Archives for “standards”

On a recent project where I had to support Firefox 3.6, 3.0 and 2.0, I had to find a way to target a specific version ...


Long story short, Google released a plugin for IE 6, 7 and 8 that will run Google Chrome (which uses webkit) inside a frame in ...


Frequently, when I see a webpage with superscript or subscript text, I see associated gaps in the paragraph. This is caused because the default way ...


Key Takeaways from An Event Apart

I've attended An Event Apart four years running now. It is, hands-down, the finest web conference around, and if you work on the web at ...


XHTML 2 is Dead

Wow, I didn't see this coming. Zeldman reports that the W3C is not going to renew the XHTML 2 working group's charter this year. That ...


An Event Apart Seattle 2009

The night before An Event Apart, I was at a party with some college friends. When they found out I was in town for a ...


Who’s Afraid of HTML Email?

Anyone who tells you creating HTML email is easy has either never done it, or is lying. Inexperienced designers tend to think, "Oh, no problem, ...


Pop Art Redesign

The redesign of the Pop Art site is live! I'm really proud of the work I did on this, and I'll write a longer post ...


Detroit Diesel Redesign

About a month ago, we launched the new Detroit Diesel redesign. We were working on this site when I was first hired at Pop Art, ...


I've managed to attend An Event Apart every year so far, and this year was particularly exciting because the nearest location was in San Francisco. ...


Dojo is Coming Together Nicely

I haven't had a chance to have another coding marathon for Dojo yet, but I've been able to spend an hour or so here and ...


I’m Working on Something Special

Most coders and programmers are familiar with the concept of "flow" or "getting in the zone." In a nutshell, it's a mental state you get ...


Third Annual CSS Naked Day

Happy CSS Naked Day! Dustin Diaz started this in 2006 as a way to promote web standards. "In the spirit of promoting Web Standards along with ...


Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in ...


Version Targeting and IE8

Previously on Web Developer Controversies: Aaron Gustafson from the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 will use a META tag to kick the engine ...


The Email Standards Project

In 1998, Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project to fight for better support of web standards from the browser manufacturers and web developers. It ...


Duplicate Work is a Bug

"You’ll sometimes hear people joke that good programmers are 'lazy', and what this means is simply that good programmers tend to see duplicated work as ...


41 Useful CSS Links

I was clearing out my bookmarks recently, and noticed that I had a pretty large collection of web development and CSS-related bookmarks that I never ...


Web Design for Sara Ryan

In January, I got an email from Sara Ryan, asking if I would be interested in designing a website for her: Hi Scott -- I found ...


Selling Web Standards is Hard

I recently had a fascinating conversation with our VP of Client Services. Long story short, I learned that selling web standards is difficult, because many ...


Citations, Emphasis and Italics

Wanna get a headache? Go type "html book titles italic em" into Google and read for about 15 minutes. What you're looking at is an ...


An Event Apart Seattle 2007

Last year, I attended An Event Apart 2006 in Seattle. It was a great event, although I remember it being really rushed, because they seven ...


What started as a simple project with LP to redesign their top-level landing pages quickly grew to encompass their entire site. This brought with it ...


CSS Naked Day ‘07

It's that time of year again when standards-conscious web designers shed their stylesheets and let their sites run around, exposing their raw markup to the ...


Over the weekend, I upgraded the theme for Space Ninja. Firstly, I changed the header and footer color scheme and pattern for the holidays. I ...