Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 101
May 19, 2010
And now, Google
The long-planned inevitable has now been announced. With open-source-licensed web fonts, web font hosting, and add-a-line-to-your-header ease of configuration, Google has joined Typekit, Font Squirrel, Ascender, Font Bureau and others in forever changing the meaning of the phrase, "typography on the web."
The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open...
May 18, 2010
Episode 3 forever
The Big Web Show Episode 3, featuring the delightful Melissa Pierce on using the internet to reinvent yourself, is now available for your viewing and listening pleasure.
May 17, 2010
Web Design and Fitness
Three times a week I work out hard with a trainer at a gym. It's like sex. I don't mean it feels good. On the contrary, it hurts. And I don't mean there's cuddling after. What makes my hard workouts like sex is that they're followed by a spacey bliss in which there is no atom of desire. When I'm lying on that post-workout stretching table, gazing vaguely at the ceiling, Christina Hendricks could sashay by wearing a G-string made of thousand dollar bills and carrying a plate...
Squat Thrusts
Three times a week I work out hard with a trainer at a gym. It's like sex. I don't mean it feels good. On the contrary, it hurts. And I don't mean there's cuddling after. What makes my hard workouts like sex is that they're followed by a spacey bliss in which there is no atom of desire. When I'm lying on that post-workout stretching table, gazing vaguely at the ceiling, Christina Hendricks could sashay by wearing a G-string made of thousand dollar bills and carrying a plate...
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 ...
