Adactio The online home of Jeremy Keith, an author and web developer living and working in Brighton, England. en http://adactio.com/ jeremy@adactio.com (Jeremy Keith) jeremy@adactio.com (Jeremy Keith) Adactio http://adactio.com/ http://adactio.com/images/rssbutton.gif 88 19 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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]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 15:49:55 GMT http://svan.ca/blog/2012/blind/ ios iphone apple accessibility voiceover Dmitry Baranovskiy’s Web Log: Mermaids & Fishermen http://dmitry.baranovskiy.com/post/mermaids-fishermen I am a mermaid.

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]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 13:54:50 GMT http://dmitry.baranovskiy.com/post/mermaids-fishermen web philosophy mermaids fishermen purpose Jordan Moore: Source Shuffling—Responsive Images Based On Media Queries http://www.jordanm.co.uk/post/22964442013/source-shuffling-responsive-images-based-on-media Combine the lowsrc-like image technique I blogged about with the conditional CSS technique I blogged about and this is the result.

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]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 18:13:45 GMT http://www.jordanm.co.uk/post/22964442013/source-shuffling-responsive-images-based-on-media responsive images development The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen | Epicenter | Wired.com http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/ff_andreessen/all/1 Chris Anderson interviews Mark Andreessen.

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]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 10:19:00 GMT http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/ff_andreessen/all/1 interview wired mosaic technology internet web history The origin of the blink tag http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag Have you thought “There must be a good reason for the blink element.” Well, read on.

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]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 00:41:51 GMT http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag blink browsers text history code standards html markup The Tink Tank » Jeremy Keith’s Pork chop recipe http://tink.co.uk/2012/05/jeremy-keiths-pork-chop-recipe/ Léonie is collecting some recipes from web geeks. Here’s my contribution via Valentine Warner.

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]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 21:09:35 GMT http://tink.co.uk/2012/05/jeremy-keiths-pork-chop-recipe/ food cooking recipe API Panel http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22505462 The video of the panel I moderated on device and network APIs on the second day of Mobilism in Amsterdam. It’s not quite as snappy as the browser panel (which, given the subject matter, is unsurprising) but it was still good fun.

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]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 15:59:03 GMT http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22505462 video ustream mobilism conference panel mobilismconf event amsterdam api network standards Mobile Browser Panel 2012, Mobile Browser Panel at Mobilism 2012 Moderated by Jeremy Keith, this panel features Andrea Trasatti (Nokia), Andreas Bovens (O… http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22486410 Here’s the video of the mobile browser panel I moderated at Mobilism in Amsterdam. These guys were really good sports to put up with my wisecracking shots for cheap laughs at their expense.

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]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 15:52:57 GMT http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22486410 video ustream mobilism conference browsers panel mobilismconf event amsterdam It’s Not Working For Me: #crit | Mark Boulton http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/its-not-working-for-me-crit Mark talks about design criticism. This makes a great companion piece to the Jon Kolko article on design criticism that I linked to last week.

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]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 23:19:35 GMT http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/its-not-working-for-me-crit design criticism critique crit We are Colorblind http://wearecolorblind.com/ A really nice site dedicated entirely to making the web a better place for the colourblind.

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]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 23:18:00 GMT http://wearecolorblind.com/ accessibility colourblind Tomorrow’s web type today: The fine flourish of the ligature » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/the-fine-flourish-of-the-ligature/ An informative post on ligatures in web type from Elliot. And, oh yeah, he redesigned his site again (it’s unsurprisingly lovely).

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]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 23:09:21 GMT http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/the-fine-flourish-of-the-ligature/ ligatures typography fonts type Brighton Mini Maker Faire is Back – and We Need YOU! | Brighton Mini Maker Faire http://www.makerfairebrighton.com/2012/05/10/brighton-mini-maker-faire-2012-call-for-makers/ Brighton’s Mini Maker Faire (which was fantastic last year) will take place the day after dConstruct and this time, they’ve got a lot more space. Want to get involved? Get involved!

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]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 23:04:30 GMT http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/ parody development framework boilerplate mariobatalivoice http://mariobatalivoice.blogspot.co.uk/ I am very disappointed that the internet didn’t tell me sooner that Steve Albini has a food blog.

So just in case you didn’t already know: Steve Albini has a food blog.

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]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 10:52:27 GMT http://mariobatalivoice.blogspot.co.uk/ food blog cooking Springload: OnMediaQuery - Responsive Javascript http://www.springload.co.nz/love-the-web/responsive-javascript This is nice: the solution I blogged about for conditional CSS (reading media queries from JavaScript) all wrapped up in a nice small reusable bundle.

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]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 09:46:22 GMT http://www.springload.co.nz/love-the-web/responsive-javascript javascript conditional css mediaqueries plugin In Flux | Trent Walton http://trentwalton.com/2012/05/08/in-flux/ Trent offers some excellent advice for dealing with the effects of the iPad’s retina display on your websites. That advice is: don’t panic.

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]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 22:03:38 GMT http://trentwalton.com/2012/05/08/in-flux/ ipad retina images display optimisation futurefriendly ffly A separate mobile website: no forking way | Opinion | .net magazine http://www.netmagazine.com/opinions/separate-mobile-website-no-forking-way A great article by Karen pointing to the real problem with the mobile strategies of so many companies: they are locked in by their CMS.

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]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 16:35:34 GMT http://www.netmagazine.com/opinions/separate-mobile-website-no-forking-way mobile cms responsive content strategy The Farmer & Farmer Review. Modern Medicine by Jonathan Harris http://farmerandfarmer.org/medicine/index.html This is very, very good. It gets a little unhinged towards the end but Jonathan Harris’s initial comparisons of software with medicine are spot-on.

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