W3C HTML5 Logo: Your Web, Your Logo

It stands strong and true, resilient and universal as the markup you write. It shines as bright and as bold as the forward-thinking, dedicated web developers you are. It’s the standard’s standard, a pennant for progress. And it certainly doesn’t use tables for layout. We present an HTML5 logo.

Or as Zeldman so eloquently puts it:

http://twitter.com/#!/zeldman/status/27374450236194816

WebKit and CSS3 Gradients

Over the past several months, the CSS Working Group has had extended discussions about making the gradient syntax easier to use, and recently Tab Atkins included a proposal in the latest draft of the Image Values and Replaced Content module. WebKit and Mozilla have now implemented this proposal so that web authors can experiment with it, and provide feedback to the Working Group.

Read more on Surfin’ Safari: CSS3 Gradients.

2011 Facebook Hacker Cup


Check out Facebook’s worldwide coding competition:

The 2011 Facebook Hacker Cup is the first annual Facebook programming contest where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup. […] Many will enter, but only one will claim title as champion and take home the $5,000 USD cash prize and be immortalized on the Hacker Cup.

Registration opens on December 20th 2010.

On a side note, I love that poster design. :)

Clever In-Source Marketing

This is what you will find if you view the source of The Oatmeal. Links to http://pterodactyl.me.

We’re no strangers to such hidden gems ourselves, at Automattic. I won’t say more so you can find them yourself, but if you know where to look, we have our own sprinkled throughout our product line. Not truly advertising per-se, but in the same spirit. Hint: a tad deeper than just HTML source. :)