Standards

Yours truly has an article in issue #233 of A List Apart. Yours truly is freaking the hell out.

27th day of February 2007.
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One has been asked to speak at An Event Apart, Boston. One has not yet stopped doing victory laps around one’s apartment.

15th day of November 2006.
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Reminder: Get NEWD tonight

Come one, come all. Boston-area web geeks, young and old. Or something.

04th day of August 2005.
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Time to get NEWD: August 4th

Pants optional, DOCTYPEs mandatory. (And yes, it’s far too early for me to be funny.)

13th day of July 2005.
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Coming Soon: Bulletproof Web Design

Dan Cederholm wrote a new book. I was the tech editor. That niggling little detail notwithstanding, it remains a very fine book.

28th day of June 2005.
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Performance + validation = hotness

Update: Ethan sees a presentation by Safari’s product manager. Ethan then promptly blogs about something unverified and likely untrue. Ethan would also like to buy the Brooklyn Bridge, if you’re still selling it.

15th day of June 2005.
5 comments.

Tagging out

After much deliberation, I’ve decided to leave the Web Standards Project.

01st day of June 2005.
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Adobe acquires Macromedia, Ethan weeps openly for SVG

Adobe and Macromedia have merged. Welcome to the world of the übercorp! Everything is shiny and doubleplusnew…we simply ask that you leave your open graphics format at the door. Many thanks, citizen.

18th day of April 2005.
24 comments.

Speaking at MIT

Not looking forward to another teary-eyed evening watching Hee-Haw reruns over a package of Ho-Hos? Well, not that it’s an improvement, but I’m speaking at MIT tonight.

06th day of April 2005.
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IE5/Mac mattered

Macintosh IE5 users, it’s time. It’s been fun. Really.

16th day of December 2004.
24 comments.

Web Design World presentation online

I am the emperor of tardy. But hey, it’s finally posted.

10th day of December 2004.
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Go go gadget ethnocentricity

So, I’m curious: do any of the three of you have any practical experience in which separating style from structure paid off in the internationalization arena?

30th day of October 2004.
6 comments.

I heart lightweight markup

Score a rather dubious point for web standards and SEO lovin’.

25th day of October 2004.
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I hate tables

…or perhaps, they hate me. Though at least, I’ve figured my problem out.

27th day of September 2004.
19 comments.

Boston geeks’ get-together, redux

If you’re in Boston this Thursday night at 7PM, meet up with Dan and I at the Cassava Lounge.

31st day of August 2004.
5 comments.

Browse Happy

Because you know you want to.

20th day of August 2004.
19 comments.

Boba in Boston

What follows is deeply rooted in my tradition of posting hours, if not days, after I’d initially intended to do so.

14th day of July 2004.
5 comments.

Reminder: Beantown geek-out

We meet tonight. 7.00PM at Cassava Lounge, 1076 Boylston Street in Boston.

13th day of July 2004.
7 comments.

Beantown geeks

Calling all Boston-area CSS junkies, web designers, and otherwise geek-esque individuals.

01st day of July 2004.
18 comments.

Flying car markup

As a web developer/designer/something, I consider myself a creature of habit first, a creature of requirement second.

10th day of May 2004.
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Blowing off steam

Validate this.

25th day of March 2004.
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Sexily styling horizontal rules

A CSS debug session with Monsieur Orchard. Now with new Gecko bugs!

17th day of March 2004.
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Box model hack, redux?

Is this an acceptable, W3C-friendly alternative to Tantek’s voice-family hack? Or, more likely, am I just a raving loon?

05th day of February 2004.
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Better living through standards

I still rather fancy myself a golden, fiery god. Or not.

19th day of November 2003.
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The W3C steps into the Eolas fray

Tim Berners-Lee just fired off a letter to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, asking its director to invalidate the Eolas patent.

29th day of October 2003.
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All about the BUZZ

I’ve just become one of the newest members of the Web Standards Project. Once I stop hyperventilating, I’ll be ready to get to work.

26th day of October 2003.
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Note to self

Three things every good presentation on web standards should include.

22nd day of October 2003.
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By logical extension

Just how far should we remove presentation from content?

20th day of October 2003.
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The Eolas matter

An open letter to Mike Doyle: bite me. Thank you.

06th day of October 2003.
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Late-night housekeeping

Mozilla’s fixed, my apartment isn’t.

04th day of October 2003.
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Does Mozilla heart CSS?

Is there a standards-based redesign of the Mozilla.org site on the horizon?

02nd day of October 2003.
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Recent Mozilla CSS bug

Recent Mozilla builds are choking on some of the new background-image replacement techniques. If you’re like me and can’t hack Mozilla to save your life, vote for bug #220266.

27th day of September 2003.
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CSS only mostly stupid.

I think I found a workaround for Matt Haughey’s CSS woes. What’s it look like to you?

16th day of September 2003.
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A dialogue list

Honestly, I’ve no idea.

12th day of September 2003.
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Is the Buzz still worth it?

This was a long one, but I had some serious questions I wanted to raise. Hope you can help me out.

04th day of September 2003.
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I want to believe.

I know I’m raising my freak flag even higher here, but I’m excited to be part of the "X-Philes".

24th day of August 2003.
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Cross-browser rich text editor.

Go on, add an image. Saucy, no?

21st day of August 2003.
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The When, Why, and How of CSS hacking.

Why test on the least standards-compliant browser available? The game’s changed, and so have the rules.

20th day of August 2003.
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DMXZone gets its Zen on

A new interview with Dave Shea has been posted at the DMXZone. A worthy read, for one and all.

19th day of August 2003.
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Better background-image replacement.

Filed under the "I Will Steal This Often" category.

05th day of August 2003.
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Mo’ mezzo, less blue.

Mad ups to Dave Shea for going all-CSS, all-structural XHTML over at Mezzoblue.com. Not-so-mad ups to me for saying "mad ups".

04th day of August 2003.
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Harvard.edu, redux.

I’ve published a proof-of-concept version of the Harvard University homepage, using nothing but standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. Mo’ betta, mo’ standards.

29th day of July 2003.
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BuyMusic.com: it’s not about looking ahead.

BuyMusic.com only allows access to one browser, and on one platform: are you up to their standards?

22nd day of July 2003.
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Death of Netscape, continued.

Understandably, there’s been flurry of postings on the web in the past 12 or so hours on the Mozilla Foundation-cum-Netscape dismantling.

16th day of July 2003.
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More browser wars…?

Peter-Paul Koch has written an excellent (albeit lengthy) state of the browser union.

14th day of July 2003.
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Givin’ a talk at Harvard.

On 24 July, I’ll be giving a talk at the monthly ABCD-WWW meeting here at Harvard on standards-based web design. I just got the confirmation, and I’m all sortsa excited.

10th day of July 2003.
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WaSP on Internet Explorer, redux.

The WaSP (finally) publishes its position on the recent Internet Explorer hubbub, and your faithful author achieves some measure of peace on the matter. Plus, he desperately needs coffee…but you already knew that.