In 2002, I took part in art/design show. My exhibit was to demonstrate the passage of Web designs of some of the more popular Web site designs.
In the exhibit I included the usual big names such as Google and Yahoo! But I also made sure to include Web celebrities such as renaissance man Derek Powazek, the esteemed Jeffrey Zeldman and prolific Lynda Weinman.
So if you ever wondered what Zeldman or Google were putting up on the Web in the last millennium, check Flickr photo set or the slide show.
Releasing CSS: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IE7 covers designing with CSS for Microsoft’s latest and greatest: Internet Explorer 7.
The fine publisher, O’Reilly, wants to distribute a few free copies to those who would post a review on your blog. So, if you would like a free copy and wouldn’t mind writing a Summer book report, comment on this post making sure to include your blog’s Web address.
Many may enter, a few will get ’em. So, post a comment and good luck!
The elevator pitch is the refers the brief moments entrepreneurs have when trying to pitch an idea to a venture capitalist in order to receive funding. The meeting is often visualized as the executive is caught alone for a few moments within an elevator.
I’m working on a new book about Web standards. It got me thinking about the term and how the term seems to be one of phrases that everyone might agree on, but possibly something people define differently from person to person.
I thought it would be interesting to get what web designers and developers view as what web standards are. If the definitions are interesting, I might put them in the book.
So, let me know: what would you define as Web standards if you had a client or executive’s attention in an elevator?
Feel like a rat in a maze? Take a break and play Ratmaze 2, a free, Flash-based game that’s easy to play from my friends at PixelJam Games.
You act like a rat gathering up the free cheeses judiciously placed at the end of so many, many tunnels.
Also, there’s a bit of inner-gameplay as do some simple tasks to spell out the word “ratmaze”. And you do all this while the clock ticks down to zero.
The New Browser War got a little interesting. It’s no longer defined between Firefox or Internet Explorer.
During Steve Jobs’ speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this month, he announced that the new version of Safari, Apple’s Web browser, will run on Microsoft’s Windows opersating system. In fact, public betas are available now.
This reminded me of the time when Microsoft stopped its support of Internet Explorer for Macintosh. At the time, I could understand Microsoft’s pull out.
Microsoft spent a lot of time and money in making a totally different, better browser from Internet Explorer for Windows for their competition. If a Windows user ever sat down and surfed with mac IE, I’m sure they wondered why Win IE wasn’t as slick and possibly think about buying a Macintosh. (Perhaps.)
Now Apple has decided to take its browser to Microsoft’s turf. In the time it took Microsoft to go from Internet Explorer 6 to 7, Apple is pushing their browsr onto another platform. However, I’m not completely sold on the idea for the long-term.
While having Safari on a PC is a great idea as a low-cost way to lower the barrier to getting people to switch from PCs to Macintosh, I’m not too sure about it’s long time presence. Nonethless, I welcome the competition for my desktop and my clients’.
Having a PC version of Safari around should make convincing clients to stick to Web standards easier.