Cheap’n’cheerful
The street will find its own uses for this device.
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Anniversary
It was twenty years ago today.
A dao revisited
Musing on a thirteen year old piece of writing on the web.
Responsive workshopping
A half-day workshop I did at this year’s UX London.
Promo
A word from our sponsors.
Not tumbling, but spiralling
I’m going to miss Tumblr when it’s gone.
Placehold on tight
Getting consistent browser behaviour for the placeholder attribute.
Off-canvas horizontal lists
Sharing a pattern that didn’t quite work.
Told you so
In which I permit myself a moment to gloat about liquid layouts.
Tools of the trade
Apps for designers.
Responsive audio out
All the talks are available for your listening and huffduffing pleasure.
Oh, what a Responsive Day Out that was!
Out of the park.
Responsive day soon
Counting down the days.
Jets dream
A modest proposal for long-distance air travel.
Designing for Touch by Josh Clark
Liveblogging Josh’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Responsive and Responsible by Scott Jehl
Liveblogging Scott’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
It’s a Write/Read Mobile Web by Luke Wroblewski
Liveblogging Luke’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Billboards and Novels by Jon Tan
Liveblogging Jon’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Strong Layout Systems by Eric Meyer
Liveblogging Eric’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
10 Commandments of Web Design by Jeffrey Zeldman
Liveblogging Jeffrey’s talk at An Event Apart in Atlanta.
Counting down to the Responsive Day Out
Just two weeks to go.
Tweakpoints
Not all media queries are created equal.
A question of style
The only correct coding style is the one everyone is agreeing to use.
Open device labs
The communal device lab is here for us to use.
When is a link not a link?
When it’s a void.
The test
What’s the first thing you do?
Long time
Why does a decade on the web feel like an epoch?
A question of time
My answer to a deceptively simple-sounding question.
Clearleft.com past and present
Design iterations over eight years.
Dealing with IE again
Some clarification.
Responsive Day Out updates
A line-up change and an after-party.
Dealing with IE
The hacks we shouldn’t have to do.
Canvas sparklines
Scripting Tufte’s bite-sized charts.
More Responsive Day Out
Get a ticket while stocks last.
The Session
Finally, the Irish music community site gets an overhaul.
Responsive Day Out
Come on down to Brighton on March 1st, 2013. A great day out for £50!
Building Matter
Today is launch day for an exceptionally good project.
Full fathom frontal
A day of front-end fun in Brighton.
Iconic imagery
Responsive images, compressive images, and icon fonts. Take your pick.
Responsive readlist
Links from a workshop.
Scrollin’, scrollin’, scrollin’
Keep them updates scrollin’.
Relations
Apple’s lack of developer relations for Safari needs to change.
Open device labs
Bring me your phones, your tablets, your huddled devices.
Return to Freiburg
Thanks to Smashing Magazine, I had the chance to revisit my old haunts.
Listen to Brighton SF
The audio (and transcript) is available for your listening (and reading) pleasure.
The mind-blowing awesomeness of dConstruct 2012
Preceded by the mind-blowing awesomeness of Brighton SF.
Questions, please
What should I ask Brian Aldiss, Lauren Beukes, and Jeff Noon?
Maptales of Brighton
The places to be.
From Chicago to Brighton
Geeking it up on both sides of the Atlantic.
Navicon
Three lines.
Generating placeholders from datalists
Some JavaScript to spruce up forms in HTML5 documents.
Laboratory conditions
The testlab setup.
Noon
Brighton SF just got even better.
Countdown to September
Preparing for the Brighton Digital Festival.
Things
Read these things about things on the network.
How do I convince…?
All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
Device labs
Brighton, London, Malmö…
Brighton SF
I’m gathering together some sci-fi authors the evening before dConstruct.
Austin Apart
A conference in Texas. No, not that one.
September in Brighton
The Brighton Digital Festival returns.
Conferencing
May: The Netherlands, Belgium, and Canada. June: nothing. July: Barcelona and Austin.
Turing
Happy birthday, Alan.
Device expansion
Some more device grist for the communal testing mill.
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.
