It was just a couple of months ago that I was naively lobbying my friends to join Facebook. I envisioned creating a place where I could find out what everyone — especially people who were more acquaintances than friends — was doing, without the burden of keeping in contact with them individually. Joe was going […]
I came across The End of Web Frameworks in my dzone RSS feed this morning, and it echoes a thought that runs through my brain as I get more and more comfortable with jQuery: who needs the server when you’ve got Javascript? Wouldn’t it be great if the server just handed out data, and the […]
I remember when I first tried to understand how to produce designs for the web — coming from the paper-based world, it was hard for me to accept everything that was suddenly out of my control. When I first tried to grasp CSS with the help of now-defunct Adobe GoLive, I bailed pretty quickly. Table-based […]
A List Apart had a great article recently on using ‘em’ for CSS font-size declarations, which served as great back-up for some conversations I’d been having among coworkers. (It turns out that people who didn’t have a former life in print don’t necessarily understand what an em is: a self-referential unit of font size measurement, […]
Since 1999, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — a standards body that tells the world how the web should work — has urged web sites to use semantic markup for content and cascading stylesheets (CSS) for layout, and to abandon code that combines information and presentation in non-semantic HTML table-based layouts. Semantic markup …
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