Do take the time to explore the latest issue of Digital Web: simplicity. My “twin brother” has contributed a precious tutorial on site planning.
At ALA this week, a piece on Microsoft’s Smart Tags. A rather long read, but complete and interesting.
Category: Social Media and the Web
Social media, blogging, tweeting, facebooking, web design, and all the stuff that isn’t here yet. Subcategories highlight some areas of particular expertise.
Site [en]
The notify list page has been updated, and the list itself has been moved to yahoogroups.
More and more pages are going table-less each day. In the archive, the coding and writing sections, you’ll find pages with and without tables. The india and about sections are completely table-less – but that wasn’t very long to do (and while I’m at it, I’m making sure the pages are up-to-date, which explains my sluggish progress in the rip-out).
Tableless! [en]
This page has no tables : )
Love The W3C [en]
The article “How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love the W3C” by Erika Meyer prompts me to go for a little trip down A List Apart memory lane, to point you to some of the first articles I read there.
Here is a little gem extracted from the ALA Back Issues:
Dr. Strangeglobe: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The W3C.
For those interested in my personal history, it was through one of Erika Meyer‘s sites (Mombomb) that I discovered Jeffrey Zeldman. In Defense of Web Diaries is the first ALA article I ever read (followed closely by The Day the Browser Died).
Editors and Standards [en]
I know the article has been out for a while, but it’s worth reading through: To Hell With Bad Editors.
A well-felt article on the damage done to the web by (particularly) WYSIWYG editors. Read it even if you use a WYSIWYG editor and you’re convinced you’re doing the right thing.
Oh, and if you are so inclined, CodeBitch has written a few lines about the aptitude of human beings to learn HTML. Yes, I have what you need: HTML Express tutorial.
Happy coding!
Re-coding [en]
I’m making progress. My brain is almost totally fried. But surprisingly, I still have a little bit of hair left in. Enjoy the story!
CSS [en]
Feel free to watch me sink as I try to float.
IE4.5 Mac [en]
Are lots of you out there still using IE4.5 Mac? Ouch!
Site Going Tableless [en]
I just thought I’d let you know that I’m gleefully ripping out the tables from my layout. You’re not going to see anything yet, because I have the wisdom to do it in a secret testing area.
If you think you might be of any help, you’re most welcome. I’m somewhat stuck in a few browser discrepancy issues.
Chat and Standards [en]
Do you ever get caught up on heated discussions in chatrooms? It happens to me all the time – well, when I do chat. I don’t chat half as much as I used to.
I usually feel strongly for what I believe in, and I have the (annoying) habit of trying to dissect my opponent’s arguments into little bits and pieces, turn them around and counter-check them until I reach the lowest common premisse from which I can rebuild my point of view, dragging my discussion partner with me through each step until we finally agree. So I guess I’m a real pain in the neck to argue with ; )…
Well, yesterday I had a fiery discussion about web standards in one of my favourite chatrooms. The person I was talking with saw web standards not as a common base on which greater freedom, creativity, accessibility, and efficiency can be achieved, but as a quasi-totalitarian attempt to dumb down the web to a set of arbitrary regulations.
It was very frustrating. I don’t know if he didn’t understand me, if I didn’t understand him, if my fierceness in discussion put him off, or if I simply didn’t have the right arguments, but we ended up in a dead end.
I have a strong belief that even if it is not possible for everybody to agree on everything, two people with different opinions should be able to come to a point where the discussion allows them to understand why and how the other thinks like s/he does. And it usually comes down to diverging premisses – or “hypotheses” on the world, if you prefer.
After all this, if you understand French and would like to see how irritating I can be, view the log …awaiting comments!