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Jens Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and describing what makes the perfect website since 1999.
2008 Retrospective, 2009 Outlook
As usual, a personal recap of last, a prognosis for this year.
My Year in Cities, 2008
As per Anne … I couldn’t resist.
Social Responsibility
Politically, there are several things which displease yet anger me, including critical trends like the desire to sacrifice civil rights to buy imaginary safety, the general phenomenon to make populist, opportunistic, but totally shortsighted, no, stupid decisions, or implicit, obvious incompetence …
HTML vs. XHTML: Why HTML Wins
Document types are cool, and there are plenty of them. There are plenty yet countless discussions about the “right” document type, too. Alas, these discussions often deal with irrelevant details or miss the point entirely. The only decisive factor seems to be performance …
5 Tips To Deal with Right-to-Left Projects
Know what goes into your markup and what goes into your style sheets. It’s actually quite simple: When available, you should always use dedicated bidi markup to describe your content. CSS may not be available, and its spec actually suggests that conforming user agents may ignore …
Re: The IE 6 Equation
Great: 24 ways is active again. Not so great: Their new site design. No, that’s nothing to talk about right now, not after I already offered Drew to explain my concerns after he asked me to; I rather refer to lack of some details to help making informed decisions …
The Greatest Secret in Web Design
Alright I cheated, this isn’t really a secret for professionals. Or an open secret. Or whatever. It’s that web design is a process. Good web design is an ongoing endeavour; and thus, excellent web design an expensive undertaking …
WDR #2: Web Developers Needed for a Website
The Web Dev Report, issue #2, this time featuring a classic situation.
How to Uncover Pseudo-Standardistas
There is a growing and annoying trend that not quite supports healthy attempts for more accessible, faster, more maintainable, and best practice web development: Pseudo-Standardistas. There are several ways to unmask pseudos …
WDR #1: Versioned Style Sheets
Ladies and gents, all I present’s … the Web Dev Report, issue #1.
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