A JavaScript, CSS, XHTML web log focusing on usability and accessibility by Dustin Diaz
Get your trousers loose for the second annual CSS Naked Day happening April 5th, 2007. Sign ups begin now can be taken at the bottom of the naked day website (NOT HERE).
Promoting Web Standards, layered semantic markup, separating behavior from presentation, and good ‘ol geeky fun, let’s make this year another success.
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March 31st, 2007 at 11:52 pm
I cant signup successfully from the Naked site. But I’m participating the event. Please register my site. Thanks.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:17 am
I’m ready for the fun too!
April 1st, 2007 at 9:24 am
What is your estimate on the number of websites going nude this year? My guess is a 50% increase from last year, around 1100 total!
April 1st, 2007 at 9:49 am
@mr nice: Interesting that you had problems signing up. I went submitted your site for you, but it wasn’t a problem for the 99 people before you (congrats you were 100).
@Christy: Excellent. Getting naked is always fun :)
@bza: Last year topped off at 763 official participants, but I think there were roughly a hundred that were “unaccounted” for. Which also the main reason I decided to automate the process this year, and batch out a new list every hour. It should go quite well I hope :)
April 1st, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Semi-related, but noticed the new logo. Sort of an antivirus shield logo; The “DED|Shield” perhaps… guarding against cruft?
April 1st, 2007 at 3:41 pm
RE: Logo. Oh… I get it now :)
As for Naked Day… I’m looking forward to this year’s stats report on “Cameron Diaz naked” search queries, especially in light of your new naked day URL. :)
April 1st, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I had a bit of poor timing reading my feeds last year and missed the event, should be good fun! :o)
PS Nice work on the DED|Chain project :o)
April 1st, 2007 at 5:06 pm
I think I’ve seen somebody else using a similar logo; you might want to get the lawsuits ready. Try looking through flickr to find people you can sue.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:53 pm
[…] Don’t forget about CSS naked day - it’s coming soon! You can read up more about it on Dustin Diaz’s web site. […]
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:28 am
How about changing all to display:none;
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:30 am
HA! Stupid Websense is blocking the ‘naked’ subdomain as “Adult Content.”
April 3rd, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Hello:-)
Great news I see - Naked Day is going Second Edition (right?) : )))
I’m in, I have a blog and I already signed up. I also installed the plugin you recommend:) Now waiting impatiently for the event and meanwhile maybe will write a couple of words as well:)
Cheers, Michel
PS Let’s break that 2000 site barrier, let’s do it! :)
April 4th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Nice idea - my blog will be in the buff tomorrow.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:00 am
I’m already naked! :P
April 4th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Naked already Dustin? You’re way to eager to drop the drawers…
April 4th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Oh wait…I’m naked too. I guess it’s April 5th Somewhere! I’m glad I automated that last year.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:15 am
FYI: Don’t type your phone number in the box! The comments won’t get thru! hahaha. Those are usually hidden with CSS :)
@Jason, yeah, April 5th is 48 hours long :\
April 4th, 2007 at 9:30 am
I started to freak out when I visited my site today before I remembered naked day.
Looks like that code I added a year ago worked.
April 4th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Funny thing happened today, let me tell you about it.
My phone rings, a senior colleague is calling me to tell me he had a little “accident” with my site today and that it “doesn’t work”. I started to explain what it’s all about, and then he tells me that he had given the address of my site to a big clients marketing team and proposed me to as a designer for their new project. When they went to check out my site and saw a “naked” page - they flipped and accused him of screwing with them, they were like: “We don’t get the joke man.”, hahaha. Then he had to explain it all to them, but eventually everything turned out OK (I hope, cross your fingers for me). :)
April 4th, 2007 at 11:21 am
@Mike: That’s good stuff. Pretty funny story.
@Dragan: Now that was unexpected. haha. That’s one you won’t forget for a long time. Good story man.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Naked all the way.
Glad to see this has been repeated this year. Great stuffs.
April 4th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
All naked since midnight EET (East European Time, or GMT + 2 hours).
