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Segnalibri: 21 dicembre 2009 – 8 gennaio 2010

La macchina — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:05:42 +0000

A Form of Madness – Dive Into HTML5
Everybody knows about web forms, right? Make a
, a few elements, maybe an , finish it off with an button, and you’re done.
24 ways: The Web Is Your CMS
It is amazing what you can do these days with the services offered on the web.
Using HTML Symbol Entities
Have you seen the snowman ☃ symbol before? If not, continue on this post to find more surprises.
Gibberish rock song written by Italian composer to sound like English – Boing Boing
People, you won't believe how stupid italians are: this discussion became the most important news on italian tv today! They are talking about it in every channel, reporting that the guy who runs this site said that Celentano has invented rap (and this a completely fake report, since just some of the folks here wrote that thing about rap in the comments).
The brains behind: Internet Archaeology – .net magazine
GeoCities may be dead and gone, but Ryder Ripps, director and founder of the Internet Archaeology project, explains how he’s keeping the memories alive.
Exploding the myths of web design – .net magazine
Everyone knows it, so it must be true, right? Wrong! Craig Grannell talks to industry figures to uncover some major misconceptions in web design and development.

Segnalibri: 17 dicembre 2009 – 21 dicembre 2009

La macchina — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:17:23 +0000

24 ways: Incite A Riot
This is not a joke. We are seriously being told to use semantically meaningless elements to mark up content that is semantically meaningful.
Five Technologies That Will Keep Shaping the Web in 2010
As we’re coming to the end of this year, everyone starts to look towards the next one and there will no doubt be an upsurge of articles predicting the web trends of 2010 in the next days to come.
Please Scroll
Love your scrollbar.
Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3 – Smashing Magazine
Create some practical elements and layouts.
Internet no alla censura basta un clic – LASTAMPA.it
Dopotutto l’antidoto agli abusi in Rete già viaggia sulla Rete, basta un clic.

Segnalibri: 12 dicembre 2009 – 16 dicembre 2009

La macchina — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:04:47 +0000

Microsoft-Ue, la guerra è finita Ora il browser si potrà scegliere – Tecnologia – Repubblica.it
Si è chiuso il lungo braccio di ferro tra l'Antitrust europeo e il colosso di sotware americano. Che evita una supermulta. Cosa cambia per gli utenti europei di Windows
24 ways: Going Nuts with CSS Transitions
I’m going to show you how CSS 3 transforms and WebKit transitions can add zing to the way you present images on your site.
Old News: News Sites
In an industry that is trying to figure out how to handle itself online, maybe the axiom of less being more really does apply.
Mockingbird
Create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
Welcome to Pictory – Pictory
Your besto photo stories.

Segnalibri: 1 dicembre 2009 – 11 dicembre 2009

La macchina — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:05:02 +0000

Ipertesto e postmoderno nella letteratura statunitense – Treccani Portale
Ti arrivano addosso quattro miliardi di bit, il novantanove per cento merda, e selezionare è un'impresa impossibile.
Best Buy and RDFa
“In his talk at the Search Engine Strategies 2009 conference in Chicago, Jay Myers, Lead Web Development Engineer for Best Buy, Co., Inc., reported very surprising effects of adding GoodRelations and RDFa to their products pages:
Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users.
Letteratura e informatica – Treccani Portale
In una prospettiva in cui si allarga vistosamente lo spettro della 'comunicazione', nel mentre si assottiglia la 'conoscenza' non solo mutano lavori e saperi tradizionali: di nuovi ne sorgono, nuove competenze sono richieste e divengono necessarie, e dunque val la pena di interrogarsi se ci troviamo davvero dinanzi a una svolta epocale, a una mutazione interna, tipologica dell'equilibrio fra scrittura e lettura che ha funzionato fin qui.
Gearing up for 2012 International AIDS Conference | The White House
The Web Standards Mafia
I may refer to the WaSP people as a group, but in reality they were more like the Mafia with the mission to end bad browser support.

