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If you haven’t already heard of Microformats, they are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Basically, they allow you to use a combination of class names to mark up data in your page along the same lines as existing data formats. So for example, you’d mark up [...]

There’s a right way and a wrong way to go about i18n. Just to be clear, I don’t subscribe to the idea of right vs. wrong unless there’s a good reason for it, otherwise I just chalk it up to preference. Sometimes I consider something as a matter of preference until someone points out a [...]

Imagine you work for a company that has an online product catalog and that your job is to maintain the product images. Now imagine your boss comes to you and says, “here’s a list of a thousand products that need to have ‘40% off’ put on them, and we need it for tomorrow, noon.” So [...]

People have a propensity to see a one-to-one relationship between an element and its look. In other words, they see an element as being styled much like if you were to paint something with a paint brush, a one-off job. At least that’s the way things were circa the early 1990’s with font tags and [...]

One of the pillars of the Web Standards movement–reinforced in Zeldman’s seminal Designing With Web Standards–is the idea that browser detection is a bad thing and should be avoided. As with another idea spawned at around the same time, that “tables are bad”, it isn’t wholely true. There are situations where tables are good and [...]