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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
