Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
TL;DR : not because this is easy but because it is less hard than the other way; 3rd order content is dealt with Glengarry Glen Ross style; “Mobile First†Design is “Good Designâ€. Continue reading Why Mobile First for Responsive Web Design
TL;DR Current CSS Grid frameworks lead to HTML Class Vomit. Using SASS Mixin blocks Bourbon Neat fixes that, and allows practical Unobtrusive CSS, for clear(er) markup. Continue reading Unobtrusive CSS becomes practical and Neat.
TL;DR This is my journey, shared so you can learn from the mistakes I’ve made, from HTML vomit to clean(er) responsive and progressive web pages, built on frameworks of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript5. Done in the hope that you aren’t making then same mistakes. Continue reading A short and personal history of building web pages.
Twitter has just rolled out (very quietly this month) new trend locations for a total of 152, up from the previous 111. That’s the “World”, 34 Countries and 117 Cities! This is all up on the Twendr Global Trend Dashboard, Continue reading Twendr and Twitter Trends – Now in 41 more Locations for 152 places
Now browser sniffing is basically a bad thing but there is still a need to fix / hack issues on older browsers, in particular Internet Explorer. Okay, almost entirely in Internet Explorer. IE6 may be -mostly- dead, but IE8 will Continue reading Doing Conditional Comments for your Internet Explorer css fixes better, with HTML top tag classes
the following code was extracted from my Mobile Ruby on Rails Web App Demo, which was intended as a very simple Mobile Ruby on Rails Web Application (Web App) which uses Ruby 1.9.2, Ruby on Rails 3.0.7 and jQuery Mobile Continue reading Detecting a Mobile Browser on the Server in your Rails app