Glad that it’s becoming a traditional CSS Naked Day:)
Pity, though, that the WP plugin ( http://guff.szub.net/2006/04/03/css-naked-day/ ) recommended here didn’t work - had to disable CSS styles manually:(
I checked times in the blog, GMT, everything… nope.
Anyway… The point is, my blog is naked now, and that’s a great thing :)
Viva semantic xhtml! :)))
April 4th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
PS BTW, strange - it says I posted my previous comment at 3:25 pm, on April 4th? And here is April 5th already, time is 1:25 am? That’s a reaaaaly big time difference! Hmmmm…….
April 4th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
I am begining to love this naked thing far too much, the interenet has never felt so snappy! Of course, lots of us still have our javascript underpants on, and maybe that is something we can experiment with shedding in the near future? ;)
April 4th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Nice one. I’m buff too.
April 4th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
[…] Повече информация: две думи в блога на Dustin Diaz, на webstandards.org, и, разбира се, на уебстраницата на тазгодишните участници :) Списъкът със записали се в момента за Naked Day ‘2007 е над 900 и расте (ето още линкове и от technorati). […]
April 4th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
[…] More information: two words by Dustin at his blog, at webstandards.org, and, of course, at the official webpage of the participants :) The list of participating websites is over 900 and growing (see also technorati). […]
April 5th, 2007 at 4:17 am
@Nick, i was just gonna say that. Isn’t turning off JS and proving the site works without it equally important? Perhaps a “Pure HTML Day” would be something to consider?
Anyway, im using the is_naked_day()-function so i’ve been naked for almost 24 hours now… feels great! =)
April 5th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Andreas: what about a plain text day, lol. :D
The only problem I am starting to have with all these naked sites is, it is easy to forget which site you are reading as they all look, somewhat, identical.
I bet people who rely on screenreaders must get that *all* the time and it’s a point that has me thinking, surely recognisability is at least a small part of accessibility. humm.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:41 am
Haha, that’s true. But i love the beauty of an un-styled, well-structured HTML document.
Btw, how well does the Phone Number-spam protection work? And do you only use CSS to hide it?
I tried the same on my site and got 20 spams a day =/ (Tried using both CSS and JS to hide it, but with the same results).
April 5th, 2007 at 8:26 am
The phone number generally works because only spammers are the ones that actually fill it out, and not real people (at least I hope none of you are filling that out).
The idea of a plain JS day or just vanilla HTML day goes beyond some of the original intentions. I think the one day a year repetition is already pretty good and taking it any further would cause more damage that it should.
I think most people are content with just stripping CSS :) - so for now it’s best to keep it that way.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Great Event to be in!!
I cannot register because my Company blocks the
naked.dustindiaz.com under “$3X” category.. :)
It would be great if such events are held in India as well?
April 6th, 2007 at 5:40 am
From my inbox:
My reply:
April 6th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Did I miss you removing your css, dustin?
If I would’ve remembered I would of participated.
But I went COMPLETELY stupid.
Oh well, Great Fun Dustin,
Matt
April 7th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Awww, I really wanted to participate this year but I didn’t get my website up and running in time (er… it’s not up even now… :-C)… It was sort of a goal to have it up so I could be in this too… oh well, next year it WILL be up and I WILL participate since this is such a good idea. :-) It’s really fun to see that so many (twice the amount last year) participated (albeit not as long as 48 hours)!!! Even some from Sweden! :-P Well, next year I will be ready too… ^^
April 15th, 2007 at 10:22 am
what could be better than the content of a page to make the people think
what they do?
http://mykenta.blogspot.com/2007/04/8-july-contentless-day.html
you can in this way make people think about the important! of your content
or in the same time show the powerfullness of the javascript!!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:30 am
I was hoping a chance to see Dustin Diaz naked. ;)
April 28th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Ahh, well, I am not sure about Dustin, but I’d suggest to you to bookmark these two websites:
http://www.optimiced.com
and
http://www.molif.com
…as (as far as I know), these two bloggers/designers/artists will go naked on CSS Naked Day 2008! :-)
April 1st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I will be participating in 2008! Anyone else on board?