No December Pulse as I took a long break from all things web over the holiday season so this post will double-up the two months worth of links I saved to del.icio.us.

1. December’s links
2. January’s links

I only saved 23 links during December but considering the holiday, not a bad effort with many interesting articles coming out of the excellent 24 Ways website.

The designer in me is winning the war over my developer side (the analyst part of analyst-programmer) so despite a couple of links to PHP frameworks, specifically symfony and CodeIgniter (and indeed a separate post for the former) the rest of my links are largely concerned with design principles from the excellent Design Meltdown blog.

January. Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll know what <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> means. If the news has evaded you go read “Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8” by Aaron Gustafson. A lot of people got their knickers in a twist and Digital Web Magazine collated a lengthy list of blog post reactions. My thoughts? Whatever. No really. Just like HTML 5 it will happen regardless of what I think, so why get upset? My battle lies with getting my employer to understand the need for a web development process before arriving at the visual design right now—more on that in future posts. With 46 links saved in January, I am rapidly approaching my 1000th link—I wonder who’ll get that notable?

Technorati Tags: 24ways, design-principles, html5, ie8, php-framework

Mike Cherim created the Accessible Web Designers group on Facebook a few days back and it’s really taken off with 95 members so far—with more than a few “celebrities” in its ranks. Borrowing the name from Mike’s top-ten group on Ma.gnolia treat this as a cordial invitation to join and further spread the word. Oh, Mike made me an admin so enjoy responsibly