Ryan Messmore warns that President Obama’s tax proposals might dampen charitable contributions and thereby increase dependence on government. Whoever would have thought that a billion-​​​​dollar bailout program wouldn’t work as expected? Adam Schroder’s 5 Steps to HTML5 showcases—and explains—some of the new features designers can build into their sites using HTML5 and CSS3. Smashing Magazine, meanwhile, […]

What would Edmund Burke do? Also: using CSS media queries to scale web sites; Europe’s welfare state; and Google’s free web fonts.