NASA Joins Web Consortium to Help Improve Universal Access - Yahoo! News
Science meets standards: NASA joins the W3C.
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed - WSJ.com
Matt Ridley's new book sounds like a corker.
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Fonts Live
Ascender is selling (and hosting) webfonts now.
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Mozilla hires open-standards guru Celik | The Social - CNET News
Tantek is working with Mozilla now. I expect great things will come of this.
Monday, May 24th, 2010
Rams’ Principles Series: 7 of 10 | Inksie Journal of Design & Culture
Mandy's take on Dieter Rams's design principle that "good design is long-lasting."
Wishlist » User Testing with Silverback
A nice little case study in using Silverback.
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Win A Book Apart – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Use Gowalla? Want a copy of my book? Jeffrey has the details.
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
OpenPlatform Content API Explorer
A handy interface onto The Guardian's new API.
Google Font Directory
Google-hosted free-as-in-beer webfonts.
» UX London report: day 1 Johnny Holland – It's all about interaction » Blog Archive
A comprehensive report of the excellent first day of UX London.
The WebM Project : The WebM Project : Welcome to the WebM Project
Mozilla, Opera and Google are collaborating on an open format for audio and video for the web (a wrapper for Vorbis for audio and VP8 for video).
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping. - Laughing Meme
Kellan outlines the bare minimum you should expect from any service that you are putting data into.
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Pictaculous - A Color Palette Generator (courtesy of MailChimp)
A handy tool for generating colour palettes from images.
Accessible Text CAPTCHAs: 157,500,799 logic questions
An API for Turing test questions.
My Canvas Learning Page
Conway's Game of Life, implemented in canvas.
Monday, May 17th, 2010
These Golden Books Are Not For Children - Humor - Kotaku
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.
Friday, May 14th, 2010
The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything - Dive Into HTML5
A really handy list of really short JavaScript code for HTML5 feature detection.
New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy
Some of the best neologisms in programming, many of them to do with bug-fixing.
Notes on HTML5 Parser History — Anne’s Weblog
Anne explains exactly why the HTML parser defined in HTML5 is A Very Good Thing for everyone.
HTML 5 Asteroids | Doug McInnes
Asteroids in canvas. Works a treat. Now I want Battlezone.
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Long Snake City | booktwo.org
Snakes'n'ladders played on the streets of London. Fun!
Hyperbole and a Half: Things That Can Make You Feel Like an Idiot Almost Instantly
I'm going to have to start ticking things off this list.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
2010 Space Elevator Conference
I would really love to go to this. Our planet needs a space elevator.
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Firefox 4: the HTML5 parser – inline SVG, speed and more ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Henri Sivonen gives the lowdown on the HTML5 parser that will ship with the next version of Firefox. This is a huge development ...and yet users won't even notice it (by design).
Happy Magic Fun Time — HTML5 For Drunks
I wasted my time writing HTML5 For Web Designers when clearly, this is the best tutorial on HTML5 ever.
Mojibakeru kanji-animal transformers ::: Pink Tentacle
Kanji characters that transform into the animal they represent.
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Geology in Art: The Thagomizer
"...after the late Thag Simmons." No, really. It's a proper paleontological term now.
LittleBigPlanet 2
A platform game? A platform for games!
Transcription Services | uiAccess
A list of services you can use to get your podcast transcribed.
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
theoriginofthe<blink>tag (www)
The origins of the blink element are fascinating. To nobody's surprise, alcohol was involved.
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Cthulhu Is Not Cute | HiLobrow
Of plush toys and tentacle porn.
Async | The Brighton JavaScript meetup group
A new geek gathering in Brighton, every second Thursday, all about JavaScript.
Friday, May 7th, 2010
The Big Web Show 2: HTML5 with Jeremy Keith | 5 by 5
I had a lot of fun chatting with Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman about HTML5 for Web Designers. Now you can watch the video or listen to the podcast.
HTML Lint
Finally! A lint tool for HTML (including HTML5) so you can enforce strictness in your writing style.
Fake Science
An excellent education resource.
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
HTML5, ARIA Roles, and Screen Readers in May 2010 — Research — Accessible Culture
Test results for screen readers navigating content that uses new HTML5 elements and ARIA roles.
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
WAI-ARIA Schemata
There is a doctype for HTML4 + ARIA but "This DTD is made available only as a bridging solution for applications requiring DTD validation but not using HTML 5."
IAA SETI Permanent Study Group: Post-Detection Protocols
A nine-point document that constitutes a "Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence."
FontDeck: Exclusive Sneak Peek | Design Shack
Get a glimpse behind Fontdeck's curtain.
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Question Park | Captcha in the Rye
If you do insist on having a captcha, why not make it a bit more interesting? Also: best blog post title ever.
Color Survey Results « xkcd
The wonderfully detailed analysis of a colour questionnaire.
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
MiniApps - HTML5 apps for iPhone, iPad, Android & other mobile platforms
A nice collection of free apps for your mobile device. No app store required, thanks to offline storage.