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Almost every month we have great topics and speakers at Mobile Portland, but every so often a meeting comes along that I personally cannot wait to see. This coming Monday, November 12th, we have Amazon here to talk… More

Developing on the mobile (or pan-device) web is hard. Maybe too hard. Yeah, kind of too hard sometimes. My days are spent chasing down the vital new frameworks (maybe not so vital, really, in retrospect), the newest incremental browser releases,… More

I’ve recently had the great fortune to preview both Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Karen McGrane’s upcoming books on Content Strategy—Content Everywhere and Content Strategy for Mobile respectively. They’ve reminded me of something that got lost in the… More

When the kind folks at UIE asked if I was interested in conducting a virtual seminar with them, mobile first responsive design is the first topic that came to mind. It’s something everyone should be doing, but few… 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

For a few months now, I’ve been puzzling over the question of how to pick responsive images breakpoints. It has become a koan to me—no more answerable than the sound of one hand clapping. And as long as I’m haunted… More

30 Jan 2013 — This is not a stable specification. It will likely change. Do not use it in a production environment. See Peter’s comment below. 30 Jan 2013 — Per Nicholas Shanks’s suggestion, I’ve removed examples for non-WebKit… More

John Gruber mused today on why there is a disparity between the marketshare of Android and its share of web traffic. He theorized that “an awful lot of Android smartphones don’t really get used as smartphones”. That may be… More