April 2010
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The CSS 3 Flexible Box Model ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the... →
CSS 3 introduces a brand new box model in addition of the traditional box model from CSS 1 and 2. The flexible box model determines the way boxes are distributed inside other boxes and the way they…
"Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we... →
“Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all…
Thoughts on Flash →
And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks…
How To Successfully Educate Your Clients On Web... →
If you are running a design agency, your job is very likely to combine business development, graphic design, technology and user experience design: a basketful of
An Introduction to Website Split Testing →
An Introduction to Website Split Testing
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It’s a fact of life that when people hire a…
Quick Tip: Ever Thought About Using @Font-face for... →
The evolution of Internet technologies never ceases to amaze. Seemingly daily, new concepts and techniques are being thought up by creative and talented people. With modern browsers being adopted at…
My five commandments for wireframing →
This feature is brought to you by Web Directions @media. Bringing together world experts in design and development, over 2 days of conference and 2 days of workshops, Web Directions…
Apple throws Adobe a bone -- on the Mac →
Filed under: Software
Adobe’s Flash Player has never performed as well in Mac OS X as it does on Windows-running PCs. The traditionally poor performance of Adobe’s plugin on the Mac has…
SEOmoz | Root Domains, Subdomains vs. Subfolders... →
Last week, I did a Whiteboard Friday, The Microsite Mistake, in which I called out a practice I see as potentially detimental to SEO - using a separate domain to accumulate links for your content…
Disable the default inner-shadow of search inputs... →
Just use the simple Safari CSS extension property -webkit-appearance: caret;. (Sure the tweet says it all but have you ever tried to find a specific tweet months later?) ●
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Another (really) quick one of Mimeo interacting... →
Another (really) quick one of Mimeo interacting with the new ramps and resolution-dependent blocks. Detection of these new elements is still pretty spotty (hence the short video). Next up:…
iA » iA’s 2006 Facebook Designs, Redesigned →
From December 2006 to February 2007 we were in touch with the product manager of facebook. The prospective: Redesigning facebook. Eventually. Since the contract was never signed, we kept our designs…
A quick update on in-game map rendering additions... →
A quick update on in-game map rendering additions (including resolution-dependent blocks). Xcode had its way with me yesterday; you can hear it in my voice.
The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look -... →
Most CSS properties are quite simple to deal with. Often, applying a CSS property to an element in your markup will have instant results — as soon as you refresh the page, the value set for the…
CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know - Smashing... →
Apart from Floats, the CSS Specificity is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp in Cascading Stylesheets. The different weight of selectors is usually the reason why your CSS-rules don’t…
To Anti-alias or Not To anti-alias? :: Blog ::... →
To Anti-alias or Not To anti-alias? - blog article entry by Lucian Slatineanu
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » More Web Inspector... →
A number of exciting new features have been added to the Web Inspector since our last update. This time, we’ve got three new panels to present: a Timeline, Audits and Dedicated Console. But…
The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » The Road to HTML... →
Welcome back to my semi-regular column, “The Road to HTML 5,” where I’ll try to explain some of the new elements, attributes, and other features in the upcoming HTML 5 specification. The feature…
Joypad turns your iPhone into wireless video game... →
Filed under: iPhone
Do you love playing classic games via emulators on your Mac but hate using the keyboard to control those 8-bit heroes? Joypad is just what you’ve been waiting…
Today I’m starting on the next version of Mapt,... →
Today I’m starting on the next version of Mapt, the web-based Mimeoverse level editor. This is a short demo of the inelegant, current version for posterity. The new version will…
Getting serious mileage out of my ground tiles... →
Getting serious mileage out of my ground tiles with some judicious palette swapping. A few assets for plain/grassland levels including cloud platforms and moss-covered blocks.
