Four years ago in Beijing the world was well on the way to becoming “social”, however due to the fact that it was still an emerging trend and that it was also held deep inside a internet exclusion zone (not really, but you know what I mean) means that the London Olympics were the first true social games.
Author: Javery
CSS3 Image Filters
Everyone loves instagram, and before instagram was around everyone loved to use the image filters on their point and shoot cameras because lets face it, who doesn’t look better in Sepia or Black and White.
HTML5 & CSS3 Darwin Workshop tomorrow
If you haven’t booked your place in tomorrows HTML5 and CSS3 Workshop with John Allsopp you still have time (albeit not much time).
Mobify.js JavaScript for client-side adaptation
Mobify.js is a framework for client-side adaptation of any site to any device. It consists of four key parts: a JavaScript snippet that does device detection and bootstraps the adaptation. This is known as the Mobify.js tag and needs to go right after the head tag. the tag loads the Mobify.js payload file that contains… Continue reading Mobify.js JavaScript for client-side adaptation
The Web Ahead #29: Smart Responsive Web Design Implementation with Scott Jehl
Responsive web design creates a new set of development demands. How should we best implement complex sites to load quickly and meet the needs of a wide range of devices? Scott Jehl joins Jen Simmons to talk about the South Street toolset and other Filament Group discoveries of best practices. Link
http://lab.hakim.se/meny/
Meny A three dimensional and space efficient menu concept. Move your mouse to the left edge of this page — or swipe in from the left edge if you’re on a touch device — to expand the menu. CSS 3D transforms are used for the transition effect and JavaScript is used to track mouse/touch movement.… Continue reading http://lab.hakim.se/meny/
Disable preloading on HTML5 Videos
The preload attribute informs the browser whether or not the video data should begin downloading as soon as the video tag is loaded. It gets even better than that, you can chose how much preloading is done with the options auto, metadata, and none.
Responsive Design Podcast in the UK
Two weeks ago I received an email from the British Tech Network who were looking for a guest speaker for a podcast on Responsive Design and someone suggested they get in touch with the curator of RWD Weekly. It turns out that while in London I worked with the organiser of the podcast and from there on it was all roses and raspberry cakes.
Should You Keep Ideas To Yourself? by ZURB
If you don’t know who Zurb is then I highly recommend that you head over to their website and check out the Foundation 3.0.
Today they posted about sharing ideas…
Exoplanet Diagram from XKCD
XKCD have come up with another awesome comic reviewing the planets that we have identified. If you take a look at the planets in our solar system you’ll notice that we have two medium/smallish planets. That’s Jupiter and Saturn. They’re freaking massing. To give you a better idea just how big they are take a… Continue reading Exoplanet Diagram from XKCD