Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 104
April 24, 2010
A List Apart No. 304
Issue 304 of A List Apart for people who make websites squeezes JavaScript and delves into faceted navigation:
Better JavaScript Minificationby NICHOLAS C. ZAKAS
Like CSS, JavaScript works best when stored in an external file that can be downloaded and cached separately from our site's individual HTML pages. To increase performance, we limit the number of external requests and make our JavaScript as small as possible. The inventor of Extreme JavaScript Compression with YUI...
April 23, 2010
April 22, 2010
Go fly a kite
Oops! I forgot to write a blog post about the new $100 bill when I tweeted about it last night.
It's ugly as hell.
April 21, 2010
Stop chasing followers
The internet is not a numbers game. It's about dialog, persuasion, and influence.
You don't want a million people reading your HTML5 blog. You want members of the HTML5 working groups and key influencers from Google, Apple, and Microsoft reading your HTML5 blog. Likewise, it's better to have twenty meaningful comments than a thousand +1s.
Ditto with Twitter follower counts. What it would gain you to acquire all the followers in the world? Bragging rights? Mysterious leverage...
April 20, 2010
Touch Gesture Reference Guide
The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces including iPhone, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, Android, and more.
The guide contains an overview of the core gestures used for most touch commands. It tells how to use these gestures to support major user actions; provides visual representations of each gesture to use in design documentation and deliverables; and additionally provides an...
April 19, 2010
My glamorous life
My small old shi'zu watches intently as I embed the five pills that keep him alive in little balls of hypoallergenic canned food—a process that takes five minutes and must be repeated three times a day. As I work, I smile down at him and sing, "Daddy's makin' meatballs."
April 18, 2010
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...
April 17, 2010
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.
