Posts in category ”Web standards”

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Brave new world of Web3

Brave new world of Web3

Web3 is everywhere these days. So what is it all about? Sixteen years ago I wrote about something called Web 3.0.

A decade of responsive design

A decade of responsive design

Time flies. Apparently even on the web. Ten years have passed since Ethan Marcotte coined the term responsive web design in his now-classic article for A List Apart.

CSS Zen Garden reaches 10

CSS Zen Garden reaches 10

Ten years ago, back when Internet Explorer was still actively trying to ruin everybody’s day, Dave Shea launched CSS Zen Garden. The idea was beautifully simple: take exactly the same HTML and visualize it, again and again, using nothing but CSS.

RIP WaSP

RIP WaSP

When I started this site almost 20 years ago, the web was a very different animal. It was messy, unpredictable and occasionally hostile. Every browser had its own interpretation of reality, and getting a website to behave consistently across them required equal parts skill, patience and ritual sacrifice.

On vendor prefixes

On vendor prefixes

There has been a lot of discussions lately in regard to vendor prefixes. It all began when some non-webkit browser representatives were considering support of the webkit prefix during a CSS Working Group meeting earlier this week.

The adaptation of responsive design

The adaptation of responsive design

Apart from the HTML5 bandwagon, Responsive Design was arguably the most discussed web topic of last year. And like most things that become fashionable in our industry, it went remarkably quickly from interesting new idea to essential ingredient that apparently everyone had been doing all along.

The value of semantics

The value of semantics

Bruce Lawson is one of my favorite technical speakers. Smart, funny, opinionated, and refreshingly unlikely to make you regret entering a conference room. So it was good to catch him at the @media conference in London this summer.

Media queries and JavaScript

Media queries and JavaScript

Mobile development and responsive design are everywhere these days. You can barely attend a web conference without someone mentioning them before the first coffee break.

Musings about Adobe Muse

Musings about Adobe Muse

Do you remember Dreamweaver? Of course you do. Some memories refuse to die quietly.

Embracing HTML5 and CSS3

Embracing HTML5 and CSS3

The web has never been particularly good at sitting still. Technologies arrive with great fanfare, developers swear eternal allegiance to them, and a few years later we quietly remove the stickers from our laptops and pretend the whole thing never happened.

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