Last night I watched Grand Designs where a guy went £90k over his £160k budget during his house build specifically because he kept adding the latest and greatest stuff as he built the house. Triple glazing went to quadruple glazing, cladding tripled, the boiler was a lower power state of the art blah blah blah.… Continue reading Transparent Solar Panels Are “The Wave of the Future”
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The Pain of Duplicate Scripts
Duplicate scripts on a page means multiple downloads (for Firefox) and a performance hit. You can help this by following Facebooks lead and opting out of an async load if the script element is already in place with if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} Visit Link
“How to Make a Performance Budget”
A detailed article from Dan Mall about what we mean when we say performance budget and how do you go about setting them. Visit Link
Adobe Edge Reflow | Edge Tools & Services | Adobe & HTML
Adobe are releasing their next suite of products and some of the focus is on responsive design. The Reflow tool kind of reminds me of an existing grid tool that allows you to set responsive layouts, however this is a little more hi-fidelity. Since the release of Adobe Shadow I’ve started to admire the Adobe… Continue reading Adobe Edge Reflow | Edge Tools & Services | Adobe & HTML
Responsive Measure: A jQuery plugin for responsive typography
Responsive Measure is a simple script that allows you to pass in a selector (ideally the container where your primary content will go) which generates the ideal font size needed to produce the ideal measure for your text. http://jbrewer.github.com/Responsive-Measure/
CSS-Only Sticky Headers for Tables, Using ‘position: sticky’
What’s neat about this is that you get the effect of the static table headers by introducing a few lines of css. No jQuery, no weird css that breaks the semantic intent of the content, and no javascript handlers built off scroll events. It’s not ready for prime time just yet, but it’s worth keeping… Continue reading CSS-Only Sticky Headers for Tables, Using ‘position: sticky’
Mobile Navigation Icons
http://timkadlec.com/2012/08/mobile-navigation-icons/