When I see Facebook, I feel like Howlin' Wolf must have felt when he first heard Elvis. 'They finally taught a white boy to do this.' Jeffrey Zeldman More Quotes by Jeffrey Zeldman More Quotes From Jeffrey Zeldman At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design. Jeffrey Zeldman late design writing people There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment. Jeffrey Zeldman frame without filmmaking agreement 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 better you fool care 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 will digital creation long I spent all day in front of a digital screen, but I'm about to curl up with a book. Jeffrey Zeldman about day digital book 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 give apple media want 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 woman know drunk house 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 everyone new everything support The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection. Jeffrey Zeldman campaign first place core 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 content go passion tears 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 you media proud work 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 need details experience challenges 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 okay management way thinking 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 camera phone good confusion 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 without like problem editing 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 pink treat good knowledge I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do. Jeffrey Zeldman against work love people 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 best great always simple 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 me you proud money On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school. Jeffrey Zeldman high touch high-school school
