A List Apartby Peter-Paul Koch · 3 Comments
Fronteers, the Dutch front-end association, is announcing their plans to become a member of the W3C, and to appoint Rachel Andrew as their representative. As a member, Fronteers will be entitled to four representatives, whom they intend to compensate for their time. Their mission is not without its challenges, however. Learn how you can help keep independent web developers’ voices from slipping through the gutters.
participants Jen Simmons, Roger Black, Jeffrey Zeldman
Can typography encourage long-form reading—not just scanning? What are the most exciting areas of cutting-edge experimentation in typographic technology and digital layout, and what new skills will we need to design tomorrow’s web content? Three experts—Mozilla’s Jen Simmons, publication design legend Roger Black, and ALA’s Jeffrey Zeldman—discuss typography and layout on today’s web: where we are now, and where we’re going.
In this excerpt from Image Performance, Mat Marquis chronicles the pros and cons of `img` and why we needed something better.
When we put the UX at the expense of the developer experience, it’s the user who pays the price.
Stop designing for the happy path! Steven Garrity shows how to create more robust layouts by designing with difficult data.
With voice interfaces becoming the norm, semantic markup is more important than ever. Learn how HTML tags can have a huge impact.
Code suffers without clarity. Brandon Gregory illuminates some principles for organizing object-oriented code.
Help keep the web open and free! Contribute to open source projects.
In this excerpt from Flexible Typesetting, Tim Brown articulates the challenges facing the modern web typographer. (That’s you.)
JavaScript has always had some tricky issues with variable scope. ECMAScript 6 gives developers more control over this.
Breaking down the walls between the internet’s many social silos, Webmentions offer a new level of freedom for web interactions.
Your writing’s meaning isn’t only the the words. Foundational patterns of organization can help you convey what you mean to say.
Email sender, subject, preheader—small elements, but they’re the first seen and pack a huge punch. Always handle with care!
Big value user research doesn’t need big pots of resource, just clear process, well-directed focus, and care with data analysis.
