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Some thoughts, observations and notes on web development and interaction design, the stuff on the surface and the underlying technologies from Logical Things founder Art Thompson, Jr.
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Recent Articles
- Vendor Prefixes, WODs and the Uncaring Class
- Remove CSS Comments – Automagically!
- HTML Email Presentation Slides
- 5 Free Web-Based Design and Development Tools I Actually Use
- Gotham-Light Ain’t a Web Font
- More Notes on Coding HTML for Email
- SXSW 2011 Wrap-Up
- HTML Email: Coding Like It’s 1999
- Always Display the Current Year in your © Copyright Notice
- Embedding Video with HTML5 for iOS Compatibility
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Vendor Prefixes, WODs and the Uncaring Class
First, let me state that I semi-agree with the sentiment that “vendor prefixes are hurting the web” though I’ve yet to form a more solid opinion—a situation that’s recently been made worse in the wake of news that Opera will introduce … Continue reading
Posted in Observations
Tagged: CSS, design, iOS, iPad, iPhone, opera, safari, vendor prefixes, webkit, WOD
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Remove CSS Comments – Automagically!
I’ve shared this info via email and Twitter, but have yet to blog about it, so here goes: First, I LOVE using and finding comments in HTML and CSS markup. Since 1993, I’ve learned almost all that I know about … Continue reading
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HTML Email Presentation Slides
Below are my slides from the “HTML Email: Coding Like It’s 1999″ presentation I gave at Refresh Austin in February of 2011: HTML Email: Coding Like It’s 1999 View more presentations from Art Thompson Jr.
5 Free Web-Based Design and Development Tools I Actually Use
We web folks are using web-based design and development tools within our workflow more and more each day. Working in this often challenging and dynamic environment is frequently made easier by the kindness of strangers in the form of freely-available tools and … Continue reading
Posted in Technicalities
Tagged: CSS, design, development tools, e-mail, email, fonts, HTML, HTML5, web fonts
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Gotham-Light Ain’t a Web Font
Here’s something peculiar I came across recently: On the left is what I saw in Chrome and on the right is what I saw in Chrome after I’d deleted ‘Gotham-Light’ from the beginning of that page’s <body> font stack within … Continue reading
More Notes on Coding HTML for Email
[First, don't yell at me—I know HTML is a markup language. But, until a better term/phrase comes along than "marking-up" this is what you're getting. Anyway, on to the topic at hand...] Since publishing my tome, HTML Email: Coding Like … Continue reading
SXSW 2011 Wrap-Up
SXSW Interactive 2011 is finally over and I’m once again sifting through a stack of biz cards, stickers and miscellaneous scraps of paper with email addresses and twitter handles scribbled on them. Once again I’m weighing the cost of entrance, … Continue reading
HTML Email: Coding Like It’s 1999
Okay, why HTML Email? Doesn’t it seem you’re constantly having to design and/or code more and more eblasts and newsletters? Didn’t you, at first, agree with the marketing folks that it’s a total no-brainer and that you could knock it … Continue reading
Posted in Technicalities
Tagged: CSS, e-mail, email, Gmail, Hotmail, HTML, mobile, Outlook, Yahoo Mail
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Always Display the Current Year in your © Copyright Notice
January 1st comes around every year at the same time, but it used to always catch me off guard with respect to updating my websites’ copyright notices. That is until I found this handy little code snippet. First, let me … Continue reading
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