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Snap: A Haskell Web Framework: Home - Snap is a simple web development framework for unix systems, written in the Haskell programming language.Tags: Web; Development; Framework; Haskell; FunctionalProgramming;  Font Preview - Google Font Directory -… more »

Adactio: Journal—The format of The Long Now - What format should we be storing our (textual) cultural artefacts in so that they can be understood in 10000 years time? Jeremy Keith makes the case for HTML.Tags: BlogPost; Standards; HTML5; Culture; … more »

Understand The Web · Ben Ward - There was a big hooha in the web standards world last week as, first, Joe Hewitt bemoaned the state of web development, then Steve Jobs took his feud with Adobe to the next level by publically disparaging the 'openness' of… more »

Daniel Davis - The HTML5 <ruby> element in words of one syllable or less - If you've been wondering what the ruby element is for, here's a simple explanation.Tags: BlogPost; HTML5; Tips;  jcotton - A jQuery like library for manipulating drawin… more »

The CSS3 Flexible Box Model - The flexible box model allows you to have a collection of elements which completely fill a variable width container.Tags: CSS3; BlogPost; Layout; Tips;  Akihabara - A library for producing retro-style games using canvas… more »

Orientation Example - Using media queries to detect viewport orientation.Tags: CSS3; Layout; Tips;  A Simple CSS Drop-Cap - Using selectors to target the first character and first line of your text.Tags: CSS; Typography; Tips;  Resolution depen… more »

Building sites without using IDs or classes - An experiment: Laying out a page using only advanced selectors like nth-child.Tags: BlogPost; CSS3; Layout;  CSS generated content techniques - Opera Developer Community - Although CSS2 has limited suppo… more »

An essay on W3C's design principles - "Why doesn't HTML include tags for style? Why can't you put text inside SMIL? Why doesn't CSS include commands to transform a document? Why, in short, does W3C modularize its specification and why in this particular… more »

The hgroup element | HTML5 Doctor - Understanding the difference between hgroup and header elements and the implications for the document outlining algorithm.Tags: BlogPost; HTML5;  codedread SVG Support Chart - A chart showing the levels of browser… more »

Why websites shouldn't accommodate disabled users | Because it's good - Don't accommodate disabled users as some sort of afterthough, design your website to be usable by everyone from the start.Tags: BlogPost; Accessibility; Usability;  Website desi… more »

Sending Email From Your Web Site [Alex Reisner] - A nice summary of all the factors to consider if you're setting up a web server which will be sending emails.Tags: Linux; Email; Server; Tips;  Cool Tools and Toys for Web Developers - Some tools to… more »