I’m really lazy about using <abbr></abbr> tags for acronyms. Most people who read a techy blog like this probably understand them, but surely there are some visitors who don’t where a simple tooltip explanation would be beneficial. Maybe with this easy copy-and-paste resource to reference I’ll actually start doing it. This is an education blog, after all.
Last time we did a group design project, we did a list with functions and we got lots of interesting ideas. Then the other day I linked to a video of Ryan Singer, a tiny part of which inspired the idea of radio buttons with 2-way exclusivity. Then reader Erik Edhagen suggested I do more of those group design project things… so here we are!
What do you think is reasonable page size to try and stay under for a modern web design?
Let’s say you’ve designed a web page and it makes use of a full page background image. You really like the way the site looks with this background image. It looks amazing. But the image is 350k. You’ve decided that, while you know this is heavy, it’s worth it.
But then you start thinking about mobile.
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. The pipe character “|” is by far the most popular page title separator with 47% of the vote and being up against 15 other choices.
In which I show and explain the very basics of what "responsive web design" has come to mean. Then I go all over the place and show examples, related resources, relevant people, tips and tricks, and more.
A bunch of crazy awesome affects you can apply via CSS through the filter property: blur, drop-shadow, gamma, grayscale, hue-rotate, invert, opacity, saturate, sepia, and sharpen. Adobe has been doing some great stuff with CSS lately. Their last amazing demo isn't just a demo anymore, it will be implemented in IE 10. Let's hope these make it into the spec and implemented as well.
It's a new language the runs in the browser and servers. A lot of it is over my head, but I always celebrate new thinking especially when it has a bunch of smart people behind it. The obvious point is that, if it's a direct competitor to JavaScript, that JavaScript has far more browser support. I'm sure that fact isn't lost on the team.
Wasn't this the last Google-originated language? Did that go anywhere?
Listen to the engineers behind Amazon's new "Silk" web browser talk about how it uses the cloud to take the load off mobile devices.
Sounds like it does all the asset-requesting for you from the cloud, optimizes it, then sends you down one file that gets rendered into a website. Sounds clever to me, as long as it's secure as hell.
Rumor has it: WebKit based.
