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Link Relations in HTML5

Mark Pilgrim has turned the WHAT Working Group's blog into a tool of genuine outreach and tremendously helpful (even entertaining) information. His "Road to HTML5″ column "explain[s:] … new elements, attributes, and other features in the upcoming HTML 5 specification" with frank clarity and developer-focused practicality.

The April 17th installment all about link relations. And while that may sound confusing, boring, or pedantic, it is actually clear, fascinating, and quite...

Verdana Pro (and Con)

Although Matthew Carter is overseeing the project and David Berlow of The Font Bureau is leading development, I'm feeling twitchy about Verdana Pro, a new print family from an old screen face.

Start there: Verdana was born of the screen. In particular, as all reading this know, it was born of the needs of the crude, non-anti-aliased, 72/96 ppi desktop screen of the mid-1990s. At Microsoft's behest, Matthew Carter created the original cross-platform Verdana with its generous...

Mr on the Microphone

Mister on the Microphone on Flickr. AKA prepping for The Big Web Show, coming very, very soon.

Sleep never sleeps

Dreamed my parents were getting divorced. I'd be asking my momma why, and she would turn into my wife.

The conscious mind deals with what is in front of you, the unconscious processes what has yet to be behind you.

Web charts with HTML5 + Flash

ZingChart hopes to end the war between HTML5 and Flash in web-based charting:

Today we launched the first charting library that renders charts and graphs in both HTML5 and Flash. Rather than join the Flash vs. debate, we built a version that renders charts in both frameworks. With the recent launch of the iPad, we hope ZingChart Flash + HTML5 helps the growing data visualization community focus on building great visualizations rather than worrying about compatibility.

For...

The Big Web Show is coming!

Calling all ears! Calling all eyes! The Big Web Show is coming! The Big Web Show is coming!

Hosted by Dan Benjamin (creator of The Pipeline) and yours truly and produced by 5by5 Studios, The Big Web Show will be a lively panel discussion on all things web.

It will feature the kinds of topics we discuss here and at A List Apart: topics like the future of publishing and the future of advertising. Art direction online. Content strategy. Content curation. (By the way, whatever...

Design Lessons from iPad

It's only Wednesday but we already have our link of the week. Although they call it merely a "quick write-up" (and it is a fast read), iA's mini-compendium of design insights before and after the appearance of the iPad at their office should be required reading for all web, app, and/or interaction designers.

In the equivalent of a breathlessly quick seminar presentation, iA discusses typographic resolution and feel; the effect of the device's brilliant contrast on readability; ...

Designing for iPad

It's only Wednesday but we already have our link of the week. Although they call it merely a "quick write-up" (and it is a fast read), iA's mini-compendium of design insights before and after the appearance of the iPad at their office should be required reading for all web, app, and/or interaction designers.

In the equivalent of a breathlessly quick seminar presentation, iA discusses typographic resolution and feel; the effect of the device's brilliant contrast on readability; ...

Layer Tennis Around the World

Around the world in ten layers with Coudal Partners: Ten designers in ten cities, fifteen minutes at a time. A single Photoshop file will circumnavigate the globe starting in Portland and ending in Tokyo with yours truly, Jeffrey Zeldman, providing the layer-by-layer commentary. Don't miss this one, live Friday, starting at 2pm Chicago time.

Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis presented by Adobe Creative Suite.

Clark on Apple's weak type

Apple has a typography desk. It is not exactly crowded with developers vying for every square centimetre, but it really exists. Have you ever heard of it? …

Then compare Microsoft, which has two divisions focussed on type and reading (Typography and Advanced Reading Technologies). Esteemed colleagues Simon Daniels and Kevin Larson are but two of many people with a high profile in the type business who work for Microsoft (in those departments respectively). MS Typo itself does...