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June 2011
Power Users Don’t Care for Pretty Interfaces
They use the command line—and 128 MB of RAM, or less, will often do.
On the Subject of Me
I admit. I’ve never been a web professional. Never actively participated in any discussions on best design techniques. I have mostly been lurking around. I’ve created for the web, but merely on a personal level. And yet I’ve been around long enough to have witnessed the switch from sites that worked in broken browsers to [...]
On the Way to the One Web
Andy Budd’s eagerly awaiting the first big corporate site embracing responsive web design, and so am I. It’s always somewhat surprised me that it’s taking this long, ‘especially when you consider the relatively small number of app consumers, compared to the number of people who access the web through mobile devices.’ Yes, there are plenty [...]
The Right Way Forward
Still wondering why the web will eventually outrun any device-specific apps that are merely presenting content? The answer’s extremely similar to what Mr Zeldman himself wrote on web standards in To Hell with Bad Browsers, now over ten years ago: It’s about the separation of presentation from structure, which will allow us to do amazing [...]
Responsive Web Design, the Book
Remember when web design practices shifted from the use of tables (and inline, often browser-specific JavaScript) to the use of (more) semantic markup and CSS (i.e., web standards)? The popularity of small (and touch-sensitive) displays has now brought with it a similar shift: away from the large-screen-centered and often fixed-width layouts, and toward what was [...]