Weekly Link Round-Up #48/49

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• 10.1.2008

Let me first apologize for being a terrible blogger. Two weeks without a word from me. I have been very busy at work, doing a bunch of freelance, and working on the redesign for this site.

I also took a two day trip to New York for work to attend a gala for the National Park Foundation. So basically, this is two weeks worth of links in one blog article.

I’m hoping to launch the redesign before I head to An Event Apart on the 11th. So here it is, some interesting stuff from the past 2 weeks:

• Design By Community

  I agree that design by committee doesn’t work, but Mark discusses design by community, and it looks like it has some promise.

• Hire.

  Airbag created an awesome RFP form to improve the communication at the beginning of projects.

• Anchor Buttons

  Dave Shea plays with the button element. While the buttons look basically the same in all browsers, I know that there are some programmatic issues using the button element. We have also found that some version of Windows Mobile don’t support it.

• A List Apart is changing

  There are only so many ground-breaking CSS tricks that can be come up with. Expanding the topics of A List Apart’s articles to cater to all people who build websites seems like a great move.

• Time to stop showing clients static design visuals

  While I think Andy Clarke has a good idea here, I don’t think it is very realistic. It is just a very risky move to basically create the sliced template before the design has even been signed off on. You would really need to have some trusting clients.

• A List Apart: Issue 268

  So A List Apart starts off with the new direction in fine fashion with Web Standards 2008: Three Circles of Hell and Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement. Molly’s article gives a great insider’s perspective on some of the groups that are working to continue the advancement of web standards.

• Five CSS design browser differences I can live with

  I agree totally with Andy here. I think as long as what you are doing with advanced CSS selectors is not essential to being able to read the content, I say we go for it. There is only one problem: clients. I guess we will just have to work hard trying to educate our clients.

• jQuery finds its way into Microsoft and Nokia stacks

  It’s great to see jQuery getting usage from some big names; it can only do good things for the library.

• When can we stop talking about “supporting” certain browsers?

  I think Jeff makes a great point here: if you know what you are doing with web development, your sites should be “supported” in all browsers.

• The Future Of Web Apps In An Integrated World

  This is an awesome article discussing what our world could be like if our phones could control everything. I want to live in that world.

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