Web Developer

The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a dozen of the most exciting speakers and visionaries in our industry explained why this moment in web design is like [...]

Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web’s governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website’s code against multiple web standards at once.
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When it arrives later this year, Internet Explorer 9 will support most of the latest decorations and behaviors in CSS3. But until then, you’re stuck with the same old workarounds for IE users.
Here’s something that might make your life as a designer a little bit easier: CSS3 Pie is a new library written by Jason [...]

The first printing of Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers has sold out. For a book about web forms, semantics, and the history of markup, it’s done pretty well: The book sold 1,000 copies during the first hour of pre-sales. It sold 5,000 copies during the first 24 hours of pre-sales. The first printing sold [...]

Google’s Chrome browser has a well-established reputation for being not only extremely fast at rendering JavaScript, but also robust in its support of cutting-edge HTML5 technologies.
Both of these capabilities are on display at Chrome Experiments, a site that Google set up to showcase some of the coolest demos on the web for JavaScript apps, [. [...]

The self-proclaimed “minimalist and perfectionist” Sime Ramov has developed his own technique for publishing incredibly stripped-down web pages.
View source on his blog, and you’ll see what we mean.
In Sime’s words:
There should only be one request when you hit any page. So page views equals hits. This is because CSS is inlined, and data URIs are [...]

Learn to love vendor prefixes and create full-screen backgrounds that resize to fit the viewport in Issue No. 309 of A List Apart for people who make websites:
Prefix or Posthack
by ERIC MEYER
Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius [...]

In “CSS is the new Photoshop” (?), Adobe’s John Nack correctly observes, as have many of us, that “Cascading Style Sheets can create a great deal of artwork now, without reliance on bitmap graphics.” Nack quotes Shawn Blanc, one of several concurrent authors of the phrase “CSS is the new Photoshop,” who cites as evidence [...]

Most of us web folk are hybrids of one sort or another, but Todd Dominey was one of the first web designers to combine exceptional graphic design talent with serious mastery of code.
Being so good at both design and development that you could easily earn a fine living doing just one of them is still [...]

A web developer named Alex Giron has created a working model of the solar system using only web standards.
It’s fully animated — though Alex takes advantage of some new CSS 3 features (border-radius, transforms and animations) and utilizes the -webkit prefix, so you’ll need to view it in Safari or Chrome to see the planets [...]