2007 August Archive

Håkon Wium Lie has written another call for more attention to be paid to typography on the web. I’m in complete agreement; being limited to only a small handful of ‘safe’ fonts was okay for a while, as it made people think about the best way to present those fonts; it’s fast becoming a limitation, however — when we’re using images and Flash to get around the problem, it’s way past time to address it.

It took me a while to see the benefits of microformats, but now I’m definitely there. In October 2006, the UK WSG meeting was all about microformats, and I decided it was too faddy, too niche for me, and that I wouldn’t bother. I regret that now.
The first thing that changed my mind for me was […]

I’ve done a few small tweaks on the design of my blog; it’s still not the way I had it in my head — my design skills don’t match my ideas, unfortunately — but it’s getting there, at least. I’ve had a first pass at creating a logo and a matching favicon, both of which will be further developed.

Interesting times to be a web developer, as HTML 5 and CSS 3 are both on the (somewhat distant) horizon. I’ve just written about the Advanced Layout module on CSS3.info, IBM developer works have a nice introduction to the new elements of HTML 5, and Wikipedia has a chart of current browser implementation.
In a few(?) […]

A post called Trash All IE Hacks! on the (rather lovely) Web Designer Wall blog has attracted a huge amount of comments recently with its call to stop pandering to those who have the audacity to still be using the previous version of Internet Explorer (approx. 80% of visitors on one site I manage), and […]

Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards serves as an interesting profile of the standardista, as well as being a history of standards and a primer on their importance.