Posts tagged “frontend”

On web developmentJan 29, 2009

I'm reclaiming "web developer" as a title worth owning. Bad ones build websites; good ones push the web forward as a medium, experimenting and iterating. Stop hiding behind "frontend engineer" or "web architect." If you develop the web, say so proudly.

Google Web Toolkit and a high-level language for the webNov 11, 2007

GWT's cross-browser compilation idea is sound and inevitable, but its layout manager approach is dead wrong. Someone will eventually build a proper high-level language that compiles to universal HTML and CSS, and it needs to stay interface-first. Google's halfway there, which is as good as nowhere.

On the weakness of CSSMar 6, 2005

CSS can't apply multiple background images to a single element, forcing designers to litter their HTML with empty, semantically meaningless divs just to achieve visual effects. The CSS Zen Garden proves the point: nearly every layout there is fixed-width as a direct result of this limitation.

Deco-fabulousJan 30, 2005

Planet Seldo finally has a design. Dom immediately broke it by posting 2000 giant photos, but the layout handles it gracefully. Think of it as a preview of where Seldo.Com is heading visually.