http://www.mattwilcox.net Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:14:59 GMT Feed43 Proxy/1.0 (www.feed43.com) 360 139248362cd54e9460cedc616a06bbf8 A proposal to browser vendors; reliable feature detection via SPDY

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With Firefox and Chrome now supporting the SPDY protocol, can we now revive the idea of browsers sending reliable and accurate device capability headers to the server, without the latency penalty HTTP inflicted on us?continue reading

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]]> 996920ceea5edf1bd15f9b31a7c81a9c The responsive design process

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This post is a primer for designers looking to get a handle on how to approach designing for responsive websites. How does Responsive Design impact the actual technical and visual design process?continue reading

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]]> b176fc7d4d36fabadaeacaa8f7a69569 Canon are struggling

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The news that Cannon are struggling doesn't come as a surprise to me. I get the impression that Canon as a company just want to f*** me, where as Nikon and Apple (as examples) care about customers. My advise to Cannon would be this:continue reading

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]]> 2184aec5004beac089eeb491b4095664 A week with the www-style mailing list

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The W3C communicate using mailing lists (you may need to look up what one of those is). I decided to take my CSS thoughts direct to the people that actually write the CSS Specifications by joining the list and posting a few thoughts. Here's what I covered in the first week:continue reading

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]]> 4c621833cc6f625d75c61f87ac97ee91 Choosing device sizes to support for your responsive designs

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How to go about choosing which device sizes to support for your responsive designs.continue reading

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]]> 6a9b78f4f87a8443c0633ad7c3b811cb CSS3 wish-list: blending modes

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I've been thinking about how that'd need to be implemented, and I think it'd have to be as part of the CSS Colour Module, as well as having a stand-alone property. Here are my use-cases with expected syntaxcontinue reading

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]]> a700069846cd4a810117e5b8606867cf Webkit internal optimisations could be pushed to a new feature?

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There are some clever optimisations that have been made in the CSS selector engine for WebKit. I'm wondering if that could be exposed to an author for more direct control...continue reading

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Mon, 2nd Jan 2012 at 22:00 UTC

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]]> 4d65878435ea7ede2563aa720cffb517 Skeuomorphic design vs modern and/or futuristic design.

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Skeuomorphic design emulates real world objects in software. But is it a good idea or a bad idea to take this approach?continue reading

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]]> d3fa60fb2c82ac9f0362de463b8afdcd Getting started with web development

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As seasoned developer we sometimes lose touch with the basics. Someone asks us how to get into what it is we do, and we cast our minds back and realise "non of the resources I used to learn are relevant anymore". So, here's my attempt to bring together a few modern versions of the stuff I used to learn how to do web-development.continue reading

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]]> 3244b89b0b509b01188a273df3327ee5 Adaptive Images for Responsive Designs

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An in-depth look at my Adaptive Images technique, showing how we can serve an appropriate size of image to web devices without altering our <img> markup.continue reading

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Sat, 31st Dec 2011 at 12:41 UTC

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