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Jens Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and describing what makes the perfect website since 1999.
Expertise and the Inverted Parabola
I am not a mathematician, but it looks like gaining and applying experience and expertise manifests itself in an inverted parabola. So knowledge or its use, respectively, apparently faces the situation that beginners don’t know what to do and thus don’t do much …
Thoughts Dump: CSS Selectors
Rapid fire thoughts on CSS selectors: WebKit added support for CSS variables (already cheating as this is not about selectors). What are CSS variables? Something Daniel and Dave specified this year. How does it …
Yes, You Can Use HTML 5
For those who weren’t aware of that so far, you can already use HTML 5: Just use <!DOCTYPE html> as your HTML documents’ document type …
Compared to What?
… is probably one of the most important questions there is. “Compared to what?†is the question that should be answered everytime it is about data, be it presented in graphs, in newspapers, on websites, or when just talked about. Yet it is rarely answered, rarely asked, …
Me on Swiss TV
For those curious about me supporting Germany during the EURO 2008, there is a short interview available that Blick.ch recorded at Seebad Enge during halftime of the finals against Spain (and after Fernando Torres scored the only goal). Even though I cannot point directly to the video …
10 Measures for Continuous Website Maintenance
Website maintenance and quality assurance mean the backbone of high quality offers of information, and they represent the difference between an amateurish or professional approach to web design and development. Consequently, guidelines for quality web design define maintenance …
When Validation Becomes Unimportant
Validation becomes unimportant once you’re ahead of the game, and not a second earlier. Even then, truly mastering HTML and CSS, it will usually be best to stick with valid markup and styling, but fighting latency might then mean a by all means legitimate reason to stretch a little bit …
Thoughts on Email
Email was, is, and will stay the web’s true killer application, but spam, top-posting, incompetent use of newsletters, and the HTML email problem mean serious challenges. I can’t but get rid of …
Web Design: 10 Additional Research Findings You Should Know
Following up on last year’s post on web design research, here’s a new collection of research results, this time featuring further reading as well. It happens that I still watch the work of Association for Computing Machinery, Human Factors International, and the like …
Optional Tags in HTML 4
For convenience and in order to allow for additional bits or bytes being saved in your markup, here’s a list of all optional tags according to the HTML 4.01 Strict DTD. Finally …
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