MetaFilter posts tagged with HTML

Efficient Mondrian

brundlefly — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:09:02 -0800

"Efficient Mondrian is a tongue-in-cheek art installation which generates HTML table compositions in the style of Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red from the text of The Principles of Scientific Management by FW Taylor. It does this every two minutes, posting the results to twitter." [via mefi projects]

Why do we have an IMG element?

chunking express — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:58:25 -0800

Why do we have an IMG element?

HTML Playground

minifigs — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:13:00 -0800

HTML Playground allows you to learn HTML and CSS by example.

The State of the Web 2008

netbros — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:25:52 -0800

The State of the Web 2008 is a report from Web Directions that includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 questions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today’s web professionals employ. The survey was open for just under 3 weeks, from December 1st to 20th 2008. In total, over 1200 designers and developers from around the world responded to the survey. Respondents were likely to be self-educating, “early adopters” who keep abreast of developments in their field. Here are the tabular results. In short, what did the survey find? Some quite surprising results include:

just how few of the respondents use any form of Internet Explorer for their day to day web use (with only 3 out of over 1200 respondents using IE8), and similarly how few use Google Chrome as their primary browser, despite the splash the launch of that browser recently
nearly half of respondents use Mac OS X as their primary operating system, and only 10% use Windows Vista
less than a third of respondents test their web sites with Internet Explorer 8 (while Mobile Safari comes in at 20%, and Chrome at 40%)

There’s also a great deal of interest in terms of the nitty-gritty of web design philosophy and practice, from the high percentage of respondents who use JavaScript (around 95%), to the very small uptake of Silverlight (around 2% of all respondents) to the very high percentage of database driven sites (96%), overwhelmingly run on open source databases (over 80%). The number of responses, 1234 total, and the results themselves definitely provide both food for thought, and in many cases, cause for optimism that web development best practices are becoming more widely adopted over time. Web Directions conducts two major conferences annually in Sydney, Australia and Vancouver, Canada, and covers the full range of interests for web professionals - web design, front-end and and back-end development, information architecture, interaction design, accessibility, data visualization and much more. Their more focused conferences home in on specific areas and segments, as seen from their podcasts, slides, and other presentation materials.

Obama is inclusive in his support for PNGs

finite — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:49:51 -0800

Despite his carefully cultivated “maverick” image, McCain is playing it traditional and conservative by using HTML 4.01, the W3C spec from 1999.

60 elements remain.

divabat — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:06:29 -0800

How many HTML elements can you name in five minutes?

Untitled

31d1 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:04:33 -0800

Untitled , HTML, 400 x 300 pixels.

rendur 2.1 - HTML / CSS Rendering Site

davebug — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:25:09 -0800

rendur 2.1 - Dynamic HTML/CSS preview in your browser. A quick way to try out a bit of HTML and CSS code. Whatever you put in the box renders to its left. Now works in IE, though it's a bit better in Firefox (thanks to on-the-fly style sheet definitions). [via mefi projects]

Make the Metafilter you wanna make!

ph00dz — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:53:13 -0800

Mozilla Bug 97284: Allow page to make arbitrary elements user-editable in browser (contentEditable attribute) With a wee pinch of javascript that you paste into your address bar, you can edit this -- or any -- page:
javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Make the Metafilter you always wanted by flipping your browser into design mode with document.body.contentEditable='true' or document.designMode ='on'.

ObscureTags.com

Spike — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:33:17 -0800

ObscureTags.com, a budding collection of obscure, deprecated, and outcast HTML tags. [via Projects]

It's...so...FRUSTRATING

Captaintripps — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:28:17 -0800

Can you get to seven in this puzzle using clues hidden in the text, images, HTML and CSS? If you can get to the seventh page, can you get to fourteen? How about get to 28?

CIRCORIPOPOLO GOES AIRTISTIQUE

lemonfridge — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:52:49 -0800

WARNING: They will resize your browser. (Clever HTML/Javascript. Firefox recommended)

Web programming references

Roger Dodger — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:59:30 -0800

Web programmers take note, gotAPI is an excellent collection of searchable programming references wrapped up into a customizable interface.

Sketchzilla.com

Sir Mildred Pierce — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:56:15 -0800

What is this Sketchzilla thing?! It is whatever you want it to be. It's a community art project. It's a funhouse. It's an art gallery. It's a madlib. It's a mad house. It's an html monster. It's a butteryfly ballot. It's the 10 most wanted. It's a flip book. It's noisy. It's the flag of the internet. Oh and it's occasionally NSFW. It is always changing and morphing and mutating in to something new, by you. I can't believe that Sketchzilla was the only surviving member of its species... But if we continue conducting nuclear tests... it's possible that another Sketchzilla might appear somewhere in the world again.

Type Righter

Robot Johnny — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:14:10 -0800

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. Robert Bringhurt's undisputed bible of typography until now has been limited to print design. This site, a work in progress, presents his principles one at a time, and explains how to follow them as a web designer using HTML and CSS.

Greasemonkey + Ruby = MouseHole

freshgroundpepper — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:34:36 -0800

You've heard of Greasemonkey (which allows you to remix web pages in firefox), you might also remember the Ruby Programming Language that all of the cool kids are talking about these days. Mix the two together, make it useable through any modern browser (using a proxy), and voila MouseHole!

Are you a designer?

djdrue — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:44:13 -0800

Are you a designer? Maybe your just making a CD label, or creating an invitation. Forgot the standard ad banner size? Don't worry, all this and more is right at your fingertips at the Designer's Tool Box.

the death of productivity, redux

felix betachat — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:13:39 -0800

Metababy is still resting. But if you can tolerate a near interminable lag, betamaybe appears open for business.

It Was Shit.

armoured-ant — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 06:28:45 -0800

February, 1989.

Tlogmer — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:45:57 -0800

February, 1989.
The U.S.S.R. leaves Afghanistan, a fatwa is issued for Salman Rushdie, Tim Berner-Lee is writing a proposal for something called "hypertext", Salvador Dalí is laid to rest, and Terry Gross interviews William Gibson.

It's really, really, really bad

tommasz — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:24:30 -0800

The World's Worst Website? Well, yes, it is really bad, but is it the worst? More importantly, isn't there a better way to educate budding web designers? How about sites that encourage, with examples of what to do, rather than the opposite? [via The Red Ferret Journal] [SFW, annoying MIDI]

blink blink

reklaw — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:15:44 -0800

Before the dotcom boom, before Google (but slightly after Comic Sans)... there was blink. Let me be clear: I am not advocating or condoning the use of blink. Blink is by far and without a doubt the most hated proprietary element ever created. It is bad for the environment. Or, then again, could it be a tag that has the potential to be used to good effect with a bit of creative thought? I'll leave it up to you...

Well then, I quit.

yerfatma — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:09:45 -0800

Web-based Humor at It's Finest
Words fail me. DeCloak sells (I'm guessing) an HTML templating system that works in tables. But they can't make it work in CSS. The good news is there's no reason to use CSS:
Q: TABLES are for TABULAR DATA and not meant for Web Page Layout . . .
A: Last time I checked, most web sites use a database. And databases are just a bunch of tables in the first place, hence tabular data. [from Zeldman]

Now you see it, now you don't

dg — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:10:19 -0800

Now you see it, now you don't. The infamous blink tag, maligned for so long by almost, but not quite everyone, can now be supported in IE. Isn't that great news?

Open Source Web Design

oissubke — Fri, 30 May 2003 06:05:44 -0800

Looking for a design for your next website? Open Source Web Design is a site that offers tons of free web design templates that you can take and modify for your own needs.