Web standards promised that we could develop once, deploy everywhere. I can’t help but wonder about that premise after reading @bradfrost’s post, Device Fatigue.

I believe in web standards. I have spent a good part of my last decade working to write standards-based code that validates.

But if we have to test sites on hundreds of devices, it’s hard to argue that web apps are better than native apps because they just need to be developed once to be available everywhere.

There has been a lot of discussion about whether designers should code lately. Again.

Here’s my take.

One definition of design is solving problems in a visual way.

Some of the problems involved in web design include:

I have been a big advocate for web standards since I first read Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards, well, let’s just say a while ago.