http://meyerweb.com Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it's largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:10:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An anonymized copy of the data collected in the 2008 Survey has been turned over to some professional statisticians, as we did last year, and we're waiting to hear back from them before moving into writing the full report. But there's no reason we can't have a little fun ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/09/23/survey-mapping/ I don't know about you, but I find the results of the People magazine cover Ericsperiment (thanks for the term, Bob!) to be quite interesting. The boiled-down version of the results is: just about everyone saw what I did, but nearly everyone drew the wrong conclusions about what I ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/09/18/people-and-places/ I was in line to buy a few groceries and spotted the latest issue of People magazine in the point-of-sale magazine rack, the one with the McCain family on the cover. Something about the cover just seemed a little bit... off. Do you see it, too? There's a metaphor ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/09/14/placement/ I hope I'm not too late to say so, but the early bird registration deadline for An Event Apart Chicago is this coming Monday. Last chance to save $100 on the last show of 2008! Between now and the Chicago event, I'll be back in lovely Destin, Florida for this ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/09/11/eventful-2/ There's a new beta of MW Latest Tweet available. It does four new things. Four and a half if you count the new options setting as a half. All the files are in the mw_latest_tweet directory now, instead of having the plugin PHP outside of that directory like 1.0 ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/09/04/mw-latest-tweet-11b1/ I'm going to get back to posting here in just a bit with word of conference appearances (some overseas), plugin updates, and a small elegy, but first I need a little help with WordPress and subversion, if someone could spare the cycles to assist a newb. (Which would be ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/09/03/subverting-wordpress/ Okay, so yes, I posted about this two weeks ago and haven't said anything since, but still: we're halfway to the close of this year's survey, so if you haven't already done so, please devote ten minutes to taking it now! You'll make your voice heard along with literally ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/08/14/survey-halfway/ Ladies and gentlemen, it's back, bigger and better than ever. Please read Jeffrey's wonderful introduction, and then start answering! It shouldn't take much more than 10 minutes to complete (it took me 6 minutes, 44 seconds, but who's counting?). Last year, we had an astonishing 32,831 responses; I can ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/07/29/i-took-the-2008-ala-survey/ In support of the still-to-be-finished proposal for allowing most HTML 5 elements to become hyperlinks, I've written a quick proof-of-concept demo for your perusal. Basically, it's a page with some JavaScript that captures the whole document tree, looks for any elements with an href attribute, and then sprinkles some ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/07/23/any-element-linking-demo/ At one point during An Event Apart Boston---for which I finally uploaded my few pictures, to add to the much larger pool---I observed that Boston, like parts of New York City and most European cities, is a place where maintaining a relation to the cardinal compass points is almost impossible. ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/07/08/phone-for-direction/ Kat and I are now doubly parents. Earlier this week, we welcomed Rebecca Alison Meyer into our home and our hearts. We chose Rebecca in honor of Kat's late grandmother, a grand old lady of enormous chutzpah who taught Kat her near-legendary bargaining skills. The middle name, Alison, honors ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/06/18/welcome-2/ The "href everywhere" document (which is officially titled "HTML5: More Flexibile Linking") has been updated, so kindly give it another look and challenge my assertions, use cases (or lack thereof), and any weak points. Unless you consider the whole idea of extending linkability to be a weak point, in ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/06/12/linking-up/ In response to my request, the indomitable Hamish Macpherson has created NeverForgetcerpt, a plugin for WordPress 2.5+ that will warn you if you're about to publish a post that lacks an excerpt. I'm already using it on meyerweb and it's working like a charm. He's also expressed interest ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/06/12/excerpts-exacted-shielding-the-admin/ So after I once again published a post without filling in the excerpt, thus forcing me to go back to fill it in later, I tweeted in a fit of pique: I need a WordPress plugin that won't let me publish a post until I've filled in the excerpt field. Anyone ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/06/10/wanted-excerpt-exacter/ Just when you thought the whole embedded-video thing couldn't get any worse, here I come with videos featuring, well, me. The most recent is a short clip from one of my presentations at An Event Apart back in April, debug / reboot, where I comment at my usual pace on the ... http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/06/10/caught-in-the-camera-eye/