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• A Form of Madness – Dive Into HTML5
  Everybody knows about web forms, right? Make a <form>, a few <input type="text"> elements, maybe an <input type="password">, finish it off with an <input type="submit"> 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.

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• 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.

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• The Berlin Wall, 20 years gone – The Big Picture – Boston.com
  Twenty years ago, on the night of November 9, 1989, following weeks of pro-democracy protests, East German authorities suddenly opened their border to West Germany.
• Una morte "percepita" – Treccani Portale
  A essere in pericolo non è il congiuntivo, bensì il dovere del dubbio, la capacità di parlare in termini di possibilità e non di sole (e improbabili) certezze, la credibilità di una classe dirigente abituata da almeno quindici anni a vendere slogan al futuro (faremo, costruiremo, approveremo) e non speranze al congiuntivo (che si possa, che si riesca, che funzioni).
• Se li azzecca pure Homer Simpson… – Treccani Portale
  Da decenni, con geometrica regolarità, commentatori più o meno autorevoli tessono, contemporaneamente, l’elogio e il necrologio del congiuntivo, esaltandone le qualità raffinate e constatandone, contemporaneamente, il decesso o l’irreversibile agonia, in particolare nell’italiano parlato.
• Peachpit: The Future of Web Standards
  A Mother Lode of Inventions.
• “Web 2.0 Will Change Everything!” But How? « UK Web Focus
  If Web 2.0 changes everything, why that doesn’t apply as much to professional bodies and universities as it does to high street bookshops?

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• Font Squirrel
  Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
• css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
  The Nerw Road to Enlightenment.
• Design View / Andy Rutledge – How Well Do You Understand Design?
  In order to help spark a bit of interest in fundamentals and/or inspiration for readers (I hope) I’ve put together a little multiple-choice quiz to help test your understanding of design.
• mezzoblue § Isolation
  You probably experience this on a regular basis: a client sends you an illustration or a logo they’d like to use in a project, but it’s a low-res bitmap or a flat image file with a background texture.
• Reinventing HTML | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
  Making standards is hard work.

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• MediaPost Publications Report: Top Keyword Price Nears $100 Per Click 10/15/2009
  The highest-priced keyword in the United States last month sold on Google for $99.44 per click, according to the AdGooroo Search Engine Advertising Update: Q309.
• CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 « Smashing Magazine
  One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8.
• Panatta e le magliette rosse "Così sfidai il dittatore Pinochet" – la storia – Repubblica.it
  L'impresa della Davis del 1976 ora diventa un film di Mimmo Calopresti.
• W3C Semantic Web Activity News – HTML+RDFa First Draft Published
  The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML+RDFa.
• The Coming HTML 5 Train Wreck | XML Today
  We'll be back to the days of the late HTML 3 spec, where web designers despaired of having their web pages act even remotely consistently between browsers, where coders will continue to learn bad habits that not only create more headaches for other coders but also contribute to the overall cost of products, will have web browsers on the desktop that are increasingly out of step with their XML-compliant counterparts in mobile devides.

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• Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen | Webdesigner Depot
  "I find it quite amusing that in the early days of Web usability, critics complained that you couldn’t apply usability methods to websites because they only work for software applications."
• Can You Be a Web Designer?
  Got what it takes?
• XML on the Web
  Primarily (and getting all touchy-feely on you) the Web isn’t a data transfer mechanism, it’s about communication. Forgiving browsers and liberal validation rules lower the barrier to entry to publishing on the Web.
• Allan Jardine | Reflections | Grid
  Grid is a highly configurable JavaScript bookmarklet which overlays a layout grid on any web-site you wish.
• mezzoblue § Starting with @font-face
  Native CSS @font-face rule is becoming increasingly viable.
• Il futuro dei giornali? Va cercato altrove | Apogeonline
  Il giornalismo è un bene pubblico terribilmente costoso, per il quale stanno venendo meno tutte le storiche fonti di finanziamento.

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• How openness unlocks the web’s power – at ZDNet.co.uk
  Two factors have helped make the web what it is — and their legacy still holds the key to its future, says Bruce Lawson.
• Sports Illustrated’s Slide Show – Photos – SI.com
  Diapositive e metadati.
• Microformats, Key Flaws – Jens Meiert
  I like the idea behind microformats, but I’m still not convinced of the way that idea is brought to life.
• A List Apart: Articles: Unwebbable
  It’s time we came to grips with the fact that not every “document” can be a “web page.” Some forms of writing just cannot be expressed in HTML—or they need to be bent and distorted to do so.

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