Everything I’ve Written

I love to write and have contributed to a shelf’s-worth of books. I’ve also written dozens of articles and helped shape dozens more when I was the technical editor for A List Apart.

Books

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  Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement (2nd Edition)

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  Smashing Book 4: New Perspectives on Web Design

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  Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement

Ocasionally, industry colleagues have invited me to contribute a chapter (or three) to their books as well.

• Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks

  by Luke Wroblewski

• Accelerated DOM Scripting: with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries

  by Jonathan Snook with Aaron Gustafson, Stuart Langridge, Dan Webb

• AdvancED DOM Scripting: Dynamic Web Design Techniques

  by Jeffrey Sambells with Aaron Gustafson

• Web Design in a Nutshell

  by Jennifer Robbins

I’ve also had the great honor of being asked to write to forewords to several essential web design books.

• Going Offline

  by Jeremy Keith

• Responsive Typography: Using Type Well on the Web

  by Jason Pamental

• A Web For Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences

  by Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery

• Implementing Responsive Design

  by Tim Kadlec

Articles

• Conversational Semantics

  A List Apart, August 2018

• The Illusion of Control in Web Design

  A List Apart, April 2018

• Native And PWA: Choices, Not Challengers!

  Smashing Magazine, February 2018

• Welcoming Progressive Web Apps to Microsoft Edge and Windows 10

  Microsoft Edge Developer Blog, February 2018

• The Story of CSS Grid, from Its Creators

  A List Apart, October 2017

• Yes, That Web Project Should Be a PWA

  A List Apart, August 2017

• What interests you?

  Human in the Machine, April 2017

• When Your Code Has To Work: Complying With Legal Mandates

  Smashing Magazine, March 2017

• Experimenting With speechSynthesis

  Smashing Magazine, February 2017

• Building in 10k: Compilation, Optimization, and Compression

  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog, September 2016

• Building in 10k: Svelte JavaScript Enhancements

  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog, September 2016

• Building in 10k: CSS Structure and Sandboxing

  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog, September 2016

• Building in 10k: Designing for Optimization and Performance

  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog, September 2016

• Building in 10k: Markup for Accessibility, Clarity, and Affordance

  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog, September 2016

• Building in 10k: Content and Strategy

  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog, August 2016

• A Funny Thing Happened To Me On The Way To 2016…

  An Event Apart, June 2016

• Developing Dependency Awareness

  Smashing Magazine, May 2016

• Interaction is an Enhancement

  A List Apart, December 2015

• Establishing Web Standards

  Net Magazine, August 2015

• Bringing Sanity and Order to Device Testing

  SitePoint, June 2015

• 15 Years of Dao

  A List Apart, April 2015

• Create Simple, Accessible Forms

  Net Magazine, March 2015

• Reflecting on the Revamped Sherpa

  Web Standards Sherpa, October 2014

• Q&A: Cross-Browser Audio and Video

  Web Standards Sherpa, July 2013

• Q&A: Apple Products and Mobile Assumptions

  Web Standards Sherpa, January 2013

• Q&A: Finding a Web Designer

  Web Standards Sherpa, November 2012

• Q&A: Nested divs

  Web Standards Sherpa, October 2012

• Master Mobile Navigation

  Net Magazine, September 2012

• Build a Smart Mobile Navigation Without Hacks

  Net Magazine, June 2012

• Cleaner Living Through Content Management

  Web Standards Sherpa, September 2011

• Progressive Enhancement Demystified

  Net Magazine, June 2011

• Getting up to Speed with Lighthouses

  Web Standards Sherpa, June 2011

• Now You See Me

  A List Apart, June 2011

• A Legendary Misunderstanding

  Web Standards Sherpa, March 2011

• Improving the Tweet Box

  Web Standards Sherpa, March 2011

• Stop Forking with CSS3

  A List Apart, June 2010

• Adaptive Layouts with Media Queries

  Net Magazine, April 2010

• Getting up to Speed with Lighthouses

  Web Standards Sherpa, June 2011

• Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript

  A List Apart, November 2008

• Progressive Enhancement with CSS

  A List Apart, October 2008

• Understanding Progressive Enhancement

  A List Apart, October 2008

• Keeping the Hot Side Hot and the Cold Side Cold

  Scroll Magazine, September 2008

• Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8

  A List Apart, January 2008

• Ruining the User Experience

  A List Apart, March 2007

• Push my button

  Digital Web Magazine, September 2006

• Getting Started with Ajax

  A List Apart, March 2006

• Jeremy Keith Interview

  Digital Web Magazine, October 2005

• Improving Link Display for Print

  A List Apart, September 2005

• More Usability Frosting for Your Accessibility Cake

  Digital Web Magazine, April 2005

• Let Them Eat Cake

  A List Apart, April 2004

Additional Work

Over the years, I’ve tech edited and contributed in various other ways to Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith, Designing Web Navigation by James Kalbach, Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman, DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith, Learning Web Design by Jennifer Robbins, ppk on JavaScript by Peter-Paul Koch, Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us by Andrew Dupont, Pragmatic Guide to JavaScript by Christophe Porteneuve, and Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke and Molly Holzschlag.