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The Criterion Collection recently joined Tumblr with posts of excellent photographs from some of the greatest movies (or making of). I wish they combined forces with http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/ - divya

"Can you post your question to stackoverflow and tag it with html5boilerplate ? http://stackoverflow.com/tags/..." - divya

"The browser is a better place for [accessibility] customisation to happen". I cannot more heartily agree on this. The impetus on providing an accessible web should be on the browsers not on the web developers or even users. - divya

I keep forgetting the navigation shortcuts: { — Move to start of previous paragraph or code block. } — Move to end of next paragraph or code block. Ctrl+F — Move forward one screenful. Ctrl+B — Move backward one screenful. Some other awesome tips in there for new vim users :) - divya

"We recommend you dont try to create pixel perfection. More details are on http://html5please.us" - divya

"Yes, it won't, you can use IE conditional classes to provide styles for them specifically." - divya

"No, it is not.  See http://css-tricks.com/rethinki..." - divya

"We link straight from github and it links to the SHA of the commits the tags are part of." - divya

If you love using unicode characters as icons, graphemica is your go-to source. /via @mathias on twitter. - divya

"Please check the build script page: http://html5boilerplate.com/do... Also note that css needs to be @imported before it can be compressed." - divya

This post talks about something I miss in web design - shabbiness - wanting to adopt something as your own, connect with an application, and don't want to give up - the application and you spending time learning about each other, delighting one another, and growing old together. We like pets because they grow old with us and die - not because they remain cute, shiny and unlearning. I still have my 'pencil box' from 8th grade. It is very used, very shabby and full of pencil/ink marks. Compass needle scratches all over. I do look at it, and I know it left an imprint on me like I did (literally) on it. What apps do that to you (emacs/vim/textmate users don't answer)? - divya

I have railed against 24ways's Composing the New Canon http://24ways.org/2011... which (I still assert) has several incomprehensible statements that try very hard to associate type setting with music. But, this page - published in 2009 - makes a case and how. The article goes back to the Robert Bringhurst's advice to compose to a _scale_ which could just be _any_ scale and what more, offers tools to adjust the text to some preset scales (pity about Opera support though :( ). Do read his other posts on typography which are dated but still relevant: http://lamb.cc/blog... and http://lamb.cc/blog... I wonder why Iain Lamb does not blog any more :( - divya

This is a great overview of why XML was created and how it meandered from the path it was meant to take and where it is going now. I have been one of the XML haters and quite boggled by why anyone would use XML as a data format. But this outlines how XML is primarily a document publication format which is vastly different from the use cases webapps attempt to solve. If you require chapters of prose, table of contents, and pages, XML(& friends) is the right way to go. OTOH if you want to create applications that you want your users to interact with, in a form that is different from reading a book, you would want to consider other media. / via http://twitter.com/liza - divya

Aww look at Ubuntu all grown up! I remember installing it when it was just released. But, good to see this focus on design. Minor quibble, the modal windows have a close button on the bottom and a similar-ish 'full-screen' button on the top which is extremely confusing. No application has a close button at the bottom, Even Lion has both of them at the top edges (though reverse-ordered). - divya

An interesting snippet of history. - divya

I am convinced components is in our future (well we even have a Component Model Spec: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg...). The point that a lot of people miss is outlined in this mailing list post, which is: logic also changes structure. This is why we cant keep our style/markup/script in separate clean separations. Enyo ( http://enyojs.com/ ) is trying to provide a vision for components, but I am ambivalent about its approach. This is definitely a hard problem and clean solutions are not in sight :( - divya

"Just to note there is an Opera Labs build that also contains an implementation of getUserMedia:  http://snapshot.opera.com/labs... There was an older one that worked on Opera Mobile as well: http://dev.opera.com/articles/... (but does not use the latest APIs)." - divya

Deliciously retro icon web fonts for a modest voluntary fee. - divya

Note to self as a picture metaphor for the absurd. - divya

This is just beautiful. - divya

If you love modern art you will love this. Guggenheim has digitized their catalog archive (some dating from the early 30s). Pity about the flash and atrocious navigation though. Several focus on the works of the amazing Kandinsky. - divya

"It is defined here: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rf..." - divya

Everything great except the hard wrapping of paragraphs for your starting .vimrc file. - divya

Pardon the flush of Vim links. But these are well worth a look. - divya

A great presentation on navigating effectively with Vim (and a link to handy cheatsheet). With this, all Vim links come to an end :) - divya

I am learning Vim now and mostly migrated to MacVim for my daily coding. vimtutor was very helpful and the second biggest help was this page. Thanks @erichynds! - divya

This is the best post to date on how CSS parsing/rendering impacts performance. It is not really that important for most webpages but if you have an app like quora.com you better know how this works! - divya

"Nice! Aside: the dates are showing up as '100 years ago' for some reason :/" - divya