Tag Archives: webDev

Friday Jul 18

Opera Web Standards Curriculum

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Opera recently released a set of succinct educational articles on the foundation of the web, standard technologies and well-written introductions to vital web design topics, aptly titled the Opera Web Standards Curriculum (WSC).
At first I asked myself why something like this was necessary in the year of 2008—don’t students get taught web standards through college […]

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Saturday Apr 26

Are “reset” style sheets bad?

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It slipped by me that just last week—a few days before Canberra’s first BarCamp—Eric Meyer wrote an article responding to Johnathan Snook’s announcement that he doesn’t use reset stylesheets. Following that came Jens Meiert’s arguments that reset style sheets are bad.
I can see where Jens is coming from but don’t see any compelling reasons that would […]

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Tuesday Apr 22

Beautiful Web Typography

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Last Saturday I had the pleasure of presenting my first presentation on typgraphy, at Canberra’s very first BarCamp. The talk was titled “Beautiful Web Typography: 7 tips on de-sucking the web” and is available via:

Slideshare;
Slideshare as a PDF (requires an account);
here as a PDF;
and thanks to Nathanael, as a MP3 audio file.

I think I crammed too much into the […]

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