"Fountain is a plain text markup language for screenwriting." More plaintext formats for writing in. This is good.

"Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more." Really nice - straightforward, elegant, and a good starting point for the scratchy websites I tend to end up making.

Not a bad list, especially for sites needing hardcore, tight, front-end work, and that are going to face load.

"How does it work? Just put your image size after our URL and you'll get a placeholder." Nifty!

Lovely, lovely article explaining just how the PeepCode Blog works. The blog itself features unique layouts for every post. There's no CMS, no database, but what's going on under the hood is at least as clever - and the flexibility makes the beautiful and clear pages much easier to build.

"All yeahs in a baby are always the same height." Crazy markup preprocessor of the day, with suitably entertaining documentation.

Which is the sensible way to do things, and this feels about right.

"The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle multiple interactions with one basic design. The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior." Dark, dark voodoo, but very impressive - and excellently explained by Doug Bowman. It's nice to see Doug blogging again.

"This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a start. In each of these you’ll find other resources to help you dig deeper." Which, right now, is what I need. For a former front-end-dev, I'm a bit behind the curve.

"To the extent that the web is becoming truly ubiquitous, and involves increasingly multimodal paradigms of interaction, it seems appropriate to define a Web standard for representing emotion-related states, which can provide the required functionality." No, it does not seem appropriate. It seems bonkers.

"This javascript function can then read in the current content of the text area, format it using a trimmed down version of textile, and then set the content of a DIV with the resulting HTML. The end result of all this is live comment preview, with textile formatting." Live textile preview functionality.

"All the _around_ stuff, never the _it_ stuff." Which is an interesting way of putting it.

"WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD to any textarea with one line of code." Very impressive; very coherent. Worth further investigation.

"markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented."

"Here's Román Cortés' Homer, animated to show the structure." Click the animate buttons, and be amazed. It's all just text and CSS.

"tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell."

ies4osx rns lots of versions of IE under Wine on OSX. Looks nifty.

Some comprehensive notes on this. I always run into the IE5/6 issues described here when I end up relying on multiple-class selectors.

"If there’s a single piece of functionality that you feel you can’t provide in raw HTML, you’re doing it wrong." Yes. Steve is, by and large, right about all of this. This is why front-end development is worthy of being a role in its own right.

Westciv's XRAY now works in IE6. Which all of a sudden makes it super-useful.

Impressive (if fixed-width) grid-based CSS framework. Looks natty; I should check it out, I feel.

"MileMarker adds a helper for marking page elements with the milestone they are slated to be developed, and makes them unable to be interacted with." The JS-y approach isn't quite how I'd do it, but it's a neat idea.

Modular form componentry; at a first glance, it looks good, but I want to go over it in a bit more detail...

"From now on, we will now be promoting POSH as a first order priority, alongside the development and improvement of existing microformats"

"You’re considering retrofitting an existing website/web app to be more accessible to mobile users. What are your options?"

Hmn. Some good ones in here - a fair few nasty hacks with Javascript and poor markup liberally smattered around, though. Caveator factor.

Oh god. This is such a terrible, terrible idea.

Wow. This totally comes in at my level of competence, and works pretty much how I'd want it to. Time to futz around with some prototypes...

"I am an information architect because I care about the structure of information and building things from that structure"

I didn't get to see Jeremy talk, which I feel bad for; he clashed with Julian and Nicolas' blogjects session. Fortunately, his prose is online, and a most enjoyable read

Beautiful; graphing the tag structure of individual web pages. Must look into this further.

Background images for elements in lists disappear. The solution: make the list relatively positioned. Moronic, but true.

In short: it sucks