Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 101
May 14, 2010
Apple Responds
Via yfrog.com/83n4fp. See also:
TechCrunch: Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight, by MG Siegler, 13 May 2010
Apple.com: Thoughts on Flash, Steve Jobs, April 2010
The Big Web Show Episode 2: HTML5 For Web Designers
HTML5 For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith (A Book Apart, June, 2010)
Zeldman.com: Flash, iPad, and Standards, 1 February 2010
Zeldman.com: Steve Jobs and Me on Flash, 29 April 2010
May 12, 2010
The Big Web Show: Melissa Pierce
Photo: Steve Garfield / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Live tomorrow, Thursday May 13, at 1:00 PM Eastern, my co-host Dan Benjamin and I interview Melissa Pierce, producer of the documentary film, Life In Perpetual Beta in The Big Web Show Episode 3: "Re-invent Yourself."
Melissa Pierce's film asks the question, "is the planned life worth living?" and sketches an answer via interviews with the likes of Baratunde Thuston, Irina Slutsky, and Biz Stone. Watch us turn the tables on the...
May 11, 2010
Life is Beautiful
I haven't slept. For much of last night, my daughter Ava cried out in her sleep with nightmares. Eventually her cries would wake us both. Instead of going back to sleep, Ava would chat with me about her day. I wish I could remember all the amazing things she told me at 2:00 AM.
Around 3:30 or so, we were both asleep when our little dog Emile began barking to be let down from the bed. (He's too small to hop down himself.) I groaned, rose, and set him gently on the floor; off he ...
May 10, 2010
Episode 2: HTML5 For Designers
Now online for your listening and viewing pleasure: in Episode 2 of The Big Web Show, Dan and I chat with Jeremy Keith—designer, developer, content creator, agency co-founder, speaker extraordinaire, and author of HTML5 for Web Designers (A Book Apart, 2010). In this hour-long video podcast, we explore the goals, process, and inspiration behind the book, and discuss what HTML5 means for web creators and consumers—from semantics to strategy, accessibility to implementation.
The...May 6, 2010
Big Web Show Today
Live today at 1:00 PM Eastern, watch Jeremy Keith, author of HTML5 For Web Designers, discuss markup and other matters with Dan Benjamin and me on The Big Web Show. Your live calls are welcome.
The Big Web Show
Episode 1: Web Fonts
HTML5 For Web Designers
Jeremy Keith
AEA Minneapolis
An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites, has posted its Minneapolis 2010 schedule. Join Eric Meyer and me and ten amazing guest speakers on July 26-27, 2010 for two great days of design, code, and content:
Monday, July 269:00am–10:00amPut Your Worst Foot Forward 
Jeffrey Zeldman, author, Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Ed.
Nothing teaches like failure. Web standards godfather and An Event Apart cofounder Jeffrey Zeldman shares some of his biggest...
May 5, 2010
A List Apart No. 305
In Issue No. 305 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Jack Cheng finds creative genius embedded in our everyday tools, habits, and spaces; and Jeremy Keith offers "A Brief History of Markup"—AKA Chapter One of his new A Book Apart Book, HTML5 For Web Designers.
Illustration by Kevin Cornell for A List Apart
Filth & Glory. NYC in the 70s.
Transit Authority K-9 Police use German Shepherds on the subway to deter crime. ~ image copyright © Allan Tannenbaum
The body of Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, is carried from the Chelsea Hotel, 1978. ~ image copyright © Allan Tannenbaum
These and numerous other unforgettable images are available in DIRTY, DANGEROUS & DESTITUTE | NEW YORK IN THE 70s: Photos by Allen Tannenbaum at The Selvedge Yard.
Hat tip: Ara Pehlivanian
Many people still think...
May 4, 2010
HTML5 For Web Designers
When Mandy Brown, Jason Santa Maria and I formed
A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author for the job.
Nothing else, not even "real fonts" or CSS3, has stirred the standards-based design community like the imminent arrival of HTML5. Born out of dissatisfaction with the pacing and politics of the W3C, and conceived for a web of applications (not just documents), this new edition of the web's lingua franca has in equal measure excited, ...
