All entries tagged “webgeekery”

2020

August 11
Flash Is Done and Dusted
August 9
Recommended Web Geek Reading: ABA’s “Practical SVG”

The latest installment in the A Book Apart series if a great way to get up to speed on SVG.
July 20
U.S. Web Design Style Guide by 18F
April 3
Dropbox’s Exodus From (And To) the Cloud

Interesting piece from Wired about Dropbox’s shift away from Amazon’s cloud and onto one of their own devising.

November 13
You Had Me at Version 3.2

CSS maestro Dan Cederholm returns to the A Book Apart series with the release of Sass for Web Designers.
August 16
Third-Party Tracking and the Cookie Clearinghouse
August 7
Chrome’s Lax Password Storage
June 11
Making Inline SVG Play Nice in Legacy IE

Last week I was tearing my hair out trying to track down why the latest version of this site was rendering so badly in legacy versions of Internet Explorer. Here’s what I found.
June 1
Easier Fluid Layouts Using Justified Alignment

A great fluid layout technique that doesn’t require hard-coding horizontal margins.
May 30
State of Transition

Yesterday was my birthday, so I gave myself the gift of a redesign.
May 16
The New Yorker Launches Strongbox
May 14
The End of the Blink Tag
March 14
Go Indy

Video of my talk about digital publishing at the re:build conference in Indianapolis.
February 1
Let Them Eat Main Elements

So it looks like we’ll be getting a main element in HTML5 after all. Good news. But Jeremy Keith poses a question I’ve been wondering about too.

November 30
Stop SOPA From Destroying the Internet

To repurpose a line a U.S. president: I’m not opposed to laws, I’m opposed to dumb laws. And SOPA is a dangerously dumb law.
September 29
Quote of the Day: Mobile-First Edition
August 31
Constricting the Tubes

A handy tool for simulating limited bandwidth.
June 7
Responsive Web Design From A Book Apart

Every so often something rolls around that makes the field feel new, and for me, this is most definitely it.
February 25
A Syntax Riddle Wrapped in a Parsing Enigma

Puzzling out issues with HTML5 and wrapping block-level content.

September 24
Say Hello to Gridulator

Introducing a new tool for calculating layout grids.

May 20
The Long Form
January 8
Adapting Designs as Content Evolves

How your designs scale with use is one of those things you need to diligently revisit and tweak as products mature.

March 26
BusinessLinked

If you’ve been to BusinessWeek.com lately, you may have noticed our article pages sporting some nifty new functionality.

November 20
Tell ’Em, Z

Jeffrey Zeldman stopped by the office to talk web standards with BusinessWeek’s “Innovation of the Week” podcast.
July 11
Elevating “Time Spent” Over Pageviews

Nielsen has announced it will begin focusing on “time spent” instead of pageviews as the key measure of website user engagement.
February 9
The Devil You Must Live With

Dealing with reality of ads.
January 30
The BW Design Update Rolls On

Rolling out the next phase of a redesign.
January 5
Better Than the SQL

If you’ve set up WordPress in a localhost testing environment you may already be familiar with the vagaries of site_url and home.
January 3
Who Moved My Socket?

With the release of OS X 10.4.4, the default socket location for PHP and MySQL has been moved.

September 19
Squashing Borders on Dynamic iframes

Ah, the iframe. So we meet again.
July 18
Killing WebMonkey: A Case for the Commons

On losing a piece of web design history.
June 26
The New Look at BusinessWeek.com

Redesigning BusinessWeek’s website.
May 27
Test Movie and AS2 Garbage Collection Hilarity

Want to scramble the Flash 8 compiler’s brain? (Or more likely your own?)
January 30
Mac IE: The End Has Come

Tomorrow, Internet Explorer for Mac will shuffle off this mortal coil.

November 8
Tab Delimited
August 31
The Hidden Depths

Like lots of Flash folk, I’ve got a real love/hate relationship going with the V2 components.
June 7
Look Ma! I’m on Steve’s Giant Screen!

Holy cow! Steve Jobs featured the BusinessWeek News Widget in his WWDC keynote today.
April 13
The Acid2 Browser Test
April 9
WordPress Permalinks and the OS X Apache Install

If you’ve installed WordPress on an OS X system and can’t figure out why your permalinks won’t function, this may help.
April 5
How to Manhandle a Disk Image

Got an OS X disk image that flat-out refuses to eject? Here’s how to fix it.