Comments on comments
Examining the results of the comment experiment.
Examining the results of the comment experiment.
Be careful what you wish for when you’re building social software: not all communities are beneficial.
Comments are enabled… but with a twist.
Balancing my time between activism and just being me makes me a complacent zealot.
Backing up my position on blog comments with some quotes.
Paul Haine got in touch with me and asked:
Following up on the comments controversy.
Liveblogging Jeffrey’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
My website, my words.
Warning: this is going to be meta-writing. I’m going to blog about blogging.
It’s been a busy week for Cascading StyleSheets.
The default behaviour of Internet Explorer’s new version switching is still very, very wrong.
A distributed online conversation.
After I wrote my slightly offensive little rant, I was assailed by niggling twinges of doubt. Could it be, I wondered, that I came across as being… a nit-picker? (gasp!)
It’s good to talk about typography. The last few weeks have been particularly good.
Hell has frozen over …you can now comment on my site. But there’s a catch.
The opposite of design thinking.
Delving into old-fashioned parsing rules.
I find it interesting that a number of bloggers have been echoing exactly the same sentiments I’ve been feeling about a site called Little Green Footballs.
A responsive refresh of adactio.com that takes progressive enhancement to the next level.
Liquid layouts… no, wait, come back!
A presentation at An Event Apart Boston 2018.
The World Wide Web Consortium has come under a lot of fire recently for burying a proposal that would allow its recommendations to be released under a fee-paying licence.
Frameworks have their place… but that place probably isn’t on the Web.
I’ve switch CMSs for this site. It’s still home-rolled.
The death of XHTML has been greatly exaggerated.
Form follows… another form.
Jessica’s site has undergone a transformation.
The hacks we shouldn’t have to do.
Andy Clarke has resurrected the always topical issue of fixed width vs. liquid layouts. This is something that also arose on the Brighton New Media mailing list last week.
Banishing the moaners and whingers with a healthy dose of amazing videos.
Some clarification.
The default behaviour of Internet Explorer’s new version switching is very, very wrong.
Solving that pesky Windows Phone 7 problem.
As one year wanes and another waxes, it’s traditional for newspapers, television programmes and websites to post lists. Usually those lists offer a backwards-over-the-shoulder look at the year gone by as they posit the best movies and music of the l
The Web is about distribution, not centralisation.
Civilised discourse on icons and data formats.
A little while back, Derek Featherstone started a discussion about what he called browser elitism. There were some interesting and very revealing comments.
In which I permit myself a moment to gloat about liquid layouts.
You can now associate Flickr pics with my posts.
The countdown begins. I’ve finished writing my book. It’s being hammered into shape at the print foundries as we speak. It should hit the shelves by the middle of September.
Whilst trawling through my regular RSS feeds last month, I came across this plea from Min Jung Kim:
Wrapping up the London leg of @media.
Do websites need to sound the same in every screen reader?
HTML5 and ARIA: not so different after all.
The principles of free (usually democratic) societies are *inclusive* in nature: different faiths, different lifestyles, different value systems coexisting in relative peace. There is generally a seperation of Church and State, as well as freedom of speec
I’ve been comparing air fares recently in anticipation of a possible trip to Ireland.
Extending the wheel, instead of reinventing it.
Jessica and I went to see Attack of the Clones again today. Here’s my (spoiler-free) review.
The web is not a platform.
Conditional loading is a great technique for responsive designs but we need a better way of communicating between CSS and JavaScript.
I love it when the web works like this.
Calculating vertical rhythm and horizontal alignment.
A presentation at An Event Apart Seattle 2019.
A presentation at An Event Apart Seattle 2019.
As 2005 draws a close, a blogger’s thoughts inevitably turn to analysing, cataloging, listing and rating all the analysis, catalogues, lists and ratings from the preceding twelve months.
Brian Oberkirch is working overtime.
The lows are low, but the highs are high.
“Common” breakpoints are the new fold.
Liveblogging Kristina Halvorson at An Event Apart Boston 2009.
Do you have permission for those third-party scripts?
The results are in. Here’s what you came up with to solve the problem of conditional loading with CSS.
A great line-up.
The Wolf talks about minty APIs.
Yesterday was Bloomsday. I wasn’t in Dublin: I was on stage in Brighton with Salter Cane. Still, I couldn’t let the occasion pass unmarked.
I’ve had my iSight for almost a year now but lately it’s been getting a real workout.
I’m going to be moderating two panel discussions. What should I ask the panelists?
A dConstruct workshop reveals some issues with the HTML5 spec.
Ping! Ping! Ping!
The whirlwind that is South by SouthWest is over.
I just finished coding an e-commerce site with Message. The Rapha website, selling cycling apparel, has launched just in time for the Tour de France.
The limits of Twitter.
Upcoming.org has added some nifty new features.
Dustin Diaz has a lot to answer for.
Borrowing a smart UI feature from Apple.
Waiting for the deletionist axe to fall.
Optimise for ugly bags of mostly water, not your plastic pal that’s fun to be with.
Digital destruction courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.
In which I lose my DMCA virginity.
Clarifying the problem space of responsive web design.
Design iterations over eight years.
Here’s a fairly neutral report on a new worm that’s doing some damage.
I gave my SkillSwap talk on CSS based design last night. I had been preparing for it for a while which is why my journal entries have been somewhat sporadic of late.
Some advice for presenting your content on the printed page.
You can use the hCard microformat in plain English sentences.
Quit yer bitchin’
Paul Graham…. wankah!
Making the case for getting to UX London.
Luke W. puts his research where his enthusiasm is.
I spoke at Reboot. A written version is now online.
Something tiny this way comes.
Who knows where the time element goes?
You can quote me on this markup pattern.
I’m back in Arizona after a pleasantly uneventful Alaska Airlines flight.
Greetings, I write you as a humble spacefaring probe…
An oEmbed nip here, a responsive design tuck there.
This banner ad is shocking for two reasons.
Agreeing and disagreeing with Divya.
My sense of entitlement. Let me show it to you.
I have good cause to celebrate in Las Vegas and Austin.