Web typog ra phy has in the past two years seen a resur gence in inter est and many would agree only rightly so, with most of the con tent on the web still tex tual. However the range of tech ni cal options avail able for set ting type on the web is quite broad—not to men tion the range of styl is tic choices available—and often con fus ing. This ses sion aims to demys tify the cur rent tech niques avail able to set type on the web by com paring and con trast ing the var i ous options at hand while offer ing a set of good defaults and safe advice for not only mak ing it acces si ble but also plea sur able to read.
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Simon Pascal Klein — Setting standards-friendly web type
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Designing with Web Standards, A Q&A Session with Jeffrey Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte
In this Q&A session Jeffrey Zeldman and Ethan Marcotte provide a brief overview of their new book Designing with Web Standards, Third Edition and then move on to answer participant questions about standards-based web design.
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The Pipeline 1: Jeffrey Zeldman
Dan Benjamin interviews Jeffrey Zeldman, designer, founder of ALA. They discuss the evolution of the internet, the web, web standards, Happy Cog, A List Apart, An Event Apart, and something new: A Book Apart.
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SitePoint Podcast #44: HTML5 is a (Beautiful) Mess
Episode 44 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week, Kevin Yank (@sentience) is joined by Opera Software’s Bruce Lawson (@brucel), SitePoint author Ian Lloyd (@lloydi), and Kyle Weems (@cssquirrel), creator of the CSSquirrel web comic, to discuss the latest uproar from within the W3C HTML5 Working Group. Is progress towards the HTML5 standard at risk of derailing, or is this just par for the course in the wild, wild world of standards development?
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/01/15/podcast-44-html5-is-a-beautiful-mess/
