Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

ishida >> blog » HTML5 adds new translate attribute

Richard gives the lowdown on the new translate attribute in HTML.

MATTER by Matter — Kickstarter

Bobbie’s new journalism project is up and running on Kickstarter. Get in there!

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Dress Responsively, LTD

The site’s a mockup but if you want it badly enough, these responsive-themed T-shirts could be real.

Responsive Summit • London 23rd Feb 2012

Typical! I leave the country and this excellent gathering gets organised while I’m away. I wish I could be there.

Let them know in advance if you have any responsive-related questions they should tackle.

IMG_8191 - 2012-02-15 at 02-39-26 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I can’t fave this picture enough. One moment of Webstock captured by Michael B. Johnson.

IMG_8191 - 2012-02-15 at 02-39-26

SXSW speakers: Promote your panel with free MOO MiniCards! | The Lanyrd Blog

Moo and Lanyrd sitting in a tree, helping promote my SXSW panel. Excellent!

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Responsive Images Community Group

There’s a W3C community group now for looking at the responsive images question.

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Official Google Blog: Renewing old resolutions for the new year

Google are shutting down the Social Graph API. Twunts.

Sunday, February 12th, 2012

BibliOdyssey: Channelling Martian Maps

Beautiful 19th century maps of Mars.

Camping at Kiwifoo | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

The Kiwi Foo Space Program (a weather balloon with an Android device attached) captured some beautiful images.

Camping at Kiwifoo

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox - Waxy.org

Andy sounds a cautionary note: the password anti-pattern may be dying, but OAuth permission-granting shouldn’t be blasé. This is why granular permissions are so important.

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Structure First. Content Always. | Mark Boulton

Some clarifying thoughts from Mark: “content first” doesn’t have to literally mean having the final content first …but it does mean knowing the structure of the content.

Pears

A great pattern library from Dan.

BLDGBLOG: Object Cancers

You think that Digital Rights Management is bad? What about Physible Rights Management?

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

The Inceptionator: For all your Inception Trailer Horn Sound needs

BWWAAAMP!

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Redefined | Trent Walton

Man, I love Trent’s honesty! This had me nodding my head vigorously — yes, responsive design means fundamentally approaching the way we build for the web …that’s what makes it so exciting!

I suspect that some naysayers of responsive design, were they to do some soul-searching, would find themselves relating to Trent’s initial scepticism.

The CSS3 Test

A really handy test site from Lea that reports your browser’s recognition of CSS properties.

» Of Grids, Class Names, Responsiveness, and Lifecycles Bits Pushed Around

The thought process behind trying to abstract class names that are used for layout in responsive designs (and can therefore refer to different widths depending on the context). Here, the author settles on letters. In the past, I’ve approached the same kind of abstraction by using latinised names.

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Science Hack Day Chicago

What a fantastic location for a Science Hack Day: the Adler planetarium in Chicago! Get there if you can.

GREY GOOSE® Vodka | The World’s Best Tasting Vodka

This beautiful site not only features the oh-so-trendy vertical parallax, but it’s responsive too. Impressive!