#html (212 links)
- Adactio: Journal—The Rise of HTML5 adactio.com
"We used this as an opportunity to really push what Dan has been calling "progressive enrichment": sprinkling in some modern CSS declarations even if not every browser gets all of them [...] So if you view the UX London site in IE6 it looks fine. Nothing special though. But if you view the site in a browser like Safari, a lot of little details shine through. The design is pretty much a test-case for the box-shadow property using RGBa."
#css #standards #html #html5 #css3 #clearleft #web #design #inspiration#progressiveenrichment #progressiveenhancement - HTML-Ipsum html-ipsum.com
Lipsum snippets for copying, with TextMate bundles.
- Should I use tables for layout? shouldiusetablesforlayout.com
Handy.
- Validator.nu (X)HTML5 Validator html5.validator.nu
"Highly Experimental" as of posting.
Some rough rules of thumb to use when you’re asked to work on HTML email. Rule 1: Run. Immediately. Don’t pack. Don’t think. Just GO!
- Compound Microformats premasagar.com
This demo shows how compound microformats can be used to progressively enhance HTML with semantic meaning.
- From the Top: Defining Content Language thatstandardsguy.co.uk
Probably best to ignore the dir="ltr" for majority of cases.
- HTML Email Guide anandgraves.com
What you need to do to ensure that your emails not only look great in today’s email clients but also actually make it to where they’re going.
- Home | Email Standards Project email-standards.org
Works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
- Email design and spam testing just got easy with Campaign Monitor campaignmonitor.com
Testing your design in all the different email clients out there has got to be the most frustrating and time consuming parts of sending email campaigns. Our design and spam testing tool changes all that.
Some good points, some contentious.
- commadot.com » Blog Archive » The Holy Mail commadot.com
A scalable and strong email template that has really good flexibility
- HTML elements index – Jens Meiert meiert.com
- css-redundancy-checker - Google Code code.google.com
A simple script that, given a CSS stylesheet and either a .txt file listing URLs of HTML files, or a directory of HTML files, will iterate over them all and list the CSS statements in the stylesheet which are never called in the HTML."
- HTML5 differences from HTML4 dev.w3.org
Describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes. This document may not provide accurate information as the HTML5 specification is still in development.
- HTML Entity Character Lookup › Left Logic leftlogic.com
Online and dashboard widget
"This, almost more than any other item in the web author’s toolbox, seems to be misunderstood and overused." Hear, hear!
- posh - Microformats microformats.org
POSH encapsulates the best practices of using semantic HTML to author web pages. Semantic HTML is the subset of HTML 4.01 (or XHTML 1.0) elements and attributes that are semantic rather than presentational.
- Web typography in Rosie Sherry - a blog on software testing rosiesherry.com
Surely if you are part of implementing a website or even maintain your own blog, good practice typography should be a part of it?
- Digital Web Magazine - Markup as a Craft digital-web.com
Nothing new but that's not a criticism; good to have all this in one place!
This article shows some of the new functionality of the proposed form chapter of HTML5: Web Forms 2.
While Ask & Google use the title and meta description directly from Netflix, Yahoo! and MSN are pulling data from the Yahoo! directory and DMOZ (respectively).
- Accessites.org » Dealing with Acronyms & Abbreviations accessites.org
For quite some time the methodologies of how best to deal with acronyms and abbreviations on the web have been discussed by developers the world over. We seek the best practices and hope to serve all of our visitors with something of use.
- Microsoft takes email design back 5 years - Campaign Monitor Blog campaignmonitor.com
Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the crippled Microsoft Word rendering engine.
- How to test HTML emails - Campaign Monitor Blog campaignmonitor.com
...what I look for when I test, how I test for various viewing scenarios, what techniques/utilities I use for debugging and what email clients I use in my suite.
- WYMeditor - standards-compliant XHTML editor - Home wymeditor.org
A web-based WYSIWYM editor.
- Forget WYSIWYG editors - use WYSIWYM instead | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
There is another kind of editor that is better suited than WYSIWYG for content-driven, client-edited sites - the WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor.
- Dump iframes and use object elements instead | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
A very clever way of using an object element to insert an external HTML document into a page. [instead of using iframe]
- HTML emails and Microsoft Live Mail thoughtballoon.co.uk
Dan describes problems with how "Microsofts' new alternative for hotmail, Live Mail" affects HTML emails.
- Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms | mono larsholst.info
Ignoring <abbr> in favor of <acronym> is wrong for two reasons.
This article highlights and answers some of the most frequently asked questions about HTML. HTML is the foundation of the Web, and both developers and designers need to understand it.
Accessible, pretty forms developed by Philip Howard
I’ve rarely seen the TABINDEX attribute applied without it creating more problems than it solves.
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography webtypography.net
A practical guide to web typography
- No more Transitional DOCTYPEs, please | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Unless you have lots of legacy content that contains presentaional markup and cannot easily be converted or cleaned up, go Strict
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
You may not be aware, unless you’ve read the actual DOCTYPE documents themselves (and frankly, who wants to do that?) that the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE tells you to avoid using the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE if you can.