Posts tagged “web standards” 

I think Responsive Typography is such an invaluable book, I offered to write the Foreword and Jason Pamental (and O’Reilly) have been kind enough to let me reprint it here.

In his astute post “‘Native experience’ vs styling select boxes”, Bruce Lawson correctly identified a common tension in the web world: wanting better native controls vs. wanting to throw away what the browser does. Here are my thoughts.

Lately I’ve been doing a few more podcasts, local events, and interviews. Here’s a round-up of a few that posted in the last week or so.

A few months back, Whitney Quesenbery and Sarah Horton asked if I would be willing to write the Foreword for their amazing new book on accessibility: A Web for Everyone. I’ve reprinted it here with their permission.

I have been thinking quite a bit about viewport-based units and how we can use them to create automated zoom layouts by increasing the font size of the body element.

Progressive enhancement is so ingrained in what we do that it makes it difficult to put hard numbers against the cost of not doing progressive enhancement. Hopefully, these two small case studies help illuminiate things a bit for those who may still be a bit skeptical.

Aaron weighs in on this and other RWD-related questions in .net.

I used my time on stage in Düsseldorf this past May to talk about ways we can and should inject more empathy into our work.

A few smart folks have already put together their thoughts on responsive tables and, while I think the proposed methods are pretty good, I think there might be room for improvement.