NPR shares our frustration.

And I quote, since I live in LA, “West-coast residents have been particularly incensed that they wait an additional three hours after the East coast gets whatever “live” coverage there actually is in prime time, even though they are in the time zone where the Olympics actually are. What this means is that even if NBC is showing “live” coverage of its big events in New York, which is across the continent from Vancouver, it delays them three hours for Seattle, which is less than three hours south of Vancouver.”

UGH, Not that I wanted to watch curling, but trying to find the USA/CANADA hockey game, if I actually knew it was on, and when it might be “aired”, and on “what channel”. What a mess.

Read more here:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/02/nbcs_olympic_coverage_manages.html

http://www.paulcarvill.com/2009/09/why-front-end-developers-are-so-important-to-the-future-of-businesses-on-the-web/

While the standard isn’t yet finished, Apple is already using HTML 5 as an important component in the company’s strategies, ranging from the iPod touch and iPhone’s mobile browser to Safari on the Mac and PC, from Dashboard widgets to new iTunes LP content, and from MobileMe apps to the latest iTunes Store.

Why HTML 5

I have to say that I agree with Ron. He goes on to say, “One of the problems with criticising CSS is that it’s very hard to write good CSS, so pointing out problems with CSS begs the question of whether this is an indictment of CSS or one’s coding ability. The problem is particularly pernicious for layout. (One indication of this is how many CSS layout tutorials there are on the web.)”

Check out this great example/rant here

http://www.socialsnippets.com/snippets/how-to-style-an-application-like-facebook.aspx

“…explore how we can style our Facebook application to look and feel like an extension of the Facebook platform. We will examine colors, fonts, dimensions and a few common design patterns utlized by the Facebook platform in our quest to fit in with the crowd. ”

Remember to break it so it retains it power.

Here is a preachy little quote from the site,

“The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee.
It permits a number of possible uses and each
designer can look for a solution appropriate to his
personal style. But one must learn how to use the
grid; it is an art that requires practice. ” - Josef Müller-Brockmann

Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 7 categories.

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

Malo is ultra small css library for building web sites. It is meant to be structural base for small or medium web sites.Malo derives from it’s bigger brother Emastic CSS Framework.

Why should you use Malo?

Because it’s:

Ultra small (compressed is 0,25 kb or 8 lines of CSS! )
Personalized width of the page in (%, px, em)
Super flexible.
Easy to use.
How Malo works?
Malo is based on the principle that every column can be divided into two, three, four and five parts.

The YUI team is pleased to announce YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1. This preview is an early look at what we’re working on for the next generation of YUI Library. Pleasereview the API, play with the examples, and read the documentation on this site for details; download YUI 3.0 PR1 on the YUI project area on SourceForge; you can find us with questions or comments on the YUI 3.x discussion group.

This YUI 3.x is part of the broader YUI Library project, which is a coherent collection of JavaScript and CSS resources that make it easier to build richly interactive applications in web browsers. They have been released as open source under aBSD license and are free for all uses.