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  • 04 July 2009

    • 06:16

      IE6 falls; XHTML2 cancelled.

      In yet another interesting turn of events, two of the biggest issues when it comes to web design and development make way for the newer, better versions of themselves. Goodbye, IE6! Asa Dotzler of Mozilla reports that IE6 usage has now been overtaken by IE8, based on the browser tracking data from Net Applications. This happened [...]

  • 10 June 2009

    • 20:11

      Two lightweight CSS grid frameworks: the 1KB and the 1-liner

      In the left corner: Tyler Tate’s 1KB CSS Grid, a lean framework sporting 14 classes and the familiar conventions for enforcing a visual grid via CSS. In the right corner: Vladimir Carrer’s 1-line CSS Grid, an experimental framework sporting a single class to cut nested column widths in half. The solution is mindblowingly brilliant, but does [...]

  • 02 May 2009

  • 22 April 2009

    • 12:22

      rel, rev, and HTML5

      Here’s the conclusion that all the web gurus seem to have drawn over the past months: HTML5 is the future, and that future is slowly creeping into our midst. This article by Dave Shea is the latest proof of that. Then there are inspiration galleries and blogs dedicated to the use of HTML5 for marksup, [...]

  • 29 October 2008

    • 14:05

      Really? Everything I Know About CSS Is Wrong?

      All the hoopla over Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!, a book by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank (see also the Digital Web article) is making me feel uneasy. We’re not wrong; the title is wrong I detest the title of the book. No, I don’t think “everything” I know about CSS is wrong. I “know” [...]
    • 14:05

      Really? Everything I Know About CSS Is Wrong?

      All the hoopla over Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!, a book by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank (see also the Digital Web article) is making me feel uneasy. We’re not wrong; the title is wrong I detest the title of the book. No, I don’t think “everything” I know about CSS is wrong. I “know” [...]

  • 07 October 2008

    • 18:05

      Ten years of creating a better web: Google and A List Apart

      Despite the the dot-com bubble bursting at the turn of the new millennium, the Web has become more intelligent, successful, and profitable in the past ten years. We have a ton of people to thank for that, but let’s focus on two groups that are celebrating their 10th anniversaries this 2008. Google Google is one of the [...]