9 Best Articles in 2021
Brain Pickings
Why We Like What We Like: Poet and Philosopher George Santayana on the Formation and Confirmation of…
Brain Pickings
3 min read · 154 saves · Jan 7th · “Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.”
18f.gsa.gov
Introducing the U.S. Web Design Standards
18f.gsa.gov
8 min read · 38 saves · From 2015 · The U.S. Web Design Standards is the U.S. government’s very own set of common UI components and visual styles for websites. It’s a resource designed to make things easier for government designers and developers, while raising the bar on what the American people can expect from their digital experiences.
phptherightway.com
PHP: The Right Way
phptherightway.com
146 saves · From 2012 · An easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative PHP tutorials around the Web
medium.com
I’ve seen the future, it’s full of HTML.
medium.com
3 min read · 119 saves · From 2017 · WebComponents are more than standards.
UX Collective
Web Accessibility Standards: an overview for designers
UX Collective
~12 min read · 49 saves · 2020-03-02 · The term Accessibility covers a very vast field of standards that comes with a confusing myriad of acronyms.
playbook.cio.gov
U.S. Web Design Standards | U.S. Web Design Standards
playbook.cio.gov
2 min read · 42 saves · From 2015 · Skip to main content The Standards are a design system that allows federal agencies to quickly prototype and deploy digital products using a baseline of design patterns. We offer a customized training…
Facebook Newsroom
Updating the Values That Inform Our Community Standards
Facebook Newsroom
21 saves · 2019-09-12 · We’re expanding the values that serve as the basis for our Community Standards — the guidelines for what is and isn’t allowed on Facebook.
XKCD Comic
xkcd: Standards
XKCD Comic
96 saves · From 2016 · This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.
cssdb.org
CSS Database
cssdb.org
3 min read · 29 saves · From 2018 · A comprehensive list of CSS features and their positions in the process of becoming implemented web standards.
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MIT Technology Review
My beauty score is 73.5. What's yours?
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · 43 saves · Mar 5th · The computers ranking facial traits perpetuate impossible beauty standards– and display racist tendencies.
OneZero
How Google Will Target Ads Without Singling Users Out
OneZero
6 min read · 34 saves · Mar 5th · A handful of new standards will personalize ads without the privacy violations of today
POLITICO
Ivanka Trump's flagship policy program slammed by government auditors
POLITICO
2 min read · 20 saves · Mar 31st · She touted more rigorous standards for women's empowerment, but USAID delivered the opposite.
CSS-Tricks
Chapter 7: Standards
CSS-Tricks
20+ min read · 12 saves · Mar 11th · It was the year 1994 that the web came out of the shadow of academia and onto the everyone’s screens. In particular, it was the second half of the second
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Smashing Magazine
Web Standards: The What, The Why, And The How
Smashing Magazine
20+ min read · 42 saves · From 2019 · Web Standards, and the documentation to support them, provide huge insight into ‘the why’ and ‘the what’ of the world wide web. In this article, we take a look at the history of Web Standards, how to…
Facebook Newsroom
An Update on How We Are Doing At Enforcing Our Community Standards
Facebook Newsroom
28 saves · 2019-05-23 · We're publishing our third Community Standards Enforcement Report.
TechCrunch
Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware
TechCrunch
2 min read · 50 saves · From 2019 · Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, citing difficulty meeting its own standards. “After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled…
keithjgrant.com
Meet the New Dialog Element
keithjgrant.com
3 min read · 75 saves · From 2018 · HTML 5.2 has introduced a new element for native modal dialog boxes. At first glance, it seems fairly straightforward (and it is), but as I’ve been playing around with it, I’ve found it
A List Apart
Standards for Writing Accessibly
A List Apart
5 min read · 97 saves · 2020-01-23 · In this excerpt from Writing is Designing, Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle discuss critical accessibility considerations for content authors, including reading order, references to additional cont…
Stripe
Designing accessible color systems
Stripe
9 min read · 472 saves · 2019-10-15 · How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
The Outline
Netflix, Microsoft, and Google just quietly changed how the web works
The Outline
7 min read · 136 saves · From 2017 · The organization that sets standards for the web just failed to beat back a stupid, greedy technology.
The Atlantic
The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable
The Atlantic
5 min read · 234 saves · 2020-12-29 · The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence.
papersizes.io
Paper Sizes
papersizes.io
160 saves · From 2017 · A simple, free resource for finding the international standards for paper sizes
