The Daily Report
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Now You See Me…
SHOWING AND HIDING CONTENT using JavaScript-based page manipulations for tabbed interfaces, collapsible elements, and accordion widgets is a common development pattern. Learn how your choice of hiding mechanism can influence content accessibility in assistive technologies…
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CSS3 Animation Hit List
ANTHONY CALZADILLA
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All Our Yesterdays
In his All Our Yesterdays presentation at An Event Apart in Boston, MA 2011 Jeremy Keith outlined the problem of digital preservation on the Web and provided some strategies for taking a long term view…
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More Meaningful Typography
TIM BROWN in A LIST APART: A MODULAR SCALE is a sequence of numbers that relate to one another in a meaningful way. Using the golden ratio, for example, we can produce values for a…
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Jared Spool: The Secret Lives of Links
… The back button is the button of doom. The user clicks the back button when they run out of scent, just like a fox circling back. But foxes succeed ‘cause rabbits are stupid and…
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Ethan Marcotte: The Responsive Designer’s Workflow
A responsive site isn’t flipping between a set of fixed layouts. It’s liquid. Breakpoints that you haven’t thought of will still work. You have to figure out what is the most appropriate experience for what…
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Luke Wroblewski: Mobile Web Design Moves
A few years ago, Morgan Stanley published a report in which they predicted that somewhere in 2012 more mobile devices would be shipped than PCs. Well, it happened two years earlier than predicted. As Eric…
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Veerle Pieters: The Experimental Zone
The next speaker at An Event Apart in Boston is Veerle Pieters. I’m going to try liveblogging some of what she’s got to say. Veerle’s talk is called The Experimental Zone and it’s all about…
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Whitney Hess: Design Principles — The Philosophy of UX
The second speaker at this mornings An Event Apart in Boston is Whitney Hess. Here goes with the liveblogging… Whitney’s talk is about design principles. As a consultant, she spends a lot of time talking…
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Jeffrey Zeldman: What Every Web Designer Should Know — A Better You At What You Do
I’m at An Event Apart in Boston where Jeffrey Zeldman is about to kick things off. I figured I’d try my hand at a little bit of good ol’ fashioned liveblogging… Jeffrey’s talk is called…
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Good morning, Boston!
Aerial view of Boston’s Back Bay and Prudential area from 36th floor of the Marriott. Good morning, Boston! | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Nominations open for the 2011 .net Awards
SUGGEST YOUR FAVORITE sites, apps and people and celebrate the best of the web. Nominations for the 13th .net Awards are now open at http://www.thenetawards.com. We want you to help us find 2011’s best of…
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Big Web Show Episode No. 47: Foodspotting Founder Alexa Andrzejewski
FOODSPOTTING FOUNDER ALEXA ANDRZEJEWSKI (@ladylexy) is our guest in Episode No. 47 of The Big Web Show, to be recorded in front of a live internet audience on Thursday, April 28, at 3:00 PM Eastern…
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“Mobile” versus “Small Screen”
As we try to become more responsive with our designs, a lot of attention has been focused on providing “mobile” styles. We’ve all been adding viewport meta tags to our templates and @media screen and…
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Adactio: Journal—Content First
There’s a general agreement that the “mobile” user is not to be trifled with; give them the content they want as quickly as possible ‘cause they’re in a hurry. But the corollary does not hold…