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Putting Web Accessibility First

Published: June 6, 2017

Quite frankly, my feeling is that the primary reason why the web is not accessible or not wholly accessible to […]

Tools

A Moment In Time with Editors

Published: June 5, 2017

Let’s go back to 1996, in Boston, at the annual Macworld Expo. Not a great year for Apple mind you. […]

Breakthroughs

RSS: A Well Formed Log Entry

Published: May 15, 2017

How would you structure a feed for syndicating blog content? Remember, it would need to be standard enough for a computer […]

Breakthroughs

The Beginning of Black Girls Code

Published: May 8, 2017

My dream of starting BlackGirlsCode… was born out of this frustration that “blacks in tech” are often the unmitigated invisible […]

Standards

Tables for Layout? Absurd.

Published: May 1, 2017

Web designers that cut their teeth in the late 90’s and early 2000’s probably remember table-based layouts. This was a […]

The Network

Before There Were Smartphones, There Was I-Mode

Published: April 25, 2017

In January of 1999, members of DoCoMo held a press conference in Tokyo, attended by only a handful of people. At […]

The Network

What the Web Could Have Been

Published: April 18, 2017

Before the web, Gopher offered a way to connect to the Internet and share documents. And if things had gone a little differently, it might even be what we use to surf information today.

Standards

A Tale of Two Standards

Published: April 17, 2017

It was 2004, and Ian Hickson had just got out of a W3C workshop organized by Adobe. The topic was how […]

Standards

The Rise of CSS

Published: April 10, 2017

The web’s history is filled to the brim with stops and starts and wrong turns. It is a technology that […]

Publishing

Purple, Obama, and Single Serving Websites

Published: March 27, 2017

Over the years, the web has assumed a few forms. That of a technological catalyst, a representation of the the […]

Breakthroughs

How We Searched Before Search

Published: March 20, 2017

Believe it or not, there was a time before search engines. Discovery on the web was far more difficult. It was easy to get lost. That is, until a few different people created a map.

Design

Why Batman Forever is so Important for the Web

Published: March 13, 2017

You may have heard the name Jeffrey Zeldman before. He’s often referred to as the godfather of the web, and […]

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