Segnalibri: 30 novembre 2009

La macchina — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:50:20 +0000

Who invented the spacer.gif?
I got an email from David Siegel himself, where he confirms that he invented the spacer.GIF technique.
The Media Equation – For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise – NYTimes.com
Tiny netbooks and iPhones, which serve as portals to the cloud, contain more informational firepower than entire newsrooms possessed just two decades ago. And they are ginning content from their audiences in the form of social media or finding ways of making ambient information more useful. They are jaded in the way youth requires, but have the confidence that is a gift of their age as well.
Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model – NYTimes.com
European regulators view MySQL as sort of a database of the people, a low-cost alternative to Oracle’s costly proprietary products. The regulators worry that Oracle may stop improving MySQL in favor of protecting its core traditional products, and customers will lose an important option in the database market.

Segnalibri: 26 novembre 2009 – 27 novembre 2009

La macchina — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:30:11 +0000

Smashing Magazine Killed The Community (Or Maybe It Was Me)
The web design community is split into two sides: 1. loves to view every single list article there is 2. hates that list articles were ever invented. I fall into both camps because to me some list articles do serve a purpose, but when we start to see Design Trends of Spa Websites I think we might be going a bit too far.
A Zing Too Far – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
XHTML, with its clearer and stricter rules, came out just as many of us were rediscovering semantic markup and learning of its rich value in promoting content.
Composite Layout | drupal.org
Composite Layout allows your nodes to be displayed in complex layouts. Currently, two and three column layouts are provided. You can also add other nodes, blocks, and even CCK fields to your node's layout. The content area of your node is divided into zones and you decide what should appear in those zones. Zones are essentially the same as Drupal blocks, but they apply to nodes rather than the entire site.

Segnalibri: 23 novembre 2009 – 25 novembre 2009

La macchina — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:11:44 +0000

Stop designing websites, start designing posters « Boagworld
A new generation of websites are emerging that look less like websites and more like posters. They are easy to use, visually engaging and most of all different.
Which is more useful? Google’s links or the actual home page? – (37signals)
It’s interesting how many of Google’s expanded listings have become even more useful than the home page behind the link.
The Information Architecture of Behavior Change Websites
The information architecture (IA)—the structure of website information—is an important but often overlooked factor to consider when adapting behavioral strategies developed in office-based settings for Web delivery.
Sequel Pro
MySQL database management app for Mac OS X.
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell
Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from.

Segnalibri: 18 novembre 2009 – 20 novembre 2009

La macchina — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:15:56 +0000

"Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
For the longest time, we have focused on sites of information as a destination, of accessing information as a process, of producing information as a task. What happens when all of this changes?
Daring Fireball: The OS Opportunity
There are massive business markets where Windows remains essential. But the Web is a bigger platform than Windows. The Web is universal. Every computer is on the Web. The Web provides us with a core set of software and APIs that work everywhere.
Obama Team Challenges Web Developers — Open Source — InformationWeek
The White House is planning to make increasing use of RDFa, a way of tagging metadata to content that could make hard-to-find data more searchable. "We have a lot of primary source content and have it exposed in ways that traditionally hasn't been done by government," Cole said. "Instead of just having PDFs that are scanned, we're trying to reverse that trend."
A Design Apart: Q&A with Jeffrey Zeldman | Sparksheet
Content informs design; design without content is decoration.
An Entirely Other Day: Birdhouse for Your Soul
That small obituary — hosted on some cheesy advertising circular’s Web site, last modified in January 2001 — has sat out there, patiently waiting for someone to need it.
Typekit
Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.

Segnalibri: 17 novembre 2009 – 18 novembre 2009

La macchina — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:14:04 +0000

Typography on the Web: Questions for Jeffrey Zeldman—Part 1
The difficulty has to do with the fear of piracy. Thus, while modern versions of Safari, Firefox, and Opera all support @font-face embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts, Microsoft's Internet Explorer only supports @font-face embedding of Embedded OpenType (.EOT), a format that embeds fonts on the page but obscures them so they cannot be pirated.
A List Apart: Articles: Real Web Type in Real Web Context
Now that browsers support real fonts in web pages and we can license complete typefaces for such use, let’s move past the hype of web type and think pragmatically about how to use real fonts in our web projects.
Nice Web Type – Where to get web fonts
Let’s revisit WOFF, talk about EULAs, and list some places to find typefaces that are legal for use with the CSS @font-face property, including type delivery services, free font libraries, and curated lists of fonts available for web linking.
Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
By supporting semantic web standards, Yahoo! Search and site owners can bring a far richer and more useful search experience to consumers.
XML.com: The Web is Ruined and I Ruined it
Some people say I've ruined the Web, and to them it's true.