Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 62
November 8, 2011
5th annual Blue Beanie Day is November 30, 2011
THE FIFTH ANNUAL International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards will be celebrated Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Here's how to participate:
Take a self-portrait wearing a blue beanie (toque, tuque, cap) and upload it to the Blue Beanie Day 2011 pool on Flickr.
Add a blue beanie to your social network avatar on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Flickr, etc.
Read more about Blue Beanie Day:
FAST COMPANY: Why Is Your Web Designer Wearing a Blue Hat Today? by ALISSA WALKER (2009)
See you on the internets!
Perpetual tip o' the blue beanie to Doug Vos
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October 31, 2011
HTML5 dumps TIME element
"It's with great sadness that I inform you that the HTML5 element has been dropped, and replaced by a more generic – and thus less useful – element. The pubdate attribute has been dropped completely, so there is now no simple way to indicate the publication date of a work."
Much more at Bruce Lawson's personal site. Hat tip: Stuntbox.
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Shutting off Compass Calibration in Location Services can stop iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S on iOS5 from sucking battery life and running hot.
I have an iPhone 4 and fwiw, mine was losing 10% per 2 hours and running warm as soon as I upgraded to iOS 5. In my case the culprit was quite easy to track-down. The new OS Location Services has a new sub menu: System Services. These services by default do not show the familiar arrow icon at the top right of the status bar. However, a new setting allows System Services location usage to be displayed. Just as well as in my case (I hasten to add that your mileage might vary) the culprit was 'Compass Calibration' which was perpetually holding on to Location Services even through restarts. Switching the blighter off cured the problem. What's odd is that I have tentatively switched it back on since and it no longer activates Location Services. Very odd, but there's my tale.
via Troubleshooting a battery-sucking iPhone 4S | Macworld By flyperson 4:48:54 PM PDT Oct 24, 2011
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New MobiUs Browser For iOS Makes Mobile Web Apps Act More Like Native Apps
"Mobile development firm appMobi is launching a new HTML5-powered browser for iOS on Monday which will bring additional capabilities typically found only in native apps to the mobile Web. The MobiUs Web App Browser, as it's being called, works both as a standalone browser alternative or in conjunction with Apple's mobile Safari, similar to the way browser extensions work on the desktop Web.
"…The browser integrates two full sets of APIs from both appMobi and from PhoneGap (1.0) to give the Web apps a native look-and-feel, plus the ability to access all the hardware features of the smartphone."
More: New MobiUs Browser For iOS Makes Mobile Web Apps Act More Like Native Apps | TechCrunch.
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October 28, 2011
That's love.
FOR TWO YEARS, our daughter was bullied in school. The school didn't notice and our daughter didn't complain so we didn't know. Finally a mom saw and told us. After that, things happened quickly. One result is that we changed schools.
During those first two years, our daughter shut down emotionally and psychologically from the moment the bell rang in the morning until school let out at night. Maybe this shutting down was a reaction to the bullying. Maybe there were other causes. What's certain is that she didn't learn. She didn't learn the kindergarten stuff. She didn't learn the first grade stuff.
The old school noticed the learning problems and provided support programs that helped, but did not close the gap. The school warned us our daughter would probably flunk kindergarten, but in the end they passed her along to first grade. The first grade teacher worried, but in the end passed her on to second grade.
Now she is in a school where they pay attention, in second grade, lacking skills her peers learned in kindergarten.
Catching her up takes hours of extra homework a week. It takes patience and cunning as we work to cool a fear and dislike of learning that's been baked into her soul for two years. Some days I want to cry. But for her sake I smile.
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October 26, 2011
On An Event Apart DC 2011
Jeremy Keith – An Event Apart: Design Principles (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski
Andy Budd – An Event Apart: Persuasive Design (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski
Ethan Marcotte – An Event Apart: The Responsive Designer's Workflow (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski
Karen McGrane – An Event Apart: Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Web Content (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski
Notes from An Event Apart, Washington DC (Global Moxie) (globalmoxie.com) – Josh Clark
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October 18, 2011
A Book Apart: Designing for Emotion & Mobile First
WE ARE THRILLED to present the two newest volumes from A Book Apart ("brief books for people who make websites"):
Make your users fall in love with your site or application via the precepts packed into Aarron Walter's new Designing for Emotion. From classic psychology to case studies, highbrow concepts to common sense, DfE demonstrates accessible strategies and memorable methods to help you make a human connection through design.
Learn data-driven techniques that will make you a master of mobile with Mobile First. Former Yahoo! design architect and co-creator of Bagcheck, Luke Wroblewski knows more about mobile experience than the rest of us, and packs all he knows into this entertaining, to-the-point guidebook.
For a limited time, save 15% when you buy both together!
A Book Apart, Designing for Emotion & Mobile First Bundle.
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ALA: Personality in Design
IN AN EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT from his new book, Designing For Emotion, Aarron Walter shows how to turn design interactions into conversations, imbue mechanical "interactions" with human elements, and use design and language techniques to craft a living personality for your website or application.
A List Apart: Articles: Personality in Design.
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A List Apart: Organizing Mobile by Luke Wroblewski
THE ORGANIZATION OF MOBILE web experiences must align with how people use their mobile devices and why; emphasize content over navigation; provide relevant options for exploration and pivoting; maintain clarity and focus; and align with mobile behaviors. In this excerpt from his brand new A Book Apart book, Luke Wroblewski explains how.
A List Apart: Articles: Organizing Mobile.
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