Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
There is nothing quite so sad as having delivered a new feature or solved an issue, and then find out it doesn’t work in browser X (whether because it’s a dinosaur browser or just not shiny enough. Modernizr’s asynchronous conditional resource loader to the rescue! Continue reading Conditional Browser Feature Testing with Modernizr
The idea of “Responsive images” i.e. the smallest best image for the device has been a challenge. Now with more and more real world experience some proposals to modify the HTML5 spec are starting to emerge. Continue reading Progress Towards Responsive Images : srcset and picture
Over on the net magazine’s web site there is a new piece : The top 10 mobile design mistakes – and how to avoid them, it a good list of things to consider because “Good Mobile Design is Good Web Design” Continue reading Avoiding Web Design Mistakes
With the rise of mobile devices (phone and or tablet sized), many enterprises are starting to rethink their existing front end systems. Where in the late 90’s it was common to heard the cry of “We Need a WebSite” followed Continue reading Building the mobile app : web or native
TL;DR : not because this is easy but because it is less hard than the other way; 3rd order content is dealt with Glengarry Glen Ross style; “Mobile First†Design is “Good Designâ€. Continue reading Why Mobile First for Responsive Web Design
TL;DR Current CSS Grid frameworks lead to HTML Class Vomit. Using SASS Mixin blocks Bourbon Neat fixes that, and allows practical Unobtrusive CSS, for clear(er) markup. Continue reading Unobtrusive CSS becomes practical and Neat.