Two new articles from the latest issue of A List Apart, issue 251.
Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 by Aaron Gustafson
For seven years, the DOCTYPE switch has stood designers and developers in good stead as a toggle between standards mode and quirks mode. But when IE7, with its greatly improved support for standards, “broke the […]

Get it while it’s hot!
Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation by ROEL VAN GILS
Hide e-mail addresses from spam bots while revealing them to readers as real, clickable links. This transparent and fully automated solution guarantees that all addresses on your site will be safe—even the ones that show up in blog comments!
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Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written by NICK PADMORE
“Got Milk?”, “Don’t leave […]

I have completed another wonderful issue of A List Apart. Issue 245 packs in another two great additions to the magazine from two equally outstanding authors. Here is the quick:
Get Out from Behind the Curtain by Sarah B. Nelson -
Client input: positive process or creative noose? Many designers would probably say the latter. But it […]