Responsive Design for Apps — Part 1
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
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
As long as I’m posting puzzles, riddle me this: what happens to the browser’s lookahead pre-parser if we find the holy grail of responsive images—an image format that works for all resolutions? What is the holy grail responsive image… More
Earlier this year I was in the Cloud Four office with my iPad, so I decided to show @grigs what we’d done about orientation change for Lucid Meetings. He looked at it, then got kind of frowny faced… More
It’s been a strange few years for the pixel, that unit we love to hate and generally blithely use anyway. First, there is the weird brain-bending device pixel versus CSS pixel math we’re all trying to do in our head… More
Hay, I wrote this in 2012! I still like the notion of the metaphorical connection between content-based sizing units (e.g. ems) and layout definitions (e.g. breakpoints). And the zooming behavior cited here was always meant more as a sidelong example… More
The new www.cloudfour.com site stretches content-first thinking to its academic extremes Whereas my personal theme for the second half of 2011 was about letting content go, 2012 seems to be the year I obsess about content: what is… More
Another big story yesterday was the fact that the NY Post is no longer letting iPad users access their web site and is instead forcing them to pay for an iPad app to read content. This has been one… More
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