The Future of Open Fabrication
A thorough hypertext report from those good folks at the Institute For The Future on our fabrication overlords.
Link archive: November 15th, 2011
Vendor Prefixes Are Hurting the Web
This is a very thoughtful piece by Henri on vendor prefixes and it’s well worth a read …however the thought of one browser implementing support for vendor-prefixed properties intended for a different browser does make me quite quesy.
Responsive Advertising| Mark Boulton
A great in-depth look at the tricky problem of advertising in responsive design from Mark.
The mobile web splash screen antipattern [Legends of the Sun Pig - Martin Sutherland’s Blog]
Excellent points, eloquently delivered, on why sites shouldn’t be shoving their native Apps in the face of people who just arrived at their website on a mobile device.
Putting up a splash screen is like McDonalds putting a bouncer on the door, and telling customers who just parked their car and want to enter the restaurant that they should use the drive-through instead.
ExtendNY - New York City Extended
Sheer brilliance: taking the street grid of Manhattan and extending it to cover the entire world. For the record, I live near the intersection of east 11,303rd avenue and 63,475th street.