Even if it’s not always the best markup, what are Facebook and Twitter? They’re web standards with some scripts. They may not validate, but they’re still CSS layouts and simple markup, and that’s great! – Jeffrey Zeldman
I spent all day in front of a digital screen, but I’m about to curl up with a book. – Jeffrey Zeldman
Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don’t even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends. – Jeffrey Zeldman
Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them. – Jeffrey Zeldman
I’d like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I’d like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can’t. – Jeffrey Zeldman
We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone. – Jeffrey Zeldman
A good designer has technical knowledge – don’t treat her like someone who’s there to decide whether something should be pink or orange. – Jeffrey Zeldman
The web’s strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world’s first universal platform. – Jeffrey Zeldman
To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we’re mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads. – Jeffrey Zeldman
I know and have worked alongside some of the designers, developers, and editors at Vox Media; you’d be proud to work with any of them. – Jeffrey Zeldman
I like files. I like editing a CSS file without necessarily having to edit an HTML file. I like fixing a problem by replacing a corrupted file with a clean one. Maybe I’m set in my ways, but I don’t consider it a hardship to open a folder or replace a file. – Jeffrey Zeldman
The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection. – Jeffrey Zeldman
I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn’t work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that’s something. – Jeffrey Zeldman
When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio’s media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads. – Jeffrey Zeldman
Validation is easy – you run your site through a validator, and it’s either valid or it isn’t. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn’t so easy and is subject to interpretation. – Jeffrey Zeldman
Dropbox, with its emphasis on good old-fashioned hierarchies, is superb at automatically saving one original of each photo I take, whether shot with a phone or a fancy camera. No loops, no duplicates, no confusion. – Jeffrey Zeldman
Advertisers don’t want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and other large networks are really selling. The ads are almost a by-product; what companies really want to know is what antiperspirant a woman of 25-34 is most likely to purchase after watching ‘House of Cards.’ – Jeffrey Zeldman
The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don’t require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do… or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete. – Jeffrey Zeldman
Many thought it was a fool’s errand – that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, ‘Users don’t care if you use Web standards.’ Well, of course they don’t. They just know that your site works better. – Jeffrey Zeldman
Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content. – Jeffrey Zeldman
Amazon doesn’t want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won’t let Amazon sell products in its apps. – Jeffrey Zeldman
My first typewriter cost me $75. I can’t tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that’s all right. – Jeffrey Zeldman
There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment. – Jeffrey Zeldman
I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship. – Jeffrey Zeldman
