Right. In part one we discussed the showcases themselves, and in part two we had a go at the trolls. Most of the feedback seemed positive, and most of you agreed. Excellent.
So, in part one the showcase sites got a taste of their own medicine, and I don’t think I upset too many people. Think of our industry like the music industry - you create music, therefore you open yourself to criticism. Bands slag off other bands, critics slag off albums, bands get upset, but bands get stronger as a result (or maybe die a painful death). The web is no different, and to avoid complacency we need constructive criticism.
CSS gallery sites. They seem to stimulate both inspiration and distress in equal amounts. As a reviewer for one of the better showcase sites, I get to see a lot of the madness first-hand. Thus, the time has come to delve into this dark and dirty world of opposing emotions, and do my bit to calm everyone down a bit.
I don’t know. You toil away in rainy England eating fish and chips, drinking warm beer, singing “Knees up Mother Brown!” to anyone who’ll listen, waiting for a web standards and accessibility event to happen, and then sixty come along at once. The next events worth your attention have to be the latest Carson Workshops in that London.
Is there a better fun application for Macs than this? I just had to share my joy for this. Go forth and download the technical demo (requires Tiger, and iTunes of course).
That’s right. A full re-design will happen later this year. I grew tired of looking at the old design, even though I loved it. Thus, I have stripped things down to the bare essentials for now in preparation.
Here’s a no-brainer for getting a bit more out of overflows. I love overflow: auto trickery (whereby specifying the height of a div and applying overflow: auto creates a mock iframe without all the accessibility headaches of the latter), but it always bugged me that whatever is being scrolled inside the div gets cut off crudely at the div’s base.
No jokes this time. The Simplified Standards logo comp is finally over. I’ve waded through the 200 or so comments from the previous logo posts, totted up results based on favourites, second favourites and cries of “please, no!”, and can finally announce the winner, four runners-up, and give credits for the other 59 entries.
OK, you decide. Yes, the badger was a dirty joke. Democracy was requested, so democracy you get. Here are all 64 logos for the Simplified Standards website. Remember, the watchwords are simplicity, standards and bloody good design.
The winner is yet to be decided. Yes, this was a joke. Sorry, readers. I’ll announce the real winner in the next two days.
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