Erin Scime)
As the digital landscape becomes increasingly complex, and as businesses become ever more comfortable using the web to bring their product and audience closer, the techniques and principles of museum curatorship can inform how we create online experiences—particularly when we approach content.... continues
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Letterpress poster: Limited quantities for the holidays
2 Dec 2009Update: Sold out. Enter your email address below if you'd like to be notified when additional copies are available.
If you're considering ordering one of my letterpress posters as a holiday gift, I recommend doing so soon. I have only about 40 remaining on hand, and I've already shipped a h... continuesvia [Authentic Boredom]
Easy dad project: Football/rugby uprights
25 Nov 2009
I was always throwing stuff together as a kid, like homemade go-karts, bike ramps, forts, and other stuff that substantiated my existence as a boy. Now with boys of my own, it's as if I'm remaking all that stuff again. Except it's even more fun with kids. One of the projects we put together rec... continuesvia [Authentic Boredom]
Be a True Blue Beanie Supporter of Web Standards
24 Nov 2009by goodwitch
Monday, November 30, 2009 is the 3rd annual Blue Beanie Day. Started by Doug Vos, Blue Beanie Day is a way to show support for web standards and accessibility. Excerpt from the 3rd Annual Blue Beanie Day Event Page: It’s easy to show your support for web design done right. Beg, borrow, or buy ... continues
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Taking a stand against American Apparel
23 Nov 2009I've been doing designs for screened t-shirts on and off basically my entire career. Back in the day, Gildan and Hanes Beefy-T were popular choices for doing screened tee runs. The material was generally thick and beefy, and the fit was what you'd expect from a run-of-the-mill tee. About four years... continues
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Haz knowledge of one, not the other
19 Nov 2009by joeclark
Michael Surtees and his claimed “knowledge” of “webz and fontz.” (Also! His paranoia.)
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Yet another reason your site doesn’t need comments
18 Nov 2009by joeclark
Because DesignNotes.info has them. (Isn’t the type on your Web page like Trajan’s Column?)
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On Web Typography
17 Nov 2009by contact.us at alistapart.com (Jason Santa Maria)
Until now, chances are that if we dropped text onto a web page in a system font at a reasonable size, it was legible. But with many typefaces about to be freed for use on websites, choosing the right ones to complement a site's design will be far more challenging. Many faces to which we’ll soon ha... continues
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Real Web Type in Real Web Context
17 Nov 2009by contact.us at alistapart.com (Tim Brown)
Web fonts are here. Now that browsers support real fonts in web pages and we can license complete typefaces for such use, it's time to think pragmatically about how to use real fonts in our web projects. Above all, we need to know how our type renders in screens, in web browsers. To that end, Tim Br... continues
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Another argument against comments
16 Nov 2009by joeclark
Because Joe·My·God has them
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Perfect Pitch
3 Nov 2009by Douglas Bowman
Helping Adactio get that perfect pitch. To nail it, even. You should probably link to his page too, if you’re so inclined to fight DMCA take-downs for the sake of SEO. link
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Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients
3 Nov 2009by contact.us at alistapart.com (David Sherwin)
It's hard for clients to understand the true value of user experience research. As much as you'd like to tell your clients to go read The Elements of User Experience and call you back when they’re done, that won’t cut it in a professional services environment. David Sherwin creates a cheat shee... continues
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Web Standards Links
Updated RSS Feed - Reminder
Just wanted to remind those of you still pointing your feed readers or links to this feed. The new RSS feed for design.Principles can be found here: http://resource.reh3.com/index.php/feed/QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession
rentzsch.tumblr.com: iPhone isn't the new IE6
Video on the Web - Dive Into HTML5
Good overview of video on the web - containers, codecs, etc.Official Google Enterprise Blog: Modern browsers for modern applications
Stndrd_@
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
QuirksBlog: Is the Iphone The New IE6? The iPhone obsession
CSS3 transitions and 2D transforms - Opera Developer Community
QuirksMode - for all your browser quirks
Home | Email Standards Project
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification
Forcing scrollbars (now even better) ° The Hickensian ° Hicksdesign
html { height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px; }swfobject - Project Hosting on Google Code
Checklist para CSS | Blog Web Standards
Documento base para HTML | Blog Web Standards
Checklist para HTML | Blog Web Standards
Citability.org
making government accessible, reliable, and transparent with advanced permalinksWebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
a good fun readWeb Guidelines
Web Guidelines, Identity Standards, Illinois
BBC - Future Media Standards & Guidelines - Accessibility Guidelines v1.6
BBC - Future Media Standards & Guidelines - Download Standards v1.1
econsumer.gov - Your site for cross-border complaints.
