Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 98
June 11, 2010
iMac dies after Safari update
There is a new Safari update. After I installed it, my home iMac cannot reboot.
For about an hour, the iMac was stuck in the grey Apple screen (sometimes with, and sometimes without, a progress bar). The progress bar would "finish," then the Mac would restart back into the grey Apple screen.
I decided to leave the iMac alone while I worked out.
When I returned two hours later, the iMac had progressed from the grey screen to a blue screen. Zapping PRAM and restarting gets me a...
The Great Salami Caper
In the late 1980s, while making efforts to move to New York City, I came up with the winning ad campaign for Hebrew National Kosher Salami. Only I didn't win.
Hebrew National held a contest to see if people outside Madison Avenue could come up with a great ad idea for their 83% fat free salami. The grand prize was $83,000.
Even in New York, $83,000 would have more than covered a moving van, broker's fee, and first and last month's rent.
But creating the winning ad carried a b...
June 10, 2010
Icon: For Love of Barbie
When I was twenty, Barbie was a symbol of oppression with obvious food issues. No way would a future child of mine identify with that.When I was twenty, "princess" was another word for "child of oppressor." Monarchs went with pogroms and capitalists.
If I ever had a daughter, she would be one of the people. Or a leader of the people. Or an anarchist. Or most probably an artist. Art was problematic because it also went...
It's a process
After finishing her late-night snack, she left the empty bowl beside her in the bed "for Emile's spirit to nibble on."
June 9, 2010
Web Standards Italian Style
Sviluppare Siti Con Gli Standard Web: Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition, Italian translation.
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June 8, 2010
Fink on Web Fonts
In Issue 307 of A List Apart for people who make websites:
Web Fonts at the Crossingby Richard Fink
Everything you wanted to know about web fonts but were afraid to ask. Richard Fink summarizes the latest news in web fonts, examining formats, rules, licenses, and tools. He creates a checklist for evaluating font hosting and obfuscation services like Typekit; looks at what's coming down the road (from problems of advanced typography being pursued by the CSS3 Fonts Module group...
June 6, 2010
Web Standards, 1452–2011
And I'm off on a mini road trip to Penn State and its annual web conference, where I'll be honored to deliver the opening keynote on standards-based web design, from 1452 to the present.
The Penn State Web 2010 Conference (@PSUWebConf) takes place Monday and Tuesday, June 7 and 8, 2010 at the Penn Stater Conference Center. Patti Fantaske is chair. The conference is for all who manage, write, edit, design, program, or administer websites or web content at university offices...
Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks
Above, page one of "A Scandal in Bohemia," the first story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as seen in Stanza, a free reader for iPad and iPhone. Stanza has a simple interface for finding, buying (and downloading free) e-books.
Stanza lets you control font size and choose from a number of templates offering a useful variety of foreground and background color and contrast. As the screenshot shows, it also lets you set text ragged right, which is the...
June 4, 2010
June 3, 2010
From Gmail with Love
It shouldn't be this much work, but hats off to Nick Cernis for showing us the trick to enabling multiple "from" addresses under a single Gmail account in Mail on the iPad and iPhone.
