Author archive

Design sites do Web standards II    (2005.11.09)

Do design ‘portals’ still have crappy HTML? (Yes.) And what does this have to do with Armin Vit?

Standards testing and small caps    (2005.11.08)

More bookmarks for standards testing, and a new test page for true CSS small caps

It[’]s Starbucks    (2005.11.07)

I see we’ve found yet another way to write the word it[’]s – with the s in small capitals.

At least it ain’t its’.

Cooper on rye    (2005.11.07)

Neuland means “African-American” according to popular usage. Apparently Cooper Black now means “rye bread.”

I suppose it beats blackletter. Possibly too many connotations there.

Kew Gardens Helvetica Club    (2005.11.07)

Looks like the type on one of those notice boards with the black grooves and the white letters you stick on, doesn’t it?

A file format cannot be ‘accessible’    (2005.11.02)

When will blind people stop misinterpreting accessibility of Microsoft Office as accessibility of everything on their computers? A cautionary tale from Massachusetts and ODF

Stop fighting your distractions    (2005.11.02)

You were a procrastinator today and, when you get around to it, you’ll be a procrastinator tomorrow.

Captioning, fanvids, remixing    (2005.10.31)

Using caption text to find and remix video segments

-iggers    (2005.10.31)

Moving beyond the wigger to chiggers, kiggers, filiggers, italiggers, and, rarest of all, giggers