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as article WebP ("Weppy") is this image format we heard much about. The format has been developed by Google and has a better compression than JPEG while it saves bytes on graphics also comparing to PNG. Unfortunately only 33% of the browsers support it yet. Time for a change… First some explanations why we need the change We are having a problem with our devices right now. As there are more and more devices … -
as article Google Currents is a digital publishing platform to create digital magazines for Android and iOS devices very easily. Within six steps you can create your own magazine with dynamic content. While you normally need to either know HTML, CSS and Javascript (Baker / Laker Framework) or have to buy expensive software like Adobe InDesign and Digital Publishing Suite Google now offers an easy way to …Some thoughts on Google Currents
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as article This is a special roundup of links and facts about webfonts. And happy easter by the way! Icon-fonts! The last months you probably have seen many of those "icon-fonts". They're just great and a huge improvement for icon usage on websites. But how in world should we know which one to use and where to get them from? Chris Coyer (CSS-Tricks) has summed up: Flat Icons and Icon fonts Here's Fontomas, …[Special Roundup #1] New webfont technologies and tools
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as article This weeks hot projects and links about web-technology, digital publishing and other inspiring stuff. Video from Matt Wilcox about responsive design and responsive images: link to vimeo German presentation by Jens Grochtdreis about backend, frontend and why it should be developed separately. Of course, HTML is simple but at least the environment isn't. We have thousands of devices, lots of crappy …[Weekly Roundup] Links & Technologies #4
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as article Yesterday I shouted about extJS and you might have seen me shouting about my loved MODX CMS recently. I was asked by several people what I use as CMS instead of MODX. Answer is: none. I am searching for the perfect. Let me explain… My first choice is MODX as a CMS. It is so easy to develop a website with it and I only get the output I want. But there are some severe problems I have with it: Some …The perfect CMS?
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as article MODX CMS started to use extJS when developing MODX Revolution. The whole backend uses it. Because it's super-easy to build a huge backend interface with the framework, they are totally stuck with it. The problem with it is, that extJS is big and unhandy. So when I started to use MODX 2.0.0pl first, I recognized that the backend is gorgeous. It was easy to handle as a user and for a CMS backend it …Why I really learned to hate extJS
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as article This weeks hot projects and links about web-technology, digital publishing and other inspiring stuff. Super impressive video about a drawing with 3.2mio ink dots: link to vimeo Harry Roberts shared his thought of CSS best practice on github. I shared on Google+ and got these answers. Cutter.js is a javascript that adds ellipsis or cuts text without destroying html and content: Cutter.js For a …[Weekly Roundup] Links & Technologies #3
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as article This weeks hot projects and links about web-technology, digital publishing and other inspiring stuff. I'll start with a personal concern – responsive images. Matthew Wilcox is one of the active members of the responsive images working group in the W3C where I am part of, too. But we recently experienced many problems which are explained on his blog: Impending problems with authoring …[Weekly Roundup] Links & Technologies #2
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as article This article summarizes the probably best tablet magazines so far. I might have missed one, then please provide the link via comment to this article. If you search for cool iPad magazines you might buy these ones here. They all are very cool magazines and worth the price they cost. The pictures shown here are just screens of the current issue and might be outdated directly after publishing this …The probably best iPad Magazines so far
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as article This week's hot projects and links you must read. Nicolas Gallagher (@necolas) describes what his famous normalize.css does and how it works: http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-normalize-css/ Matthew Wilcox (@MattWilcox) explains how to preserve vertical rythm with CSS and jQuery on his .net-Magazine article: http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/preserving-vertical-rhythm-css-and-jquery Chromium …[Weekly Roundup] Links & Technologies #1
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as article This article describes why you cannot target your folio / your articles in your folio within iOS with a simple URL-scheme. "Is there anyway to attache an .ics (ical appointment) to a link in the Digital Publishing Suite?" by Anonymous I don’t think so. If possible, try to make it in a webcontent and let the iPad decide what to do. by Johannes Henseler iOS offers the possibility to use …[Adobe DPS] (not) target your .folio with external links on iOS
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as article Already half a year ago I asked in the WHATWG and W3C mailing list about responsive images. Since then quite a few discussions sprout but if we reflect what happened, we can sum up: nothing. For those who don't know what this is all about, I'll explain quickly. Since we've been able to build "responsive" websites using CSS3's @media-queries to fit the styles of a website to device-screen …What happened to responsive assets?
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as article »MODX Boilerplate« is a free HTML5-template for rapid website development with the MODX Revolution CMF. The template set had been developed for a fast, technically correct setup of a HTML5-frontend. By using it you can focus on more important things… „MODX Boilerplate “ is a free HTML5-template for rapid website development with the MODX Evolution & Revolution CMF. It's based on the …Free Framework: »MODX Boilerplate«
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as article Some of today's websites put us back to 1994 while loading. This is due to some ignorance of the technical behavior of current browser engines and the fact that nearly any of these sites uses social plugins written in Javascript or wrong jQuery usage. Nowadays it's very easy for everyone to build a website based on a CMS. If you take a look on Wordpress, you'll find a huge variety of …How-to improve performance of your website
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as article In the meantime, quite a number of different web services have become available, making it possible to display different font types even in your browser. It's a feature web designers have been wishing for ever since. It was only possible to use some default fonts (Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Courier) in the past – and not even then you could be sure which font type visitors were displayed. By now, …Web fonts – A review
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