“2011” Archive
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.
#8 · adventure
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.
#7 · development
Print Style Sheets and URLs
Print style sheets are awesome. They’re easy to write, too. Site owners and developers who care about print typically know what to do. Alas there’s one thing that’s done rather the wrong than in any right way: printing URLs…
#6 · · development, design
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 absolutely will be.
#5 · development
Exposing Reset Style Sheets
Finally, a Chrome extension to highlight alternative approaches to CSS.
#4 · development
Driving: Tips and Thoughts
It’s time for a heart-warming post about driving.
#3 · misc
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…
#2 · design
HTML, “@width”, and “@height”
As the width and height attributes are to remain part of HTML, limit their use. The reason to avoid @width and @height is that they are presentational and hence constitute potential maintainability issues.
#1 · development