Jens Meiert

On Solutions

Solutions require problems. If you don’t have a problem, you don’t need a solution. This is exactly why you should, whenever someone proposes a solution—which includes design and technical changes—ask what problem that solution solves …

¶ July 7, 2010, filed under Web Development.

CSS Validation and Vendor Extensions: Throw Warnings, Not Errors

If you understand valid code as a quality baseline, you will validate your code. If you validate style sheets, you will have come across errors like “Property ‘-moz-border-radius doesn’t exist’” …

¶ June 26, 2010, filed under Web Development.

Real Web Developers Don’t Need Debugging Tools

Bottom line: try to limit your use of web dev debugging tools—like Firebug or Chrome’s Developer Tools—in order to grow your skills. In theory, debugging tools make the developer life easier …

¶ May 14, 2010, filed under Web Development.

Celebrating CSS Naked Day 2010

April 9 is CSS Naked Day. This year too. Mr. Diaz didn’t seem to announce it this time though.

¶ April 9, 2010, filed under Web Development.

px Is Dead, Long Live px

It’s over. There is no ban on px anymore. The only reason why we as web developers had to adjust coding practices were user agents that failed to meet user agent accessibility guidelines …

¶ February 23, 2010, filed under Web Development, Accessibility.

How to Become a Solid Web Developer, the Short Version

Every once in a while people ping me on how to master web development and design. Given that there’s still so much I have to learn this makes me blush. Chronically short on time I typically reply …

¶ February 12, 2010, filed under Web Development, Design.

WDR #4: Having Conversations in HTTP

The Web Dev Report, issue #4.

¶ January 12, 2010, filed under Web Development.

HTML/CSS Frameworks: Useful, Universal, Usable, Unobtrusive

A high quality HTML/CSS framework needs to have four attributes: useful, universal, usable, and unobtrusive. The four U’s.

¶ November 18, 2009, filed under Web Development, Usability.

The 3 Basic Rules for Writing HTML

The fundamentals every web developer should know: Respecting syntax and semantics, avoiding presentational and behavioral markup, and leaving out everything that is not absolutely necessary.

¶ October 27, 2009, filed under Web Development.

HTML, CSS, and Web Development Practices: Past, Present, and Future

Articles with a title consisting of more than 15,000 characters don’t need an introduction.

¶ October 15, 2009, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, User Experience.