“I hold that simplicity is the most important attribute of design,” I say. To which Tufte would reply, “No, you don’t.”
I didn’t know it was possible to build such nice closed-source programs.
Firefox 3.0’s new default Mac theme showed up today in the current trunk nightly (Minefield). The theme is very similar to Safari’s.
Nice review of the various typographic tact found at Jon Tangerine’s Pith & pulp http://jontangerine.com/
Interesting look at evolution of UI and the semi-recent trend of adopting the web’s content oriented interface. Definitely overlaps with the fundamentals of “admin debris” and related ideas.
JavaScript based source highlighter with support for many languages in separate modules. Similar to the JavaScript Prettifier in that <pre><code> blocks are automatically detected and highlighted without an explicit language class.
Not sure how I missed linking to this. Pretty much mirrors my feelings on PHP to a T, except more thought out.
Spot on.
“If you can’t control the text width the next best thing you can do to compensate for an overly wide text measure is to increase the leading.” — I never considered that but it makes sense.
Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie show off some of Prince’s more advanced CSS and HTML features, including styling page size, generating headers/footers, advanced use of the CSS content attribute, page numbering, cross-references, and table of contents.
“There comes a time in every old browser’s life to pack up shop and, well, fuck off. This time has come and gone for IE6 …” Also: “42% of global users are still browsing the web with IE6.”
“… anybody who’s ever built out a relatively complex design using ems will agree that at some point they wondered if the benefit was really worth the effort.”
Makes sense to me.
“I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only rarely did I venture into userland programming, but when I had occation to do so, I invariably found that people programmed like it was still 1975.”
This trumps Leopard for most important Mac development this year as far as I'm concerned. Words cannot explain the hatred I've developed for booting up multiple Parallels VMs to get at IE.
Gets my vote in Best Bug Reporting Screen.
Color theory for computer interface designers.
“Let me repeat this because it’s very important: contrast is the basic building block of UI design.”
“… CSS 3 is a joke. A sad, sick joke being perpetrated by people who clearly don’t build actual web apps…”
“But when I say HTML mail still sucks, I don’t mean it sucks because support for design in e-mail today is like support for standards in web browsers in 1998. I mean it sucks because nobody needs it. It impedes rather than aids communication.”
Absolutely beautiful font … and free.
Yes! I've been doing this for a few months now with the corp. assets and I won’t go back. You can really see the text snap into a vertical rhythm when you hit it.
Another interesting take on multi-select lists that uses checkboxes with labels and colors.
I'm real close to hating multi-select list boxes right now. Using an overflowed UL of checkboxes has some interesting pros (and cons).
This is the “home page” of a professor who teaches web design at St. Cloud State University. Don’t go there.
Very nice list of CSS techniques.
Handsome Flash based color mixing tool and color theme sharing site.
A perfect article.
I'm sure I don’t know.
Big list of resources on CSS based forms.
This site is really starting to come along now. The latest addition on how to manage vertical spacing in intervals is something I've been wondering about for a while now.
Animated GIFs designed to indicate your site is doing something…
I run into these problems on a daily basis…
this site rocks
This is probably the nicest color picker for choosing compliments off of a base color.
A bunch of nice little bullet images. I can never find them when I need them…
Decent javascript reference. I really like the format but the cards are images so you can’t use your browser’s find to locate stuff…
Big list of sites that provide CC licensed CSS layouts and tools for generating layouts.
Information on setting up emacs for (X)HTML web development including nxml-mode, rng-validate-mode, etc.
Information on quirks vs. strict mode for HTML/CSS rendering: how to trigger, what DOCTYPEs do what, etc.
Is it just me or are color pickers the only apps that are innovating on the web? You can never have too many of these.
Styled for landscape printing…
Some information on using proper q and blockquote elements in HTML and then styling them with CSS to fix all the browser brokeness.
hardcore!
Punctuation substitution!
Another great all-html color-picking app.
red/green/yellow for specific css attribute support in major browsers.