Nuanti brings HTML5 and Ogg Theora video to Silverlight
Nuanti's Highgate Media Suite will enable support for standards-based HTML5 video streaming with Theora in browsers that have Silverlight.Tick Talk • A Web Conference About Time • 10th June 2010
Introduction to Web Accessibility
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards."Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending Freedom in the Digital World
Dive Into HTML5
Modernizr
Simon Collison | Colly | The Celebrated Miscellany
Looking Back at Google in 2009
A fairly thorough retrospective of Google and the huge impact the company had over the past year. Check out the list of releases and new ideas Google pushed in 2009. Impressive and scary at the same time. I wish the little blip about me leaving earlier this year weren’t present, though I’... continuesSuccess secrets of graphic designer superstars
Worth skimming through, if even just for the eye candy. But also for each designer’s nuggets of wisdom. linkPerfect Pitch
Helping Adactio get that perfect pitch. To nail it, even. You should probably link to his page too, if you’re so inclined to fight DMCA take-downs for the sake of SEO. linkWhy Bottom Posting Sucks
I agree. Time for the end of bottom-posting arguments. linkA Deep Breath
You’re encouraging the random and random is how you’re going to win. Random is how you’re going to discover a path through a problem that no one else has found and that starts with breathing deeply. Even though the subject matter and approach differs, this pairs nicely with an article on A Lis... continuesIntroducing Typekit
Emphasis is my own… As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is [... continuesUniversal Internet Explorer 6 CSS
Mr. Clarke advocates creating one single universal style sheet to handle all styling in IE6, and to stop worrying about making content in IE6 look anything like the high-end experience. I’m now advocating to my clients (and to you), that where feasible, not to waste hours in time and a client&... continuesWelcome, Wired. We call this land “Internet”
Interesting take on the future of Wired (mag vs. website). Wired is great print, but if the magazine can’t make money and is shuttered, taking the website down with it, I’m going to be livid. Not that making money online is easy—it’s not, especially without sacrificing your ethic... continuesGreat Designs Should Be Experienced and Not Seen
The best design is that which does its job and stays out of the way. Jared Spool on invisible design: While all these things are what the designers at Netflix work hard on every day, they go unmentioned by their customers. It's not because these aspects aren't important. It's because the... continuesChoices
Craig directed me to this piece today after I complimented him on the new version of Twitterrific for the iPhone, stating how much I love seeing different approaches to Twitter client design. I hadn’t seen his post (from December 2008) before today, but it’s a good read that gives insigh... continuesHow Websites Learn | Acts of Volition
-- "A look at how Stuart Brand’s classic work of social and architectural criticism, 'How Buildings Learn', applies to web design and development."Edit-Work.com Web Style Guide
Why should I care if content work? How do I make web content work?Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools
Load and Performance Test Tools, Java Test Tools, Link Checkers, HTML Validators, Free On-the-Web HTML Validators and Link Checkers, PERL and C Programs for Validating and Checking, Web Functional/Regression Test Tools, Web Site Security Test Tools, ExterDeveloping With Web Standards
How and why using web standards will let you build websites in a way that saves time and money for the developer and provides a better experience for the visitor. Also discussed are other methods, guidelines and best practices that will help produce high-Semiotics: A Primer for Designers
Boxes and Arrows: Semiotics is important for designers as it allows us to understand the relationships between signs, what they stand for, and the people who must interpret them, the people we design for.CSS layout generator with parameters
CSS layout, 3 columns with Header and Footer, Ordered columns, Netscape 4 compatibleCSS, Accesibility and Standards Links
CSS resources: links, tutorials, accessibility tools, books.CSS Stuff - XHTML/CSS - 3 column layouts - Netscape 4 compatible
Liquid compatible Web page layout with Web standardsFrames without frames
How to code HTML frames with CSS onlyVia Delicious.
