Final article order: ALA Primer, Text-Resize Detection, Alphabet
by Jack Pickard ∙ 29 Comments
"A is for Aaron, who fell down the stairs. K is for Kevin, menaced by bears." No wait, those are just the notes from our last staff meeting. Jack Pickard offers a lighter look at the world of web standards.
by Lawrence Carvalho, Christian Heilmann ∙ 30 Comments
Chris Heilmann and Lawrence Carvalho serve up a way to detect your visitors' text size settings using JavaScript.
by Erin Lynch ∙ 17 Comments
New to A List Apart? Welcome! ALA's own Erin Lynch suggests a few good places to start reading.
In any given day I can find myself reading up on a new W3C proposal, fixing an issue with our tax return, coding an add-on for our product, writing a conference presentation, building a server, creating a video tutorial, and doing front end development for one of our sites. Without clients dictating my workload I’m in the enviable position of being able to choose where to focus my efforts. However, I can’t physically do everything.
“We’re at the cusp of understanding the ultimate value of web publishing platforms, particularly ones that work cross-domain.”–Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.
MapBox's new vector-based map tiles are more stable, more scalable, and customizable to an amazing degree.
