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In July we released SimpleSlideView, a jQuery and Zepto plugin for simple, responsive sliding views (here’s a demo). In the last few months, I’ve noticed an uptick in developers emailing to ask a variation of this question:… More

GitHub introduced a new text editor called Atom last week, and reactions (at least in my Twitter feed) seem divided between fervent desire and snide disregard. For every few people shamelessly begging for invites, you’ll find one or two… More

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from our friend Dan Moore. He recently wrote a book about PhoneGap’s new command line tools. I asked him to share what it was about these… More

When I wrote Common Patterns in Styleguides, Boilerplates and Pattern Libraries back in May, I honestly didn’t know if anyone would find something as pedestrian as a spreadsheet that interesting. It was great to discover I’d at least partially… More

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three years since the publication of Ethan Marcotte’s seminal Responsive Web Design article on A List Apart.  The ideas and techniques described therein blew our minds while forcing us to drastically reconsider our design processes. More

Last year, I wrote about the challenges of picking responsive images breakpoints and how I found it a nearly unsolvable problem. It has vexed me since. But I have a new idea on how we might be able to… More

A few months ago I was tasked with finding a good solution for a client who wanted to move to responsive design, but had a web app that they needed to support as well. The question they asked is… More

Good news today that Apple CEO Tim Cook has acknowledged the problems with the iOS 6 Maps application. Now everyone is anxiously waiting on Google to release a new native version of Google Maps so they can regain their… More

Since Facebook announced their “fully native” app, some speculation has centered on the idea that Apple may have made a native app a precondition for the upcoming integration of Facebook with iOS 6. Hogwash. I doubt Apple… More

I recently did some research into the HTML that Facebook was using in the old version of its iOS app. More on that in a future post. In the meantime, I thought I’d share how to inspect what an… More