Marco Zehe wundert sich in seinem Blog über die Frage ob zusammen oder getrennt gezahlt werde, wenn er mit seiner Frau Gastronomie in Anspruch nimmt. Warum diese Frage? Stellen Kellner die heutzutage jedem Paar, das ohne Kinder unterwegs ist? Sehen wir nicht wie ein Pärchen aus? …

Christiane Link vom allseits geschätzten Behindertenparkplatz-Blog schreibt jetzt auch für die ZEIT. Ihr neues Blog heißt „ Stufenlos“ und ist natürlich eine Empfehlung wert. (Und ja, es gibt auch einen RSS-Feed. Das ist ja nicht mehr selbstverständlich.)

Google has recently released Noto, a font that was developed to cater for all languages. It comes in a serif and sans-serif variant and is split up by characters used in different regions, most likely to reduce the file size of the individual fonts. It is also up on Google Fonts …

A photo I took on our vacation in the Hunsrück area.

Everything’s shiny and new around here! And it’s not just a visual refresh, the technology here is all new. I’ve switched from my beloved Textpattern CMS to Wordpress. I didn’t expect that to happen, but it allows me to create content for this English and the German website at …

I’m going to continue to publish here on my own website, journal, blog, or whatever you want to call it. It’s still possible that I might lose everything but I’d rather take the responsibility for that, rather than placing my trust in ”the cloud” someone else’s server. I’m …

In this fantastic video from the Webstock ’13 conference, Mike Monteiro shows that designers need to take responsibility for their actions. There are many things I touched on with my article Be Proud to be a Web Developer from almost a year ago, and it’s worth watching. From the …

[… M]ethodologies [like OOCSS and BEM] attempt to apply the principles of Object-Oriented Programming to CSS. Notwithstanding the conceptual incompatibilities between a declarative style language and object-oriented software design principles, these methodologies introduce …

Christian Heilmann shows an inspiring speaker from Spain, Luz Rello, who talks about the often overlooked topic of accessibility: Dyslexia. In the TEDx talk she really is very passionate about the topic and it shows, and I agree with Chris that we need more Speakers who can …

Vasilis van Gemert on swiping versus scrolling on the web: > It seems like swiping is considered to be extremely cool. Scrolling, on the other hand, not so much. I understand that new stuff is exciting, and I also understand that new stuff has to be investigated. But I …

After successfully testing Webmentions (a new form of the old Trackback or Pingback mechanisms), Jeremy Keith shows how to parse the content of the sites linking back to display excerpts of their comments: The next step is to do something with the responses. After all, I’ve …

Malte Spitz in the NY Times on the relationship of Germans and Obama: While our respective security services still need to collaborate on both sides of the Atlantic to pursue and prevent organized crime and terrorism, it must be done in a way that strengthens civil liberties and …

Die großartigen Initiatoren des Screenguide (née Webstandardsmagazin) haben mich nach einem Artikel zum Thema IE-Testing gefragt und heraus gekommen ist ein längerer Artikel. Auf den Seiten 62–65 der aktuellen Ausgabe 18 findet ihr eine Anleitung wie man den Internet Explorer …

Patrick H. Lauke on the validator (in a very rough discussion about a semi-important topic): > the validator does the equivalent of a fancy spellcheck. using spellchecking in your word processor does not guarantee that you’re a good writer…

I just listened to the talks of Responsive Day Out from last march as a Podcast. And the talk of Josh Emerson of Clearleft about asset fonts ( Slides on Speaker Deck) caught my interest. Asset fonts is just a more fancy, yet more fitting, name for icon fonts. He makes a very …

Performance is very important and we should al prioritizing it, especially in the responsive context. Here’s a solution to tailor jQuery to your needs by removing modules that are unused, using GruntJS, the best task runner on the planet.

Yesterday, the Web Standards Project announced that its work is done. Mission accomplished. What they did is create a collaborative environment where everyone could get help in terms of web standards and how to use them. They provided precise help and thus led to a new …

This basically is a follow-up to the article “A better way to use icon fonts” published about a year ago. In the article, I describe techniques which make icon fonts less annoying to screen reader users. In the meantime a lot happened, and there are better techniques around. My …

The “old, grumpy man of accessibility”, John Foliot blogged about the problem of people being locked-in in browsers and their versions. He also mentions the topic of some people who are not helped by the words “just upgrade to the latest version”: The latest incident that …

Reader’s question: “There are bad boilerplate templates to create websites” Are there any good ones? yatil.net/be-proud-to-be… Roger Johansson ( @rogerjohansson) on Twitter (January 5, 2013) First, I don’t think that just using any boilerplate works well in this day and age, …