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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.
June 2, 2010
Episode 6: Mobile First
This Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me for the taping of The Big Web Show Episode Six, as we chat with leading interaction designer Luke Wroblewski about designing for the mobile space, and learn why the mobile experience for a web application or site should be designed before the PC version.
Designing for 700 million peopleLuke Wroblewski is an internationally recognized digital product design leader who has designed or contributed to software...
June 1, 2010
Rise Above
M.I.A. Takes to the Streets: a slide show at NYTimes.com.
Photos: Ryan McGinley for The New York Times.
May 28, 2010
Choose Death
When I returned from Boston, my little white dog was much sicker. It's the lungs. There's a constant honking gasp, except when he's sleeping. The doctors said this would happen, they just didn't say when. Despite the constant meds and steady love, there comes a time when the animal can't breathe—and nothing medical can be done, other than the merciful horrible.
So today is the day. I feared it on the afternoon I came home and I knew it for sure last night. Where there is life t...
