I wonder what Apple is up to, a lossless and therefore large file format doesn’t make any sense for FaceTime, yet music files are finally portable.

Daily links for web developers, curated by @vasilis (who held an exciting presentation at this year’s Fronteers Jam). Language is Dutch, but there is an app for that.Update: From November 1st, 2011 the Daily Nerd is published in English. Enjoy!

… by Jenn Lukas. It looks like mostly the runner ups in each category felt in love for the new elements, probably seeing a chance as a contender there. Seeing chinese shopping site Taobao there, given the enormous percentage of IE6 users there. It’s exciting to look around and …

Today I read the latest in the long, long, long line of why I won’t support IE6. How fucking droll. If IE6 support is part of your job or the contract – then that’s what it is, that’s the job, that’s the challenge of your work. Thanks for writing those words, Remy. We don’t …

I’m generally not a fan of pure visual comps but Andy Ruthledge brings an important point across: Content needs to be the main thing on a website, those distractions and superfluous elements are not in favor of the users.

The GEL guidelines are a reference point for all designers creating BBC websites (future iterations will also incorporate mobile and IPTV recommendations). A compendium about how the BBC’s website work, a great resource. Probably every web project should have something like …

In short: They sued Google for including their web sites into Google News and won. Google says they have to remove them from search as well to fulfill the rule. Newspapers cry.What I still don’t understand is that newspapers don’t think of Google News as free advertisement. The …

Here we are, yatil.net is live. It is the successor of yatil.de – my long-lasting German blog. This publication will be English only. I want to share links and articles with you, getting into the details of web design and web development. My main objectives at the moment are …

If you care about your online presence, you must own it. I do, and that’s why my email address has always been at my own domain, not the domain of any employer or webmail service. Marco Arment

Performance is a browser level issue, it is not something for HTML/CSS authors to fix or work around. As long as we are authoring valid and sensible HTML and CSS, we should not need to resort to such ridiculous rules simply to enhance the speed at which a given page renders. Nor …

According to this article we should test 38 different screen reader/browser combinations on 3 different platforms, which is totally not a good situation to be in. We need screen reader standards! Differences can’t be that difficult to overcome.

Finally Microsoft’s proprietary stuff is phasing out, the next parser is said to be HTML5 compatible.

Chrome stops its support of the h.264 codec. The developers claim: We expect even more rapid innovation in the web media platform in the coming year and are focusing our investments in those technologies that are developed and licensed based on open web principles. Of course, no …

Goldrausch in Berlin für die Finalisten der BIENE 2010. Insgesamt sechs Mal vergab die Jury diese Auszeichnung in Gold für die besten barrierefreien Webseiten. Unter den vielen Gewinnern ragten vor allem die Angebote von Deutschlandradio Wissen, SOS-Kinderdorf und der Stiftung …

Seit meinem Umzug nach Essen engagiere ich mich im Rahmen des BPSE (Best Practices Stammtisch Essen) für eine Community, die Wert auf Best Practices wie Webstandards, Barrierefreiheit, Design und Usability legt. Zusammen fahren wir nun zur BIENE-Preisverleihung. Die Biene ist …

In den letzten vier Wochen durfte ich gleich 2 Vorträge auf internationalem Parkett halten. Zuerst hielt ich beim Fronteers Jam am Vorabend der exzellenten Fronteers 2010-Konfernz hielt ich (auf Englisch) den Vortrag „Principles of Accessible Web Design“: View Principles of …

View Principles of Accessible Web Design.

Yesterday I was speaking at my first Ignite event at Frankfurt/Main. It was a special edition of the Webmontag which happens at the Brotfabrik every two months. Photo by patricklenz. “Fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking, social, local, global—Ignite is all of these and more. It’s …

Ich durfte für »Bloggen ist Vielfalt« einen kleinen Artikel zu Textpattern schreiben, der nun veröffentlicht wurde: In loser Reihenfolge stellen Blogger und Bloggerinnen auf »Bloggen ist Vielfalt!« ihre Blogsysteme vor. Neben der Liste der Blogsysteme soll dies einen …