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as article My weekly reading list no. 18 is out. A bit later than normal but still worth reading. JavaScript Basics – here is where you learn to understand jQuery, JavaScript and the priciples of coding JS Fronteers 2012 JamSession: I will talk about responsive images and how you will be able to use it. So come, join for free and drink some beer with us. By the way, there will be awesome talks by Rodney, … -
as article After one week of pause I'm quickly pushing another edition of my weekly link tipps before my birthday tomorrow. Here we go: Testing tools and suites Modernizr 2.6.2 is out and has some new things: position sticky, CSS's @supports, input[form], bugfixes and improvements Firefox 15 developer tools update with amazing new features: make screenshots of selected elements, view media queries inside …17: Testing tools
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as article In Firefox 16, Mozilla added new functionality to their own developer tools. This is amazing as these tools hadn't had much features yet. media-query view The new cool thing is the media-query view where you can view your website in different resolutions to test your CSS3 @media-queries. This is especially great as Firefox only resizes the website's viewport not the whole browser window. Why this …Firefox 16 developer tools update
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as article This friday we're talking about how to become a better web-person and some technical stuff! Being a better web citizen Chris Heilmann posted a blog entry this week because he is annoyed by the going on rant on social media platforms about products, events and persons. He writes why ranting hurts people and doesn't do anything good to anyone. Finally after reading this blog hopefully some more …[Weekly] How to do better
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as article New things arrived the web. This linklist is mostly about them. Medium.com is a writing platform founded by the founder of twitter. He thinks it is time for a social writing network. Some say it's a clone of tumblr, some say, it's a big new thing. For me, it looks nice ;) Branch.com is another new service about networking. It is made for talking about specific links / topics, generating a …15 Social, Shadow, CSS3-Layout
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as article Performance matters. Responsiveness too and style is important. Check out how you could solve the problem of DOM replacement. The best web-performance links of Q2/2012 How to interpret a waterfall chart to understand website performance Why your JavaScript Code might be slow and how you can improve your site's JS performance Firefox for Android is here since a couple of weeks. Now we even got …Links #14
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as article Responsive images are finally coming over the W3C's official HTML5 specification. Mathew Marquis, chair of the W3C Community Group "Responsive Images" has some news for all of us… After months of waiting, discussion, problems, restrictions we now have an official statement by Mathew Marquis: Paul Cotton, one of the HTML WG Chairs, has arranged for me to work with several members of the HTMLWG on …picture and srcset is coming
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as article After iPad-magazines established now since over one year, it is time to get better. This is what some magazines already did when it is about their interaction design and the readability. But there is one major lack: performance and size of the magazines. Publishers make smaller magazines! After iPad-magazines established now since over one year, it is time to get better. This is what some …Publishers make smaller magazines!
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as article Many people feared it and love it: The point when Apple releases its new OS. It always is the same game, you don't really know if Adobe apps would work fine on the system after upgrading. I installed Mountain Lion which took me 45mins including download. Sorry, I've got FTTH here and downloading such large files is fun and my SSD installed the system in about 15min. Now to the facts: OS X …Can I update to Apple Mountain Lion with Adobe CS6?
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as article Now this week was full of work, full of news and awesome things. Let's round-up. Reflection 1.4 beta2 is ready to download. The version features iOS6 and Mountain Lion support, and will feature some more features later on in upcoming betas. Want to load TypeKit async and non-blocking? Then here is a github repo how to solve these problems and enhance the webfont experience on your website. Get …13th roundup of the week
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as article Have you ever heard history-stories that are not that boring as in school? Then you might be excited by my first link of the week. 60 years in 60 poems on thespace.org „Do you remember the Queen's Coronation? The Kennedy assassination? Beatniks and hippies? The Miners' Strike and Greenham Common? The Great Storm and the Ash Cloud?“ Tobias Schneider published a draft for a new way to deal with …Links of the week
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as article When Adobe published Adobe Proto I was thrilled. They promised a wireframe / prototyping tool that makes it easy to set up wireframes for websites on an iPad. The concept indeed is super simple but the app itself has many bugs. And because of these bugs, Adobe Proto currently won't work for many people. It may work for some projects and some people but for me, it wouldn't. And here is why: Pixel …What's wrong with Adobe Proto
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as article Harry Roberts was the first one publishing his coding style for HTML/CSS, Hans-Christian Reinl followed the call to write down its own and now I will share my style, too. I really should mention that this is only how I work. It doesn't mean by far that you should follow my style here from this day on but maybe I do some things you might use yourself in future projects. Please let me know if you …My Coding Style and Guidelines
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as article This week there is a very extraordinary ship in my link list. Why? Because it is so crazy you have to see it. But some webdev and DPS stuff is also attached :) This is Wally, the mega yacht. Check out their website to see more awesome boats: Now this presentation shows you a summary on what is responsive webdesign. It really is worth it! Improved developer tooling, read an see the video. How to …11 The crazy weekly
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as article I recently held a talk at Deutsche Publishing-Konferenz 2012 in Munich about Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite. Now the conference organizers (you might know I am part of it) published the video of the session. The presentation slides are build in, so just enjoy it. Only requirement is you understand German as it was a German conference. Digital Publishing-Suite für Profis from Deutsche …Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for Pro's
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as article There has been some discussion about social media buttons on websites. Because most of the buttons are crap by code-design and can break your website it is worth considering to remove them. As Oliver Reichenstein by iA wrote last week, it is not worth it embedding the social media buttons. Here is why I removed them now: I already removed Facebook Button several months ago because the servers by …Why I removed the Social Media Buttons
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as article Adobe Edge (currently in 6th preview release) is a new product by Adobe to create HTML5-animations and interactive content natively in HTML5/JavaScript. Here is a tutorial how to use it for the Adobe Digital Publishing-Suite. Since preview 6 of Adobe Edge you are able to directly export your Adobe Edge animations for Adobe DPS. Since it is only HTML it was possible to easily use it ever since but …Creating interactive Overlays for Adobe DPS with Edge
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as article Right after the DPK12 I had some days to organize my normal life. Only several days later, I travelled to Düsseldorf where the IDUG Rhein/Ruhr gave the kick-off to the CS6 IDUG DE-Tour. I travelled to most of the German chapters of the InDesign User groups and supported them to present the brand new Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud. Along with Ingo Eichel and Markus Jasker from Adobe the …Creative Cloud - Suite 6 IDUG DE-Tour 2012
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as article My last blog post has been published several weeks ago. I apologize the delay and want to report what happened. But first I want to say thank you to all my supporters and people helped me making all the great things recently! Most of you may have already heard that I have been co-organizing a big conference in Germany: The "Deutsche Publishing-Konferenz 2012". Last year I started to think about …Deutsche Publishing-Konferenz 2012
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as article Yesterday I found out that the WHATWG has failed once again. That seems nothing new to some people because there were several issues with the WHATWG recently but here is another topic where the WHATWG completely seem to have failed: Responsive images. Mathew Marquis posted a new topic in our W3C responsive images group. This blew me away because he wrote that in WHATWG IRC chat they were …Why the WHATWG somehow sucks!
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