A biography for Jeffrey Zeldmanhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace.”
“For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.”
“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.”
“My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.”
“The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.”
“CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Amazon doesn't want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won't let Amazon sell products in its apps.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“I spent all day in front of a digital screen, but I'm about to curl up with a book.”
“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.”
“I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do.”