"With Web design, though, coding is taken for granted, and WYSIWYG apps have come and gone many times. But why is it, in 2011, we don’t have an InDesign-quality visual design tool for the Web?"
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John Nack on Adobe : Adobe Muse enables great Web layout, no coding required - Let me venture a hopefully brief answer. Because the ultimate goal of print design is to make something that you will hold in your hands. The code that makes the finished product possible doesn’t matter. With web design, it is exactly the opposite. The code has to be readable so people can change it, and it needs to be semantic so computers can understand it. It is precisely these two requirements that WYSIWYG editors fail consistently.
I agree with John that, hey, it’s 2011, why isn’t there a good WYSIWYG editor? But after so many years of trying WYSIWYG editors and being disappointed, I’m inclined to think they’re one of those ideas that never cease to excite in theory and fail in practice.
If Muse can generate clean, semantic code, dare I say, it’ll be a miracle.
"What a delightful holiday treat! Today, four more Adobe typefaces have been added to Typekit’s library: Carol Twombly’s Adobe Caslon Pro, and Robert Slimbach’s Adobe Jenson Pro, Arno Pro, and Warnock Pro are traditionally-inspired, serifed designs that have each been updated to work well on the web."
— More classic Adobe fonts on Typekit « The Typekit Blog: Effective immediately, I have switched the text here from the wonderful Adobe Text Pro to the amazing Arno Pro. Subtle differences, but I love the handcut feel of Arno.
"Jason Garrett-Glaser, currently lead developer of x264, on the state of Internet video. Thoughtful, detailed, insightful analysis."
— Daring Fireball Linked List: Flash, Google, VP8, and the Future of Internet Video - I’d venture to add “thorough” to the list of adjectives for Jason’s piece.
"Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world’s largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec — VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash)."
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Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation - If Google heeds this letter’s advice, the web would change for the better overnight.
Update 7/17/10: They did.
