Progressive enhancement in the Government Service Design manual
A nice description of progressive enhancement by Norm, as applied at GDS.
Tags: github
joshje/svg-for-web · GitHub
If, like me, you’ve been using the “export to SVG” plugin for Fireworks and then opening up the resultant file to trim it down, Josh has got you covered: here’s a version of “export to SVG” that will result in much slimmer files.
phuu/sparksvg · GitHub
Remember when I made that canvas sparkline script? Remember when Stuart grant my wish for an SVG version? Well, now Tom has gone one further and created a hosted version on sparksvg.me
Not a fan of sparklines? Bars and circles are also available.
Responsive Measure: A jQuery plugin for responsive typography
Here’s something that Josh debuted at Smashing Conference: a script for responsive designs to adjust font-sizes based on a desired line-length.
Inevitably, it’s a jQuery plugin but I’m sure somebody could fork it to create a standalone version (hint, hint).
mattdiamond/fuckitjs
This is possibly the most horrifying piece of JavaScript ever written. The license is good too.
filamentgroup/Southstreet
This is excellent! Scott, Wilto, and the gang at Filament Group have released the tools they use to help them craft performant responsive sites. Lots of excellent resources for conditional loading here.
necolas/idiomatic-css
Some sensible ideas about having a consistent CSS writing style.
Issue #408: Generate a separate css with flattened media queries
This is an excellent idea from Jake: use a preprocessor to automatically spit out a stylesheet for older versions of IE that includes desktop styles (garnered from the declarations within media queries).
If you’re a dab hand with Ruby and you’d like to see this in SASS, you can help.
paulrobertlloyd/barebones
Paul has open-sourced his front-end style guide and put it up on Github. It’s a very handy starting point for making your own.
scottjehl/Device-Bugs
Scott has created a one-stop-shop for documenting browser bugs in mobile devices. Feel free to add to it.
Kicksend/mailcheck · GitHub
A handy little script that attempts to check email inputs for misspelled domain names. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t need to be written as a jQuery pug-in, though: anyone want to fork it and create a non-jQuery version too?
nathanford/pngy - GitHub
A script that attempts to detect connection speed (by requesting a test file three times in a row) in order to determine whether hi-res images should be requested or not.
marstall/shim - GitHub
A very clever and tricksy way to sync up multiple devices so that when you refresh a URL or follow a link on one, it happens on all of them. It uses OS X’s Internet Sharing feature combined with locally-hosted Node.js. It’s positively McGyverian!
Responsive web design from the future — Warpspire
I really like the thinking that’s gone into the design of Github, as shown in this presentation. It’s not really about responsive design as we commonly know it, but boy, is it a great deep dive into the importance of URLs and performance.
GitHub for Mac
This Mac desktop GUI should go some way to making designers less fearful of getting stuck in with GitHub.
The Story of the HTML5 Shiv « Paul Irish
This dovetails nicely with my recent post about the spirit of distributed collaboration. Here’s a great little bit of near-history spelunking from Paul, all about styling new HTML5 elements in pesky older versions of Internet Explorer.
this, is boomerang
This code could be useful in determining a user’s bandwidth.
filamentgroup/Responsive-Images - GitHub
Some very smart ideas here for responsively enhancing image requests.