May 2010
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UX Lx - day 2
Second day of UX Lx in Lisbon. Some notes taken during sessions:
Open session: Seduction design: forget the art of persuasion - Sarah Morris
First - great sketch notes by Lucy Spence.
And now a few of my notes:
Let’s start with quote: “Casanova was the first interaction designer in the world”. According to Sarah, he always found an attractive woman with a problem. He solved her problem, she...
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UXLx Lisbon - day 1
I’m at a UX conference in Lisbon. Everything we talk about here is user experience and similar stuff, but I think its genuinely connected to semantics, because both care about meaning of things a lot. So I’ll be posting some notes from the conference here. Hope you enjoy them.
Today I came to the afternoon sessions. There were two open sessions I attended - What’s the story?...
April 2010
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March 2010
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Google support for Microdata
It’s happening. On Tuesday Google announced it’s support Microdata.
Right now they support reviews, people profiles and events.
Hopefully this step will increase interest in Microdata and we’ll see some tools for extracting these informations from browser to actually help users, like Microformats does. Till then I’m sticking with them on clients sites.
But the freedom...
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Colorizing images on :hover with jQuery
On clevis.cz we have black&white images in portfolio. I wanted to colorize them on :hover.
I wanted to do it and had these goals:
Without styles and/or JavaScript there will be just a gray image.
I don’t want to create CSS sprite for each image, it’s time consuming and boring.
I want to use <img> tag for specifying portfolio image in my code.
I still want to preload...
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Solving line-breaking problem
While lunching new web site of company I work for - clevis.cz (which looks so awesome thanks to Josef Richter) - I run into a problem I had problem to solve semantically.
If you look at our site there’re headlines like this one:
I really love their style. However they introduce a problem. The text is specifically divided into two (or more) lines just to look better. No semantics in it...
February 2010
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“All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the...”
– Felix Frankfurter on why we should care about semantics.
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RDFa Working Group lunched.
Yesterday (that is 2. 2. 2010) was officially lunched RDFa Working Group. It’s really an exciting news for everyone interested in semantics.
After W3C discontinued XHTML 2, many people thought, that RDFa is as good as dead. Obviously it’s not.
Among other things this group will support incorporating RDFa into HTML5 and, of course, will be updating and developing RDFa. I’m...
January 2010
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Define: Without Answers
Let me summarize few things:
This site was created in July 2009 and since then I wrote about 5 real articles. Not good.
Internet is full of blogs about web design.
Nobody needs another blog about web design.
I’m not a web designer.
If there’s one thing I’m possessed about, it’s semantics. It’s the next frontier of the web. So I’ll be writing about it.
...
December 2009
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Jak se skutečně narodil Fakturoid
This post is in Czech only.
Příběh Fakturoidu z pohledu člověka, který jeho vývoj sledoval tak nějak z povzdálí
Po světě spolu chodí spousta lidí, ale tihle dva se vyloženě hledali. Nevím, jak se vlastně nakonec našli, ale mělo to určitě něco společného s velikostí českého webového rybníčku.
Ze začátku vše probíhalo naprosto standardně. Nejdřív zjistili, že je baví si spolu povídat. Pak se...
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Stop being creative with class names
So I read today an article on Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood. It’s title says “Microformats: Boon or Bane?” and it really caught my attention. After reading it I just had to write this post.
The article says, among other things, one really true thing about Microformats. They’re really not perfect, they have their flaws. But I believe Jeff Atwood is wrong when it comes to...
November 2009
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Commenting CSS files
I think commenting your CSS files is really important thing to do. Recently I discovered cssdoc.net, a project aimed to port JavaDoc comment style to CSS. I tried to use it on one of my projects and I want to share here my comments structure and I humbly ask you for an opinion. Is it good? Do you see some space for enhancements? How do you comment your css files? I’m looking forward for your...
“I did most of the important work in my career to date using crappy old...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman
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Your CMS needs to evolve
There are literally thousands of content management systems out there. Many of them open sourced or free to use, some of them as hosted services, some of them as classic shareware. And still many of us have an urgent need to WRITE OUR OWN CMS to fit our needs.
In 21. century, when there’s an library for almost everything. When everyone is using some framework. When everyone tends to do ...
“The CUE-2 teams reported 310 different usability problems. The most frequently...”
– Rolf Molich, in an interview with Christine Perfetti
October 2009
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Talk about Web Fonts I gave at WebExpo 2009
I uploaded my presentation at SlideShare. I’m not sure if it’s to much use without words, but maybe video will come out soon too. It’s in Czech, if someone’s interested in translation to English, please ask politely in comments. But no promises :) I feel pretty good about the presentation and the response of the audience had blow me away. I’m happy you liked it, it...
Links about @font-face
So I’m giving a talk about Web Fonts at WebExpo 2009 in Prague this Saturday (17.10. 2009). And because a presentation is a bad place for links I’m posting few of them here. Hope you enjoy them.
There’s so much going on in Web Fonts. Every day there are new discoveries & problems & solutions emerging. I’ll try to keep this list as up-to-date as possible, but no...
August 2009
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Does CSS Needs Variables, Selector Blocks Or...
For a better part of my (short) life I was convinced it does. But lately I can’t help myself not to think that it would make more mess then good.
About a month ago Jeffrey Zeldman published an article “Why Standards Fail”. Among other things he shows there how CSS become so popular. It evolved from a really simple set of rules, which made your web pages look so much better, into...
Apologies & WebExpo 2009
I’m sorry I didn’t write here anything for quite a long time. But I’m going to change it. Starting today I’m going to publish at least 2 articles per week. If I won’t, well… I’ll do 100 pushups. Sounds fair, right?
In a meantime I would like to invite you to WebExpo 2009, the largest Czech web conference which takes place in Prague from 16/10 to...
July 2009
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Object Oriented CSS - should you care?
Few last weeks I’m keep thinking about the concept of OOCSS (Object Oriented CSS, first presented by it’s author Nicole Sullivan at Web Directions North in Denver). It is aimed to make it easy to maintain huge projects with thousands of sites and to make it easy for even beginners to participate in the project.
It works like this: If something on the site looks and behaves somehow it...