Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 102
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, ...
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...
