Web Directions - Part 26

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On (digital) gardens and wilderness

• By: John
• October 24, 2008

Nearly 3 years ago, after yet another rip off of our site design (I’ve lost count of the number of times people have ripped our design, a lot of our content (in one case submitting it to a notable publisher, and being only days away from being published as a … Read more »

Web Directions North 09 is launched

• By: John
• October 22, 2008

We’ve just launched the site and registrations for Web Directions North 09 — to be held in Denver Colorado in the first week of February.

We’ve got an amazing lineup of experts, sessions and workshops, — check out all the details at the site.

This year for the … Read more »

Ubiquitous web font embedding just got a step closer

• By: John
• October 19, 2008

[Update 1] A couple of months back, I surveyed the scene regarding a long cherished dream of web designers and developers — font linking and embedding.

[Update 2] Opera 10, and Firefox 3.1 now support linking to TrueType and OpenType (but not EOT) in currently shipping alphas or betas.

A short … Read more »

A glimmer of hope in the current economic climate

• By: John
• October 17, 2008

Unless one lives under a rock, or is hiking in Bhutan, the current chaotic and clearly difficult state of the world economy will have not escaped attention. So, Google’s recently reported 30% year on year increase in revenues is something of a glimmer of positive news at least in … Read more »

Opera: 4.13% of the web is standards compliant

• By: John
• October 17, 2008

Via Ars Technica, news of a survey by Opera Software, long time supporters of Web Directions, makers of fine browsers, and strong advocates for an open, standards based web, that finds, to probably no one’s surprise, that the vast majority of the web is not standards based.

The good … Read more »

Great moments in Hypocrisy (mine)

• By: John
• October 16, 2008

So, some while back I wrote quite scathingly about native iPhone apps. I still stand by what I wrote there — but that hasn’t stopped me downloading some apps, and even paying for a couple.

But one really stands out, and I bought it this morning, sight unseen, less … Read more »

Fauxmunity

• By: John
• October 14, 2008

Those of us who’ve been round online a while will have seen at least one, and probably several occasions where large organisation starts blog/​forum/​online community, then proceeds to try hamfistedly to control the conversation, whether by deleting adverse comments, stacking the community with “sock puppets” (community members who are employees, … Read more »

Cameron Adams “cloud versus bird” remix — now with Dinosaurs

• By: John
• October 14, 2008

As if the man (in blue) doesn’t have enough to do, he’s now remixed Carla Hackett’s wonderful “Cloud v Bird” cartoon featured on the cover of Scroll (and at Web Directions South about eveywhere).

It’s also available at RedBubble should … Read more »

Douglas Crockford interviewed over at SitePoint

• By: John
• October 9, 2008

Kevin Yank over at SitePoint has an in-​​depth interview with Douglas Crockford over at SitePoint. Conducted right after Douglas’s presentation at the conference, Kevin follows up on some of the key points in that presentation.

Happy Birthday A List Apart

• By: John
• October 8, 2008

The (now officially) venerable A List Apart is now 10 years old. For old folks like me it seems like such a short period of time, and yet so long as well.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Zeldman, and all whom over the years have contributed to the success of this … Read more »

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