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Fun fact: Cloud Four’s design team really digs SVG. Our enthusiasm for the image format accumulated gradually over many months, thanks in large part to Sara Soueidan’s tireless documentation of its most mysterious features…
It was mid-afternoon on a Wednesday when my team started finding strange bugs in older versions of Internet Explorer. At first these appeared to be unrelated… until we noticed seemingly random chunks of style appeared…
Although my favorite projects will always be those that allow us to re-evaluate a user experience from the ground up, sometimes that isn’t realistic. That’s where Responsive Retrofitting comes in: The process of making…
Most of the time when people refer to responsive images, they are referring to inline images, not CSS images. This is because before <picture> and srcset there were no good solutions for inline responsive images.
This happens to me over and over: I have a multi-column grid of tiles, each with varying heights. This means the bottom of certain rows can appear jagged and difficult to scan visually:…
Even before smartphones came along and dashed any hope for a 960-pixel-wide web, designers and organizations have struggled with the challenge of prioritizing and composing content that scrolls. Our screens act like…
On a recent responsive design project, we wanted an off-canvas menu for narrow viewports. We tried some of the off-canvas menu libraries out there. But, being very particular about design and performance, we ended…
It’s easy to take the “masking” of passwords (replacing characters with ••••) for granted. As Luke Wroblewski documented last November, this practice increases login failures while providing little-to-no security benefit. Here’s the alternative Luke…
Recently, Cloud Four dev Matt Gifford built a slick, responsive off-canvas navigation enhancement for a project (we’ll be releasing the core code shortly, so keep an eye out for Matt’s post about that!). The…
My previous post on CSS Media Queries kicked off quite a bit of conversation. I wanted to follow up on a few points that have been made and a couple of…