Recreating the button | stopdesign
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls).
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Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study | cxpartners
cxpartners has an interesting eye tracking study on form design. They distill the results into a few simple guidelines which are definitely worth keeping in mind when designing forms.
Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web
Unfortunately, Web APIs haven’t provided the functionality to copy text to the clipboard through JavaScript, which is why visiting GitHub with Flash disabled shows an ugly grey box where the button is supposed to be. Fortunately, we have a solut...
When I give a button and a link the same styles, why is the link one pixel higher?
It's not logical, so don't be too hard on yourself. You need to give it a height and change the box-sizing and display:
button
input[type="reset"],
input[type="button"],
input[type="submit"],
input[type="file"] > input[typ...
PragDave: The RADAR Architecture: RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient
So, as a result, people using RESTful ideas to talk to browsers have to put the smarts back on the server. They invent new URLs which (for example) return a resource, but return it all wrapped up in the HTML needed to display it as a form for brow...
ignore the code » The Pitfalls of Switching
Not all icons in the Finder are created equal. There are the normal file and folder icons. Then there are disk icons, which appear in the same context as normal icons, but behave differently. Then there are the proxy icons in window title bars. Th...
HTML5 and Web Video: Questions for the Industry from the Community
What are Google’s plans for turning WebM into a genuinely open standard, one that is based on consensus like the rest of W3C’s HTML5 effort? Would Google fully support such an effort? Even the WebM project’s domain is controlled by Google. Google ...
privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
We’re making changes to how :visited works in Firefox. We’re not sure what release this will be part of yet and the fixes are still making their way through code review, but we wanted to give a heads up to people as soon as we understood how we wa...
24 ways: Designing For The Switch
For a long time on the web, we’ve been typographically spoilt. Yes, you heard me correctly. Think about it: our computers come with web fonts already installed; fonts that have been designed specifically to work well online and at small size; and ...
The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » The longdesc lottery
It turned out that the test subject didn't know that longdesc even existed before the tester told him about it. Can you blame him?