The web’s governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website’s code against multiple web standards at the same time.
You can find the new Unicorn “all-in-one validator” on the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) website at validator.w3.org/unicorn/.
The W3C maintains a number of free web-based tools for checking whether your web code is valid, and Unicorn makes several of these tools available under a single interface. Just plug in a URL and you can see your results for all of these tests on a single page:
HTML/XHTML markup validator
CSS validator
Atom or RSS feed validator
mobileOK, which tells you how friendly your site is to mobile visitors
This drove me a bit crazy and wanted to provide the solution in case anyone else experiences the same thing – black boxes displaying behind flash elements in Safari, after installing Adobe Creative Suite 5.
Problem: After installing the CS5 Production Suite, I noticed that everywhere there was flash in Safari 5.0, some parts of it would have solid black displaying behind various elements.
Solution: After research and trial and error, determined that this wasn’t a Safari problem, but a bug in the version of Adobe’s Flash Player that installs from the CS5 Suite. The problem is solved easily by downloading the latest update that fixes this and other bugs with version 10.1. Here’s the link to the latest update download , simply install the update and the black displaying behind flash elements will be corrected.
Love it, whether this symbol should or shouldn’t have been acquired is not the most important part of this conversation for me. I just love the conversation itself and the beauty of rediscovering the art, importance and level of communication that occurs with everyday symbols that are taken for granted in their daily use. Thank you to Paola Antonelli, keep up the great work!
MoMA acquires a typographic symbol—but what does it mean?
The morning of Monday, March 22, Paola Antonelli published a post on the Museum of Modern Art’s blog about a new acquisition to the museum’s design department. Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the museum, then alerted one reporter and 43 other bloggers to the news and headed to the airport to catch a plane to San Francisco.
“By the time I landed, it was like a volcano eruption,” says Antonelli. Commentators were in a lather on account of the unusual nature of the acquisition: the @ symbol, the tiny “pig’s tail” that resides above the number two on the QWERTY keyboard. The acquisition cost nothing, was freely available to everyone, and didn’t add anything material to the museum’s collection. Inserting @ into MoMA’s collection, Antonelli wrote, “relies on the assumption that physical possession of an object as a requirement for an acquisition is no longer necessary, and therefore it sets curators free to tag the world.”
Well, I’m inspired by this ingenious use of recylcing and design!
A Malibu, Calif. resident with a lust for aviation and creative upcycling enlists an architect to transform a retired Boeing 747 jumbo jet into a hilltop dream home.
When the concept behind Wing House, a luxury home in Malibu built from the remnants of a retired Boeing 747 jumbo jet, surfaced a few years back most folks who got wind of the audacious project had a standard “yeah, right, I’d like to see that happen” type of reaction. Well, what do you know … Wing House is happening with construction underway and set to be completed by the end of this year.
Francie Rehwald, the eco-minded co-owner of a Mercedes Benz dealership, enlisted architect David Hertz to build her a dream home in the hills of Malibu with a “curvilinear/feminine” shape.” Turns out, the best way to achieve that ladylike shape was with a roof made from an airplane wing. But Hertz didn’t stop there … he incorporated almost all of the 4.5 million parts from an old 747 into the main residence and auxiliary structures. The diverted-from-landfill airplane scraps cost in the ballpark $35,000. The total cost to build the home will be much more although I’m guessing nowhere near as much as the cost for a new 747: $200 million.
The most impressive animated gifs, ever! I am so inspired to do more with less. I might have to think twice before complaining about not having enough resources to get the job done and done creatively.
I AM NOT AN ARTIST - AN ANIMATED GIF PARANOIA ABOUT NONSTOP DESIGN WORKERS
First off, the inevitable disclaimer: I’m a Flash guy, not really an HTML5 guy. But I’m also an Apple guy - I’ve owned 8 Macs, 2 iPhones, and 0 PCs over the last 20 years. I’m naturally receptive to Steve’s ideas, so maybe this HTML5 stuff does make sense. Or does it?
I don’t mean to come late to or prolong the argument. Rather, I actually wanted to dig a little deeper into the HTML5 vs. Flash debate and offer a fair rebuttal to the most fanatical of claims.
Let’s get to it…
Myth 1: the video tag will replace Flash video
I’m getting this out of the way first because it’s been done to death. Yes, it’s possible to play video without Flash by using HTML5 video. But it has caveats depending on the browser and the codec. This myth also wants us to overlook that we’ve been able to play video in HTML4 for over a decade using Quicktime, Windows Media, DIVX, RealPlayer, and dozens of other formats.
There is no doubt that the most intriguing new HTML5 tag is the canvas tag. Despite all controversial web discussions concerning this element it is obvious that canvas symbolizes the “semantic” web concept. Its aim is to simplify the process of rendering the 2D shapes and bitmap images. You may have seen a few “canvas” demos that already became viral on the web. As the result many developers and web designers have noticed that using the canvas tag is really effective and it saves much time.
Recent big news from the Google I/O conference showed us that the main market players admit HTML5 as a main perspective for the further development. Actually we hope that it will disctact us from all these media wars and that the social media world will expand a more useful information about new and interesting achievements of HTML5.
The Portable Interactive Display doesn’t have a catchy name but the student concept does provide a solution to architects and others involved in building design. The concept provides a way for professionals to take all their (digital) building plans and discuss them anywhere.
source: OpenForum | Article by Guy Kawasaki | July 7, 2010 | bit.ly/dx94cB
I found a treasure chest in the back of a great book called Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations by Garr Reynolds. It is a list of ten Japanese aesthetic principles.
I love this kind of stuff: not only can these principles improve your PowerPoint pitches, products, website, and outlook on life, but they make people think you’re smart when you mention them. Here they are:
1. Kanso: eliminating clutter and expressing things in plain and simple ways. Application: change your mediocre PowerPoint pitch by reducing the amount of text and only covering the key points.
Liking this site –> www.drwr.it, it provides no nonsense design inspiration by just displaying design and illustration images submitted by registered members. Good concept and fantastic and diverse imagery, definately inspiring!
For a better description, here is their site’s about paragraph …
what the blazes?
let’s face it, there is just too much great work sprinkled around the web to keep track of it all. if we aren’t spending 8 hours of our day looking for great work to inspire us then we are spending another 8 hours trying to keep it all organized. drwr.it is a community where everyone finds and bookmarks the graphic design and illustrations that they like and share it with the community.
if you are looking for a community around graphic design and illustration then check out drwr.it.
