Jens Meiert – BlogJens Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and describing what makes the perfect website since 1999.My Year in Cities,2008- December 31, 2008 As per Anne I couldnt resist.http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081231/year-in-cities-2008/ SocialResponsibility- December 24, 2008 Politically, there are several things which displease yet anger me, including critical trends like the desire to sacrifice civil rights to buy imaginary safety, the general phenomenon to make populist, opportunistic, but totally shortsighted, no, stupid decisions, or implicit, obvious incompetencehttp://meiert.com/en/blog/20081224/social-responsibility/ HTML vs. XHTML: Why HTMLWins- December 19, 2008 Document types are cool, and there are plenty of them. There are plenty yet countless discussions about the right document type, too. Alas, these discussions often deal with irrelevant details or miss the point entirely. The only decisive factor seems to be performancehttp://meiert.com/en/blog/20081219/html-vs-xhtml/ 5 Tips To Deal with Right-to-LeftProjects- December 11, 2008 Know what goes into your markup and what goes into your style sheets. Its actually quite simple: When available, you should always use dedicated bidi markup to describe your content. CSS may not be available, and its spec actually suggests that conforming user agents may ignorehttp://meiert.com/en/blog/20081211/5-rtl-tips/ Re: The IE 6Equation- December 9, 2008 Great: 24 ways is active again. Not so great: Their new site design. No, thats nothing to talk about right now, not after I already offered Drew to explain my concerns after he asked me to; I rather refer to lack of some details to help making informed decisionshttp://meiert.com/en/blog/20081209/re-the-ie-6-equation/ The Greatest Secret in WebDesign- December 1, 2008 Alright I cheated, this isnt really a secret for professionals. Or an open secret. Or whatever. Its that web design is a process. Good web design is an ongoing endeavour; and thus, excellent web design an expensive undertakinghttp://meiert.com/en/blog/20081201/the-greatest-secret-in-web-design/ |