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Screwed 9 Nov 2012 | 02:03 am
Web standards promised that we could develop once, deploy everywhere. I can’t help but wonder about that premise after reading @bradfrost’s post, Device Fatigue. I believe in web standards. I have sp...
Responsive images, the picture element and the W3C: This is how you deal with Hixie and WHATWG 28 Aug 2012 | 11:00 pm
First of all, huge congratulations to Mat Marquis, Jason Grigsby, Scott Jehl, Ethan Marcotte, Florian Rioval and all the other web geniuses who are working to make responsive images much, much easier ...
Revenge of the Twitter API 18 Aug 2012 | 12:55 am
Darth Twitter I’ve been waiting for you, Ay-pei Devobi; now I am the master. Devobi Only a master of evil, Darth. Darth Twitter Your powers are weak, old man. Devobi You can’t win, Darth. If yo...
Responsive design and retina images: skating to where the puck will be 10 Aug 2012 | 10:57 pm
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” —Wayne Gretzky The web is changing. Before, our biggest worries were the diversity of browsers. How do we get CSS to work across b...
The insanity of vendor prefixes 3 May 2012 | 03:05 am
The web controversy du jour: Opera confirms WebKit prefix usage. Many others have written wisely on why this does or doesn’t break the web. So let me put this more simply. Many of the vendor propone...
Opportunities for magic 24 Mar 2012 | 04:06 am
The new iPad has arrived, most notably with a retina display with four times as many pixels as the previous display. The new iPad has 2048 by 1536 pixels, for an amazing resolution of 264 pixels per i...
I can wait for this birthday present 3 Mar 2012 | 07:44 pm
Today, March 3, is my birthday. My birthday present will be arriving September 7, 2012. Or thereabouts. We can wait. Tags: Family
Breaking vendor prefixes 2 Mar 2012 | 01:17 pm
I have already said a lot of what I want to say about vendor prefixes, but here’s one more tidbit. Removing support for prefixed CSS features, when a feature is considered stable, seems counterproduc...
Why not version prefixes instead of browser prefixes for CSS? 10 Feb 2012 | 09:57 am
The Prefixolypse is upon us. For the past few years, one of the ways CSS has advanced is through the use of vendor prefixes. According to the minutes from a recent CSS Working Group meeting, that fra...
The benefit of multi-class characters in web design 28 Jan 2012 | 07:51 am
Andy Budd wrote a great post on Web Design Disciplines Explained Through the Medium of Dungeons & Dragons. Go read the article: I’ll wait. If you have never played an RPG, his post or mine are probab...
