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Secret src

Hammering out the issues around standardising responsive images.

Your local mobile device lab

Opening up the Clearleft device lab has resulted in more devices.

Questions for Mobilism

I’m going to be moderating two panel discussions. What should I ask the panelists?

dConstruct optimisation

Tweaking the dConstruct 2012 site for performance.

Left to our own devices

Pop ‘round to the Clearleft office if you want to test a site on our devices.

Conditional CSS

The results are in. Here’s what you came up with to solve the problem of conditional loading with CSS.

Fanfare for the common breakpoint

“Common” breakpoints are the new fold.

Conditionally loading content

Conditional loading is a great technique for responsive designs but we need a better way of communicating between CSS and JavaScript.

Announcing dConstruct 2012

Save the date: September 7th, 2012 is going to be a fantastic day in Brighton.

Twilight

The slow disappearance of a storage medium.

Responsive questions

Responding to responsiveness, as prompted by MacUser UK magazine.

Sharing pattern libraries

I, for one, welcome our new sharing and caring overlords of markup and CSS.

Of Time and the Network and the Long Bet

Matt has accepted the challenge I threw down in my Webstock talk (which has now been transcribed).

Space by Botwest

A day of robots, science hacks, digital preservation and the new aesthetic.

Getting ahead in advertising

My sense of entitlement. Let me show it to you.

Image-y nation

A responsive image technique leads to some nostalgia for the early days of web development.

Publishing Paranormal Interactivity

Read the transcript of my talk from An Event Apart 2010.

dConstruct Audio Archive

Seven years of audio goodness gathered together in one place.

Detection

A mobile-first approach to UA-sniffing.

Cool your eyes don’t change

The transcript of the audio of the video of the talk from Build.

One moment

Archiving a special mention by the greatest archivist of them all.

Audio Update

How I wish that conference audio were as widespread of conference video. Speaking of which, I’ve transcribed my talk from the Update conference.

Media queries and multiple columns

Responsiveness in the second dimension.

Months and years

Progressively enhancing form fields.

Who goes there?

From another world.

Retreat 4 Geeks 2012

Want to join me on a horse ranch in the Rockies?

iWish

A Christmas letter.

The last show of the year

I left my Event Apart in San Francisco.

The forgotten house

The internet never forgets to think that the internet never forgets.

Clean conditional loading

Tidying up some code I used in a 24 Ways article.

Speaking, not hacking

I had fun at Build in Belfast but alas, I didn’t make it to Science Hack Day in San Francisco.

Pursuing semantic value

Agreeing and disagreeing with Divya.

Responsible responsive images

A future-friendly approach to mobile-first responsive design.

Brookland

New Amsterdam.

Analogue

Reading in the sky.

What technology wants

I cried too.

Ending September

I travelled. I talked.

Ten

Happy birthday to this.

Improving Reality

Documenting the infinite loop between science fiction and reality in digital art, cinema and gaming.

Detection

Smart defaults are important, especially when it comes to server-side sniffing.

Boston Global Scope

This. This is how we should build for the web.

The Language of the Web

The Breaking Development conference was the perfect platform for discussing all things mobile.

The country songs of distant Earth

Greetings from Nashville, or possibly space.

Update

Annoying iOS developers for fun and for serious.

Makers in Brighton

All the fun of the Maker Faire.

dConstruction of the Fables

dConstruct 2011 was great …in my opinion.

Re-tabulate

Combining responsive design with CSS table layout to rearrange the display of content and navigation.

Re-flex

Putting content first by combining responsive design with the CSS3 flexible box layout module.

The Lost Lemonworld

Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?

OurSpace

Our collective creativity, no matter how ugly, is worth preserving.

Digital Deathwatch

Waiting for the deletionist axe to fall.

Responsive dConstruction

I’m preparing a workshop for dConstruct on responsive design.

Farewell to June

A look back and a look ahead.

Indie Web Camping

The dream of independent publishing is alive in Portland.

Newcastling

Conferences in the UK.

L33t ski11z

One of these things may just change your life.

Ethan

There’s a book I want you to read.

Hashcloud

The web is agreement.

The good new days

Everything new is old again.

Ampersand

Five weeks ‘till Brighton goes type mad.

Podchatting

Listen in to a conversation I had about responsive web design.

Bye, bye pride

Missing Grant McLennan.

An Event Apart apart

Failing to explain what made An Event Apart in Boston so special to me.

All Our Yesterdays: the links

Hyperlinks of digital preservation.

Jared Spool: The Secret Lives of Links

Liveblogging Jared’s talk at An Event Apart in Boston.

Ethan Marcotte: The Responsive Designer’s Workflow

Liveblogging Ethan’s talk at An Event Apart in Boston.

Luke Wroblewski: Mobile Web Design Moves

Liveblogging Luke’s talk at An Event Apart in Boston.

Veerle Pieters: The Experimental Zone

Liveblogging Veerle’s talk at An Event Apart in Boston.

Whitney Hess: Design Principles — The Philosophy of UX

Liveblogging Whitney’s presentation at An Event Apart in Boston.

Jeffrey Zeldman: What Every Web Designer Should Know — A Better You At What You Do

Liveblogging Jeffrey’s opening talk at An Event Apart in Boston.

Content First

In which I repeatedly hammer home the point that it’s all about the content.

Voice of the bot-hive

I for one welcome our new voice-activated algorithmic overlords.

Shanghai

My travel report.

The Kindle connection

For all the faults with its digital books, this little device is proving its worth.

Zånhae nights

上海

Lazy loading on Huffduffer

Lazy responsiveness or responsive laziness.

Respond

Another way of ensuring Internet Explorer gets your layout styles.

Windows mobile media queries

Solving that pesky Windows Phone 7 problem.

Skillful stories

An excellent night of narrative exploration in Brighton.

Orientation and scale

Attempting to patch a bug in Mobile Safari.

Principles Apart

Gathering many design principles into one document.

Baran

Revisiting the origins of the internet.

Clarification

A follow-up on responsive web design.

Context

Clarifying the problem space of responsive web design.

Caveat

The fine print.

South by south met

SxSW is Soylent Green.

American Odyssey

Brighton to Illinois to Texas to Florida to Oregon to Washington to Brighton.

The long prep

Care to place a wager?

Voice of the Beeb hive

When is an explanation not an explanation?

Sea change

Don’t fear responsive design; embrace it.

Going Postel

How hash-bang URLs violate the robustness principle.

Linkrotting

The difference between being on the web and being archived.

Erase and rewind

The BBC is planning to delete 172 websites.

A dark star is born

We are dark stardust, we are golden, we are puppets.

The Huffduffer Hotline

Get your Huffduffer fix down the phone line, thanks to Tropo .

The URI is the thing

My name is Jeremy and I am a URL fetishist.

DOM Scripting, second edition

My first book has been updated (though not by me).

Tweaking Huffduffer

An oEmbed nip here, a responsive design tuck there.

Home-grown and Delicious

The Pembertonisation of my bookmarks: I’m hosting my own.

One web

Let’s get together and feel alright.