What Browsers Need to Provide – Alex Russell’s Perspective
Alex Russell (of Dojo fame) has an good post up right now called Browser.Next in which he lists 10 key things browsers need to give us poor developers so we can do our jobs without going insane. Here’s...
View ArticleCrockford on Fixing HTML
Douglas Crockford has a plan for Fixing HTML. I think it makes sense. His proposal is a static document, but comments are collected on his related blog post. In the comments you’ll see a few issues pop...
View ArticleThe 34-Blade Razor from Yahoo!
Congratulations to my friend and colleague Stoyan Stefanov for the publication of Yahoo!’s Latest Performance Breakthroughs after presenting them at the PHP Quebec Conference in Montreal last week. The...
View ArticleHTML Slicers
I’ve heard about various services that charge a flat rate to chop Photoshop (etc) files into clean (X)HTML and CSS, generally for a flat fee and quick turnaround. The topic came up today when a...
View ArticleGotta Agree
Installing software people didn’t request erodes trust. It’s especially repugnant when it hitches a ride with a security or version update. Marshall Kirkpatrick’s right: downloading software has to be...
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Slides: Professional Frontend Engineering
Update: Audio for this presentation is now available (mp3) from the conference’s site. This year, my third presenting at @media in London (2006, 2007), Patrick offered me the morning plenary slot. I...
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Songbird Public Beta (0.7)
Congrats to my buddies (yo Koshi!) over at Songbird for reaching another big milestone: public beta. Songbird is a media player like iTunes. Except that it’s build on top of the awesome Mozilla Firefox...
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Wireframing with Balsamiq Mockups
Thanks to Pras for the pointer to Balsamiq’s Mockups application. I was sketching wireframes quickly within minutes of finding the product. I believe in low-fidelity sketching at the wireframe stage....
View ArticleAccessibility Movers – Henny Swan to Opera from RNIB
I just noticed that Henry Henny “iheni” Swan — Senior Web Accessibility Consultant at Royal National Institute of the Blind for the past six years — is taking a job at Opera Software as a Web...
View ArticleTest Suites for CSS 2.1, ARIA, and HTML5
Just hours ago Microsoft released an amazing new resource that helps the entire frontend engineering industry. Their Windows Internet Explorer Testing Center contains thousands of test cases covering...
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