The Path To Advertising Nirvana →
With advertising, a curious thing happens: most people want its benefits but are rarely willing to put up with its hassles. Those who run websites and applications…
Towards A Cooler Focus Caret →
The focus caret is that dotted outline you see around HTML elements when they have the focus. In some Mac browsers you see a standardized glowing blue border instead, but most browsers show a…
Improving Your Process: Effectively Estimating... →
Estimates are the life blood of our industry. If anyone out there is getting jobs consistently without having to go through an estimation process, you’ve got some dark magic going on that I’d love…
Of Google and Page Speed →
Our visually and behaviorally rich sites are about to lose precious Google juice, WebSiteOptimization.com reports in a new piece titled Page Speed Factored into Google Search Rankings:
And with that Mimeo has been completely iPadized!... →
And with that Mimeo has been completely iPadized! Now to finish (start) the level editor so I can build out the game. (At about 38 seconds in you can start seeing Mimeo jump out of the…
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch on Flash CS5 and Section... →
Kevin Lynch: First of all, the ability to package an application for the iPhone or iPad is one feature in one product in Creative Suite. CS5 consists of 15 industry-leading applications, which…
Apple blocking Flash-built apps because of... →
Filed under: SDK
Following up on news that the iPhone 4.0 developer agreement prohibits cross-compiled third-party apps, AppleInsider received info that multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0 is…
Had some time today to improve Mimeo on the iPad.... →
Had some time today to improve Mimeo on the iPad. Things I don’t mention in the video: the HUD is still in the wrong position; both the iPhone and iPad have (and more importantly use)…
★ Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1 →
We’re still in the early days of the transition from the PC era to the mobile era. Right now, Apple is winning. There are other winners right now too — RIM is still growing, and Android has grown a…
Announcing WebKit2 →
Anders Carlsson and Sam Weinig, from Apple’s WebKit team: This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a…
Evernote for iPad is here! « Evernote Blogcast →
Two months ago, we sat glued to our browsers as details of the iPad started streaming out of Apple’s launch event. It didn’t take us very long to formulate our official strategy for the new device:…
Five Steps to a Clearer Career Focus →
One of the freelancer’s major challenges — if not the major challenge — is to be able to direct ourselves in our work. Focus is the key to self-direction. In most workplaces, employees have…
CSS Naked Day 2010 →
Although things have been quiet so far this year, I still plan on taking part in CSS Naked Day in 2010. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, CSS Naked Day is:
Where did my Design…
★ New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of... →
Prior to today’s release of the iPhone OS 4 SDK, section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement read, in its entirety: 3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the…
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Surprise, Surprise, the JooJoo Is a Turd →
Paul Miller reviews the JooJoo tablet for Engadget. It stinks. It’s fast, though, but — shockingly — Flash video performance is horrendous: Software issues aside, the JooJoo actually happens to…
Experimenting with web fonts on the iPad « The... →
We’ve been counting down the days along with everyone else in anticipation of Apple’s iPad. While we were waiting, we started experimenting with the iPad simulator, seeing what works and what…
iPhone 4.0 event coming April 8 →
Filed under: iPhone
Hey kids, remember the iPhone? Emerging from the shadows of the iPad release is a press invitation from Apple to participate in an iPhone 4.0 event on April 8…
First pass at the iPad controller overlay and a... →
First pass at the iPad controller overlay and a revised iPhone/iPod touch overlay. The iPad version will be “widescreen” (one extra column of tiles on the right) with glorious 4x4 pixels while…
The initial (largely) unmodified build of Mimeo on... →
The initial (largely) unmodified build of Mimeo on the iPad is promising—no where near perfect but promising none the less. (Now on YouTube ‘cause I heard you liked to watch the iPad on…
Life Below 600px | I Am Paddy →
Paddy Donnelly, an Irishman in Belgium who really lives on the Internet. A web designer, illustrator and blogger who co-created The Big Word Project.
Font-face in Chrome →
Some days you can tell that @font-face embedding is still trying to find its feet in becoming a stable and viable solution. Chrome 4 and 5 beta currently have a bug that creates some weird…
Teachers Unions: Don't Work Too Hard! →
Jaime Escalante — the math teacher who became famous for teaching even the poorest kids calculus in a failing Los Angeles school — died this week at age 78. His story shows not just what can be…