Adactio: Links Hyperlinks hand-picked by Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England. en http://adactio.com/links/ jeremy@adactio.com (Jeremy Keith) jeremy@adactio.com (Jeremy Keith) Adactio: Links http://adactio.com/links/ http://adactio.com/images/rssbutton.gif 88 19 Shopping Cart example http://lab.yatil.de/wsm11/ A nifty example of responsive tables. View source to see how it’s done.

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]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 22:23:11 GMT http://lab.yatil.de/wsm11/ responsive tables shopping development css The Publication Standards Project http://pubstandards.org/ Like the Web Standards Project but for ePub. I approve of this message.

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]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 09:44:12 GMT https://twitter.com/adactio/status/205216434358452224 twitter hashbang urls The Great Discontent: Dan Cederholm http://thegreatdiscontent.com/dan-cederholm The lovely (and responsive) Great Discontent site has a lovely interview with Dan, who is lovely.

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]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 15:05:29 GMT http://thegreatdiscontent.com/dan-cederholm interview design simplebits lovely The responsive images problem http://opensores.za.net/2012/responsive-images/ A run-down of the various approaches to the responsive images problem, concluding that this is something that needs to be solved in the image format.

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]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 14:04:14 GMT http://opensores.za.net/2012/responsive-images/ responsive images formats progressive » The real conflict behind picture and @srcset (Cloud Four Blog) http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-real-conflict-behind-picture-and-srcset/ Jason outlines the real challenge to every proposed solution for responsive images: they just don’t jibe with the way that browsers (quite rightly) pre-fetch images.

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]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 13:56:16 GMT http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-real-conflict-behind-picture-and-srcset/ responsive images browsers standards development performance Readlists http://readlists.com/ This looks like a really handy service from Readability: gather together a number of related articles from ‘round the web and then you can export them to a reading device of your choice. It’s like Huffduffer for text.

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]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 13:45:38 GMT http://readlists.com/ readlists reading readability text writing publishing kindle ebook Kiwibank: Standing Up for Something New — Paul Robert Lloyd http://paulrobertlloyd.com/2012/05/kiwibank/ Paul interviews the team behind Kiwibank’s responsive homepage. There are some great insights into their process here, like the way that copywriters worked side by side with developers.

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]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 13:07:02 GMT http://paulrobertlloyd.com/2012/05/kiwibank/ responsive design development bank kiwibank process workflow LukeW | Data Monday: E-commerce Performance http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1553 Time is money …especially when it comes to performance on the web.

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]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 07:59:22 GMT http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1553 performance money business ecommerce Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit! http://microjs.com/ I really like this trend of small standalone scripts rather than plug-ins that require the presence of a library.

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]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 18:21:27 GMT http://microjs.com/ javascript scripts microjs scripting small micro js Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/digital-archivists-technological-custodians-of-human-history/ An introduction to the important work of digital archivists:

Much like the family member that collects, organizes, and identifies old family photos to preserve one’s heritage, digital archivists seek to do the same for all mankind.

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]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 18:19:50 GMT http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/digital-archivists-technological-custodians-of-human-history/ digital preservation archivists archiving technology analogue Like A Rounded Corner (Bruce and The Standardettes) - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGZ9tVu4Ahs Bravo, Bruce, bravo.

I heard Glen Campbell’s “Like A Rhinestone Cowboy” on the radio and began absent-mindedly singing “Like a rounded corner” to it.

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]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 19:10:56 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGZ9tVu4Ahs youtube video song brucelawson css standards parody funny humour Every Mobile Social App Site, Ever · Visual Idiot http://visualidiot.com/articles/social-apps This is kinda funny (because it’s kinda true).

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]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 10:44:27 GMT http://visualidiot.com/articles/social-apps mobile apps ios iphone parody social funny humour cliché trend A New Take on Responsive Tables by ZURB http://www.zurb.com/article/982/a-new-take-on-responsive-tables An interesting approach to squishing down large data tables for small-screen viewing …though I wonder if there isn’t a “Mobile First” approach that could scale up, say, lists to become tables on large screens.

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]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 10:01:13 GMT http://www.zurb.com/article/982/a-new-take-on-responsive-tables responsive design development tables markup css Shallow Thoughts » srcset vs. picture http://shallowthoughts.org/2012/05/17/img-srcset-vs-picture/ A well thought-out evaluation on responsive images from Bridget.

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]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 01:23:30 GMT http://shallowthoughts.org/2012/05/17/img-srcset-vs-picture/ responsive images standards process whatwg browsers html JS Hotline: (877) 300-2187 http://javascript.pockethotline.com/ I love this! A volunteer-run hotline for answering JavaScript questions (set up by the awesome Garann Means, who literally wrote the book on Node.js).

I think I might volunteer my services.

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]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 09:51:21 GMT http://javascript.pockethotline.com/ javascript hotline resource phone support community volunteer education teaching learning Context-Free Patent Art http://contextfreepatentart.tumblr.com/ This is wonderfully random: illustrations used to illustrate patent applications but without the context.

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]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 00:34:29 GMT http://contextfreepatentart.tumblr.com/ tumblr blog patents illustration funny drawings humour inspiring toilets http://inspiringtoilets.tumblr.com/ Inspired by the recent .net magazine article on “20 leading web designers’ desks for your inspiration”, here’s a blog dedicated to the place where the real web design magic happens: the designer’s poostation.

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]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 09:41:13 GMT http://inspiringtoilets.tumblr.com/ toilet blog parody funny humour inspiration How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet A heartbreaking article about just how badly Yahoo fucked up with Flickr. It’s particularly sad coming out right as the Flickr devs roll out an improved uploader and a more liquid photo page …but it seems like band-aid development at this point.

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]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 00:51:07 GMT http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet flickr yahoo business photos social sharing The Blind Shooting The Blind ∵ Stephen van Egmond’s weblog http://svan.ca/blog/2012/blind/ If you make inaccessible iOS apps, you really only have yourself to blame.

There are also some handy tips here for getting to know VoiceOver.

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