Frederick has been interested in web development and specifically, CSS, accessibility, search engine optimization and web site optimization since he first discovered the web in the late 90's.
He's been published on sites like adobe.com where he talked about the power of CSS and really has a passion for clean semantic markup.
Frederick is also founder of W3 EDGE a new media oriented web development firm based in Boston, MA. A frequent guest blogger on blogs around the web on a variety of topics and currently spends most of his time as the CTO of Mashable.com, a technorati top 5 blog.
Frederick Townes
http://www.w3-edge.com/
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PIECES WRITTEN BY Frederick Townes:
Updated Working Draft Comments Date Is CSS 3 over-baked? 18 comments August 20th, 2009
A Marriage Made in Heaven? HTML 5 & CSS 3 76 comments July 8th, 2009
CSS3 Rekindled 16 comments June 17th, 2009
Want more out of CSS 3? 37 comments January 21st, 2009
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COMMENTS WRITTEN BY Frederick Townes:
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@Ollie, a very valid point and yes things can be quite ugly. But the question still remains. Does the new standard bring so much to the table that the use of libraries makes it worth while to continue to move forward with more progressive coding without having to mitigate multiple user experiences for various user agents? I have to imagine there are many cases where yes, yes it does. Posted to " Is CSS 3 over-baked? " by Frederick Townes August 21st, 2009 -
@CyberSkull: border-colors have been covered here before: http://www.css3.info/preview/colored-border/ @Ollie: All of the CSS tricks mentioned have been discussed/documented on CSS3 already. The purpose of the post was to show practical applications and compare/contrast the power of a more robust CSS 3 vs what JavaScript may or may not add. @fallenBoy: I agree. It's a valid point. In the end however, the site owner can always choose to show a special message to users with old browsers encouraging them to upgrade, so I sometimes like JS library solutions that allow me to keep moving forward without having to wait for everyone to upgrade. Posted to " Is CSS 3 over-baked? " by Frederick Townes August 21st, 2009
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@Neal G do you have any posts etc you can share with the community that will help clarify? That is what this site is all about! :) Posted to " A Marriage Made in Heaven? HTML 5 & CSS 3 " by Frederick Townes July 8th, 2009
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@Josh B that's a great point. I definitely enjoy being able to accomplish interface effects and treatments with pure markup and CSS as opposed to relying on JS whether it's crisp and minified or not. Posted to " CSS3 Rekindled " by Frederick Townes June 18th, 2009
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@David, done! Thanks and you're welcome! Posted to " A Marriage Made in Heaven? HTML 5 & CSS 3 " by Frederick Townes July 8th, 2009
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@Ollie, exactly! Posted to " Is CSS 3 over-baked? " by Frederick Townes August 21st, 2009
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@WR, no I meant marriage. Matches are situational and conditional, marriage means forever. No other suitors, no better combinations possible. Posted to " A Marriage Made in Heaven? HTML 5 & CSS 3 " by Frederick Townes July 8th, 2009
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There you go. AFAICS, the juice has to be worth the squeeze and there are numerous uses for things like this (your case reminds me of sifr for example), that make it worth it. And the debate continues. :) Posted to " Is CSS 3 over-baked? " by Frederick Townes August 26th, 2009
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@Josh B, I agree. Focus is not a bad thing, the problem is exactly what you point out - confusion and misunderstanding. Just as significant the real reasons as to why some of these decisions are made is often an enigma as well. By now the web community is so diverse that some projects should not have to be abandoned in order to realize others. Posted to " A Marriage Made in Heaven? HTML 5 & CSS 3 " by Frederick Townes July 12th, 2009
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