That Standards Guy

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Custom Fields for HTML Post Titles | Digging into WordPress
You don’t want to go putting HTML tags directly into post titles. It might show up OK on your own site, but it can be problematic. For example, your titles through RSS will show the tags as next, not render them. I was wishing for a plugin to handle this better, but until then, here is almost-as-simple way to go about it.
10 Small Business Social Media Marketing Tips

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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

How to Understand Your Users with Personas | Carsonified
Personas are a powerful tool for helping you to better understand the needs of your users. In this comic, drawn exclusively for Think Vitamin, you’ll learn more about Personas and how they’ll revolutionize the way you design and build web sites.
Performance Comparison of Major Web Browsers
The latest versions of the five major most web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, Opera 10.0, and Apple Safari 4.0) went head to head under six performance indicators: JavaScript speed, average CPU usage under stress, DOM selection, CSS rendering speed, page load time, and browser cache performance. Each web browser was tested three times under an unprimed cache (except for the browser cache performance), and their average value reported in the results.

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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

@font-face and performance | High Performance Web Sites
An essential read for all early adopters of @font-face.
A Comprehensive Test Strategy for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 | ClearType Press
CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 | Smashing Magazine

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Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

@font-face in Depth
"User Agent Man" provides a detailed look at font embedding including images of how each browser displays them in Windows.

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

SlickPlan -Free Flowcharts
SlickPlan is a web-based sitemap/flowchart generator that allows for the creation of free sitemap and flowchart design.
jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web
jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user-interface components for today's websites. This single JavaScript file weighs only 5.59 Kb

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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs

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Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Introducing Google Chrome Frame | Chromium Blog
Today, we're releasing an early version of Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer. We're building Google Chrome Frame to help web developers deliver faster, richer applications like Google Wave. Recent JavaScript performance improvements and the emergence of HTML5 have enabled web applications to do things that could previously only be done by desktop software. One challenge developers face in using these new technologies is that they are not yet supported by Internet Explorer.

HTML5 and Standards.Next

Karl Dawson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:37:27 +0000

Following on from @media 2009 this year was a free event organised by Bruce Lawson and Henny Swan at the inimitable Bricklayer's Arms just round the corner from Tottenham Court Road. HTML 5 was the topic of this inaugural Standards.Next meeting with an impressive array of speakers and content.

atmedia is dead, long live atmedia

Karl Dawson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:17:43 +0000

Well, what an excellent few days that was in London for, as it turned out, the last @media conference to be run by Vivabit. I only missed out on 2008 so I would like to thank Patrick and team for the vision and hard work put into the conference series to date and wish Patrick well with his new venture. The good people of Web Directions will be taking over the organising for next year and keeping the brand alive I believe.

Brave New World WordPress theme

Karl Dawson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:37:55 +0000

I'm pleased to announce the release of my first WordPress theme today—Brave New World. The theme is free of layout and styling beyond a modified version of Eric Meyer's reset CSS and two baseline typography CSS files to choose from—just like Elliot Jay Stock's Starkers theme this is a base theme free from cruft yet incorporates HTML5, WAI-ARIA landmark roles and hCard and hAtom microformats.

WordPress HTML 5 Theme now live

Karl Dawson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:45:14 +0000

This post signifies the launch of TSG version 4 using WordPress, HTML 5, CSS 2.1 and 3. It is also a milestone in that I no longer support Internet Explorer 6 and its poor implementation of web standards—this is my personal website after all. Depending on your choice of browser your experience may vary also as I used CSS 3 selectors that are not fully supported yet by all the browsers. Flick around between your test suite.

Z-index: sandwich filler

Karl Dawson — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:06:04 +0000

Working with z-index can be a little counter-intuitive at times. With my redesign I wanted to place a "polaroid" style photo of myself behind the "about" section but in front of the main content and header. If I hadn't used such large text and a coloured background perhaps I wouldn't even have noticed what was happening.