Archive for category: Web standards

Another argument against comments    (2009.11.16)

Because Joe·My·God has them

Talking with the taxman about thin spaces    (2009.10.24)

Guess what: Firefox nerds can’t figure out why anybody would want to use a thin space

Skills you do not need in order to work for Tumblr    (2009.09.23)

Missing from the list? Web standards

Unfucking your magazine Web site    (2009.09.03)

You aren’t publishing a “magazine Web site.” You are publishing a Web site. (Now updated twice)

Future-proofing Bébout    (2009.08.07)

In which I volunteer to help repair the late Rick Bébout’s site – for posterity

Stupid code pays    (2009.07.28)

Tumblrs have stupid code and attract stupid – and smart – writers. It’s the stupid ones who make off with the loot

Tag soup, now at a discount    (2009.07.24)

Shortcovers will convert your book to ePub. For pennies a byte! Perhaps you get what you paid for

‘Unwebbable’    (2009.07.21)

Today my article, long in gestation, appears at A List Apart: “Unwebbable” examines how not every document can be folded and mutilated into a “Web page.”

Happy anniversary, Design Observer!    (2009.07.20)

It’s Design Observer’s 2,149th day without a print stylesheet!