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A List Apart, for people who make websites From pixels to prose, coding to content. Since 1998, A List Apart has explored the design, developmen
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Live on Friday, Sept. 4, from 2-3 PM ET, join Patrick Neeman and ALA publisher Jeffrey Zeldman on the need for standards...
08/31/2026

Live on Friday, Sept. 4, from 2-3 PM ET, join Patrick Neeman and ALA publisher Jeffrey Zeldman on the need for standards to protect the open web and web content creators in the age of AI.

A generation ago, Jeffrey Zeldman helped end the browser wars by making one case relentlessly: build to standards, not to vendors. That fight is back—now o

08/20/2026

Improved CSS Text-Stroke: Position the text stroke beneath the text fill, preventing it from crowding out the letterforms. Not a hack or workaround! How can work now.

Missing important titles in your web UX and content design collection since we were forced to shutter A Book Apart? Our ...
08/17/2026

Missing important titles in your web UX and content design collection since we were forced to shutter A Book Apart? Our authors have your back!

Authors Together: The classic books published by A Book Apart.

A directory of books by the former authors of A Book Apart

Who’s the internet for? Who owns it? What will it take to keep it free? If you missed the July 1 premiere of “Code for t...
07/13/2026

Who’s the internet for? Who owns it? What will it take to keep it free? If you missed the July 1 premiere of “Code for the People” in NYC, there’s video of the live panel discussion that followed the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xelBdOXU9bc

What is the internet actually for? Who gets to own it? And what wil...

“Every team building with artificial intelligence right now believes it is working on a blank frontier. New interface, n...
07/13/2026

“Every team building with artificial intelligence right now believes it is working on a blank frontier. New interface, new rules, no map. That belief is wrong, and it is expensive.”

Patrick Neeman argues it’s time for a new standards movement. I approve this message.

https://medium.com//92394884dc0d

Replace modal and popover glue code with plain HTML: Invoker Commands: Wiring Buttons to Dialogs and Popovers Without Ja...
07/10/2026

Replace modal and popover glue code with plain HTML:

Invoker Commands: Wiring Buttons to Dialogs and Popovers Without JavaScript | By Dan Halloran

The Invoker Commands API lets a button declare what it controls with command and commandfor, replacing modal and popover glue code with plain HTML.

“Treat every platform as temporary, because it is. Archive out of love—for the things we’ve made, the conversations we’v...
07/08/2026

“Treat every platform as temporary, because it is. Archive out of love—for the things we’ve made, the conversations we’ve had, the small, stubborn act of leaving a mark.”

The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants.

“We need to stop pretending that ‘the cloud’ is a place. It’s not a place. It’s a promise—and promises are only as good ...
07/07/2026

“We need to stop pretending that ‘the cloud’ is a place. It’s not a place. It’s a promise—and promises are only as good as the entity making them.”

The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants.

✩ We Ran a Huge Social Experiment on a Whole Generation. It Turned Out to Be TerribleGorgeously written, eminently reada...
06/15/2026

✩ We Ran a Huge Social Experiment on a Whole Generation. It Turned Out to Be Terrible

Gorgeously written, eminently readable mini-essay by the always memorable Jamie Marsland.

Today, the UK government announced plans to ban social media for under-16s. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the restrictions are needed to protect children’s wellbeing and mental health. Slightly to my own surprise, I think they are right. This is awkward for me. I am a huge free speech advocate....

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