Jens Meiert

My Year in Activities, 2011

Or: 43 things that make someone who has no idea about anything he’s doing look like he knows everything, the 2011 edition.

¶ December 31, 2011, filed under Uncategorized.

On Semantics in HTML

As web developers we like to talk about “semantic markup,” a somehow inaccurate short form for “markup that is meaningful and used how it’s supposed to be used.” But where is all that meaning coming from? Let’s take a look.

¶ October 26, 2011, filed under Web Development.

Help Lower the Cost of CSS Validation

Validation is a baseline quality attribute. I have emphasized this in the past and recently shared a bit more about the reasons and how you can use validation on Google’s Webmaster Central blog. There are several things you can validate, way beyond HTML and CSS …

¶ September 22, 2011, filed under Web Development.

CSS: On Risk-Taking, Mirroring, Layouts, Resets, and Hacks

A collection of CSS-related posts I published on Google+. I don’t exactly know how to deal with those yet.

¶ August 24, 2011, filed under Web Development.

Opinions

Everybody is entitled to an opinion but opinions are weak when they are not based on facts or arguments. Debates can only be resolved by presenting sound arguments with supporting evidence …

¶ June 22, 2011, filed under Uncategorized.

Print CSS, Showing URLs, Caution

Print style sheets are awesome and easy to write. Site owners and developers caring about print typically have a feel for what to do. Alas there’s one thing that’s getting done rather the wrong than in any right way …

¶ June 14, 2011, filed under Web Development, Design, User Experience.

Web Development Principles: Develop for What Is, Not What Could Be

For any given project, web developers fare best when focusing on what is, not what could be. To fend off the first misunderstandings, that focus includes what will be …

¶ June 7, 2011, filed under Web Development.

Exposing Reset Style Sheets

A cute Chrome extension to indicate CSS misconceptions.

¶ May 15, 2011, filed under Web Development.

Driving: Tips and Thoughts

It was about time for a heart-warming, loving, helpful post about driving.

¶ May 11, 2011, filed under Uncategorized.

On Correct Punctuation

Let’s speak the unspeakable: correct punctuation, here referring to the use of the correct characters for quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, and ellipses, will forever remain a dream online …

¶ April 7, 2011, filed under Design.