They Keep Using That Word ∙ An A List Apart Column
David gets physidigital.
David gets physidigital.
This issue of A List Apart is a great double-whammy. Lara Swanson has a ton of practical tips for front-end performance enhancements, and Brian dives deep into making your own icon fonts.
A peak behind the scenes at the responsive design and development workflow at Bearded. It makes a lot of sense.
The kickass articles just keep on comin’. This one from Dave is a great overview of options for dealing with images in responsive designs.
A really great article from Paul that simultaneously takes a high-level view of the web while also focusing on the details. A lot of work went into this.
An excellent in-depth article from Anna on the many gaming devices out there that have both an internet connection and a web browser.
A great article by Hannah, focusing on the Long Web—it isn’t about the quantity of data you’re publishing; it’s the quality. This builds nicely on the article I linked to recently about digital scarcity.
How about this for a trip down memory lane—a compendium of articles from over a decade of A List Apart, also available as a Readlist epub. It’s quite amazing just how good this free resource is.
The only thing to fault is that, due to some kind of clerical error, one of my articles has somehow found its way onto this list.
If this were Twitter, you’d be at-replying me with the hashtag “humblebrag”, wouldn’t you?
This really is a ridiculously smart way of keeping third-party videos scalable in responsive layouts. I’ve just implemented it on this year’s dConstruct site.
A terrific article from Wilto detailing the thinking that went into the Boston Globe’s responsive image techniques and how browser pre-caching is now throwing a spanner in the works.
A superb piece of writing from Jeffrey, scorching the screen with righteous anger. THIS. IS. IMPORTANT!
SOPA approaches the piracy problem with a broad brush, lights that brush on fire, and soaks the whole internet in gasoline.
A great piece about the changing nature of content ownership and distribution. And now I share it with you, validating its central premise.
An excellent argument in favour of vendor prefixes in CSS, from Eric.
I love this article by Amber Simmons. The truth shines through.
A great hands-on article on the benefits of playing with paper.
A French translation of my most recent article for A List Apart.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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