April 14, 2015
Niels Matthijs wrote about the coverage of Spartan when it was released a couple of weeks ago. [To see] other browsers vendors left largely uncriticized for the crap they’re pulling is not good at all. It’s the exact same lenience that led to the disaster that was IE6 and it made our job that much […]
Quick Notes
April 9, 2015
Both the Verge and Mashable have published reviews of the Apple Watch. The Verge review is 8.2Mb with a tad under 500 requests; Mashable’s review is 40Mb with 700 requests. To be fair, they mitigate the effect through lazy loading.
March 29, 2015
The second day of CSSConf Australia ’15 took place last Friday. The day started with Sara encouraging developers to switch to SVG rather than unsemantic CSS hacks, and finished with a call for the open-source community to welcome designers by Una. Here are my notes from day two.
General
March 26, 2015
CSSConf Australia ’15 is on at the moment. The first day started with Matt reminding us to consider the human element of design, and finished with Ben showing how animation can be used to cheat time and add delight. Here are my notes from day one.
March 20, 2015
I had the pleasure of speaking at Web Directions Respond yesterday. It was a great opportunity to listen to designers and developers from both Australia and internationally. I took notes throughout the day, some of which you will have seen if you follow me on Twitter. The full set are in bullet point form below. […]
March 11, 2015
Over the next couple of weeks I’m looking forward to using Noter Live to live tweet a couple of conferences. I’ll be running it locally while at Respond and CSSConfAU to minimise network connections over conference wifi or 4G. I’m using Noter Live as it will make it a cinch to convert the tweet stream […]
Notes / Quick Notes
March 5, 2015
I like a much reduced set of body classes when coding up a WordPress theme. Two template types, two main classes. Oh, and I put it on the HTML element too. To call my coding opinionated is somewhat of an understatement.
Code
March 2, 2015
As I work on patterns for my site redesign, I generated two templates without consideration for microformats. The two templates I created were for a WordPress archive template and an article/page template. Microformats add structured data to a web site. Using microformats allow machines reading a site to know find information such as the: page […]
February 26, 2015
A very nice page for testing nth-child selectors by Paul Maloney
February 17, 2015
The Filament Group continues to do great work: Font Loading Revisited with Font Events