Jun30
This has been a long time coming, but finally WebKit is listening to feedback and implementing CSS variables. If you’re a designer, you know the frustration of pasting #666666 all over your document for the same thing. Using CSS variables, you would be able do define this color once and then just use the variable name everywhere else.
More information: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0230.html
This is huge for the web design community!
Jun18
Are you serious??? It can’t be. Oh wait, you must not be a serious designer. You do work from your bedroom, right? Let me guess, you use Windows, too…
I’ve heard them all. For many reasons, most are valid, tables have been stricken with the scarlet letter when they are used for layout within a web page. For the most part I would agree that designers need to move past tables and focus more making our layouts portable to other platforms (pronounced iPhone). Tables are terrible for this, as they do not allow us to move content around with different stylesheets and they do not semantically describe their content.
But, but, but, sometimes CSS layouts make for a more crowded content markup (less semantic) and simply just don’t get the job done, cross browser.
A recent article by Olav Junker Kjær illustrates a few of the more difficult table traits to emulate with CSS. If you’re a designer, this is a good post to read, even if you would never be one of those designers that used a *gasp* table.
By the way, I do use a Mac, but I run Vista on it, by choice. And, I use tables when appropriate. If you get me a scarlet letter t-shirt, make it a size large. 
Jun11
Designers and developers now have a standard platform for which to develop mobile applications. They can develop one “flavor” of their application for the iPhone and reach more users than on any other single platform.
The various other operating systems, screen resolutions, browsers, and OS capabilities make it impractical for one application to be deployed out into the wild without a different version for each platform, until now.
There will be many applications that will only be compatible with the iPhone.
May13
After days and months of waiting on the MeasureIt FireFox plugin to be updated for FireFox 3 Beta 5, today is the day. Well, at least it’s the day I found out it was updated. I can officially leave FF 2.x in the dust now. This one of the most useful plugins available for web designers. I felt design-impaired without it.
Also, the release candidate for FF 3 on the horizon.
