Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities. Mike Davidson Read Quote
If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools. Mike Davidson Read Quote
If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I’d do it, but it really means very little to me. We’re mavericks over here, what can we say? Mike Davidson Read Quote
I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board. Mike Davidson Read Quote
For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It’s not like we’re denying them hospital care. Mike Davidson Read Quote
We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet. Mike Davidson Read Quote
We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns. Mike Davidson Read Quote
For most of the ’90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser. Mike Davidson Read Quote
I don’t start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate. Mike Davidson Read Quote
It’s all about people. It’s about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you. Mike Davidson Read Quote
