August 2010
27 posts
3 tags
The Problem with Facebook's "Places" →
They [Facebook] are slowly destroying independent web applications with boring versions that immediately win due to Facebook’s population (which at this point is the 3rd largest country on earth). There’s no demand for excellence. Just make sure the feature list keeps growing.
“I think it is far too easy to look at the addition of features to anything -...”
– Minimal Mac | The forgotten cost of features
A long description on why I don’t like longdesc
The longdesc attribute in HTML is history. Finally.
I had my gripe over the last few years with that attribute and I think it’s good that it’s gone. I dislike everything about it: Content gets hidden away, at a different URL. That’s unintuitive.
And it even get’s worse: People don’t know how to use it properly – neither website authors, nor disabled people, nor browser vendors.
So it seems it...
“Elements in a design should be aligned to something: other elements, a grid, a...”
– via Your Design Is Wrong (And Here’s Why) by @flyosity
There are so many wrong aligned websites out there, adhere to a grid, put that extra effort in. If you don’t you’re just a handyman.
“Have you ever gone clothes shopping for a person that you haven’t met or...”
– The Undesign at @drawar via @malarkey
No to Text Resize Widgets by @WebAxe →
Browser support text-resizing natively, so why bother?
Progressive Enhancement is dead
It means developing websites for the lowest common denominator and then adding bells and whistles. This often means designing for IE7 (or IE6 in the worst case). That is neither efficient nor what anyone who likes modern web design likes. Design for the best browser available, use the latest and greatest techniques and degrade gracefully from there on. Don’t be shy and add JavaScript workarounds...
“Why Drupal?” at SonSpring by @nathansmith →
Lately I’ve been asked in several different ways what essentially boils down to one question: “Why Drupal?” The subtext of the question is: “Why not some other system such as [insert your favorite CMS here]?” Allow me to explain…
@PPK on HTML5 as a marketing Term:
There are several points that merit our attention:
It’s already too late. “HTML5” has taken on meaning as a marketing term and is being used as such — not least by the browser vendors. Any opposition is pointless.
Bruce’s argument would carry more force if the HTML5 spec hadn’t habitually blurred the line by inserting behaviour into what’s supposed to be a...
Warner Brothers Brings Back Looney Tunes →
3D but looks good
“Dream big, implement small.”
– twitter.com/simplebits (via simplebits, sammlerlinge)
