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Adobe Makes a Statement About Staying in the HTML Game

With all the negative talk between Adobe and Apple and all the doom-saying about the death of Flash, Adobe made some bold statements at Google I/O regarding their future in the web business and their commitment to HTML5 with the … Continue reading

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If you’re a web developer, I can just about guarantee that you use Firefox to do your business, am I right? But I’ll also guarantee that you’ve started getting sick of it too, right? It has gotten soooooooo sssllloooowwwww lately… … Continue reading

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Want to get away?  The most remote places on Earth… I’ve said it before, and I’ll surely say again about Paul Irish: you are a mad man!  He and Divya Manian have created another HTML5/CSS5 “readiness” site, but this time … Continue reading

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Not sure that I’ve ever encountered an Inspection in Firebug that I felt wasn’t accurate, but Brothercake has an Inspector that he claims is better. Okay. Debugging and Closures and Modules, oh my! I love to trip across something that … Continue reading

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Designers: Contrast is king!  Okay, maybe that sounds a little overzealous, but read the article, and check-out some of the tools they link to.  Really good stuff!  Beyond the obvious (colors should contrast enough to make things pop, but not … Continue reading

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So, I think everyone wants to use <video>, right?  But there are obvious challenges (like some browsers don’t support it, no browsers support all of the control features, and developers cannot reliably affect the appearance of the the player and … Continue reading

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Use stored underground wind to replace coal?  Or attach a kite to boat for electricity? The idea that designers should know how to code is a hot topic lately.  The next time you have a few hours to read a … Continue reading

HTML5 Brings Back Some Old Friends: b and i tags

Though never truly deprecated, the <b> and <i> tags have been given a rather bad name.  With XHTML and rise of semantic HTML / standards, many felt as if they were deprecated, replacing them with <strong> and <em> as fast … Continue reading

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I recently tripped across the Firefox Tips & Tricks page.  There probably isn’t a lot here that most developers don’t already know, but being someone that is always on the look-out for new keyboard shortcuts, I found these, a couple … Continue reading

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Our man Jeremy Keith and his Mad Lib-style registration page for Huffduffer got some nice kudos from Luke W.  In fact, Luke liked the Mad Lib approach so much, he convinced a client to try some A/B Testing on their … Continue reading