Archive for category: Web standards

Travis J. Nichols’ ‘ugly stick’    (2010.07.15)

Travis J. Nichols will never figure this out, but “E-books” are perfectly capable of “formatting” poetry, not that E-books have “formatting”

Thu, Mar 25 on Church St, hell froze over    (2010.03.28)

Xtra finally experiences a hot-beef-injection-like influx of italics

Confidential to Merlin Mann    (2010.03.26)

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‘Web Standards for E-Books’    (2010.03.09)

My new article on the use of ePub (hence XHTML) in electronic books is now out at A List Apart

Bet against HTML and you lose    (2010.01.29)

Bet against HTML for online distribution and you’ve backed the wrong horse

The Michael Surtees Coding Horror Marathon continues    (2010.01.19)

Another ill-coded Web site from the loveliest Web designer with the worst coding chops, Michael Surtees

Ben Hammersley’s useful precedent    (2010.01.07)

Ben Hammersley and I agree: Marked-up documents are rare to nonexistent in the book and magazine world

Haz knowledge of one, not the other    (2009.11.19)

Michael Surtees and his claimed “knowledge” of “webz and fontz.” (Also! His paranoia.)

Yet another reason your site doesn’t need comments    (2009.11.18)

Because DesignNotes.info has them. (Isn’t the type on your Web page like Trajan’s Column?)