Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 102
May 4, 2010
Letter to My Trainer
Dear Hannah:
I am having my second major gout outbreak since I was diagnosed with the disease two years ago.
An angry red ball filled with uric acid has disfigured my right toe, pushing it out of alignment. It hurts to walk. It hurts to lie in bed.
I'm walking like Walter Brennan in To Have And Have Not, only slower.
I'm not sure I'll be able to get my gym shoes on, and I know I won't be able to do exercises that require pushing from the toes or the ball of the foot.
Nevertheless, ...
May 2, 2010
Happy 15th birthday, DragThing
On 1 May 1995, young James Thompson released the first version of DragThing, "the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop." On 1 May 2010, a still young James Thompson celebrated his product's fifteenth birthday the way any good indie software developer would: he released a free update.
It's been over six years since we last charged for an update, and we've released over twenty free updates since then, so this should really be a paid one. But since it's a...
May 1, 2010
April 30, 2010
A Feed Apart preview
Ali Ali describes the design process behind the forthcoming revision to A Feed Apart, the official Twitter aggregator for An Event Apart. Read about it now, experience it very, very soon.
Big Web Show No. 1 up!
For your viewing and listening pleasure, The Big Web Show's Episode 1: Web Fonts is now online.
Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit (and other sites, too numerous to name) about one of your favorite subjects, "real fonts on your website" in this, our inaugural episode.
Enjoy!
April 29, 2010
Steve Jobs and Me on Flash
Assume I retweeted Steve Jobs's thoughts on Flash.
Note Steve's concluding paragraph:
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
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Live Today: Web Fonts Dialog
Live today, Dan Benjamin and I grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit and numerous other good things on the web about one of your favorite subjects, "real fonts on your website."
Be part of this dialog that takes place via streaming video feed with live call-in.
Don't miss the inaugural live broadcast of The Big Web Show today at 1:00 PM Eastern.
(And get the podcast next week by following 5by5 on iTunes.)
April 26, 2010
State of Web Development 2010
The report from Web Directions' second "State of Web Development" survey covers "technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices" employed by today's web professionals. Download the complete (anonymized) set of responses in CSV format, gaze fondly at a PDF infographic overview, or read a detailed analysis online.
The State of Web Development 2010
