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    Should conference coverage be free for everyone?

    Recently I often had discussion wether conference video coverage should be available for free regardless one attended to the conference or not. Time to ask you! I would be pleased if you spread the word and share this post. I want to make a real survey here with enough votes to be representative for everyone. Until now I received by far not enough votes yet. When I reach at least 1000 votes, I …
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    Reading List #25

    The 25th anniversary of the Reading List on my blog will be just another… list! Nothing special, just the facts of the week. The planning minutes of RICG – feedback from TPAC, improving srcset, file bugs, complete website, Drupal8 launch Fixing the ApplicationCache with an iFrame – FT tells how to do that. Crazy stuff! Reinventing the Web Kill the password! because it's unsafe. Excellent and long …
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    Reading List #24

    after a short break of one week, the Reading List is back! Responsive Images at #TPAC 2012 in Lyon, presented by Marcos Cacares and Yoav Weiss: https://vimeo.com/52789903 Roundup video of TestTheWebForward in Paris 2012. Read the blog entry by Adobe Team, too. https://vimeo.com/52914691 This is the real world that browsers & users deal with. mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-centra… & …
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    I am a high performance blog

    With my new layout I have a high performance web blog now. With just a hand full of requests and nearly now assets it is super fast. Roundup: removed typekit (saves nearly ~250kb) and ~8 requests, using "Helvetica Neue" removed unnecessary content (social blabla) removed comments removed all images (except content images on blog entries) Now I have a blog using 9.81kb of space, 5 requests and a …
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    Update on responsive images

    After being quiet for several weeks here on my blog (except the weekly reading lists) I want to share some of the recent things that have happened on responsive images. There has been quite some progress since the last article. The W3C ResponsiveImagesCommunityGroup lead by Mat Marquis has grown to 168 participants as of today. It is great to have so much support and the support by group members …
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    Reading List #23

    I'm in rush, have to catch my train to Paris so just the raw list today :) Make your own GitHub with GitLab ResponsiveImages.org is live and covers the main parts of the spec, the issues and the use-cases. Check it out! Your own Crowdfunding with SelfStarter The Future of Markdown rvl.io - ya know reveal.js? This is the online editor and platform Joshua Davis at BTPlay: https://vimeo.com/52161889
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    Reading List #22

    Another week, another list. I stumbled upon several links that are very interesting (at least for me). So check it out! Kirby CMS has been released in new versions. Your mobile site is slower than you think Simulate different network conditions with Network Link Conditioner for Max OS X Responsive image proposals gather pace on netmag How to build good HTML5 Form validation: CONSTRAINT …
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    Reading List #21

    This week was stuffed with great content on the web. I still have about 35 tabs opened in my browser to read on. So this reading list will be big. But as every week the web changes and evolves fast! First I want to promote an event here because it is in my personal interest to get as many interested people there as possible… Help Test The Web Forward! Hans wrote about the last weeks stuffed with …
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    Notes on Fronteers 2012

    I wrote some notes at the Fronteers Conference 2012 and I now want to share them with you. They are made analogue so they are just photos here. If you want to know more, please look at the Schedule. note of session Adapting to Responsive Design by Mark Boulton note of session The New And Improved Developer Toolbelt by Addy Osmani note of session A Pixel is not a Pixel by Peter-Paul Koch note of …
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    CreateTheWeb London

    Last Tuesday I was invited to join the Adobe CreateTheWeb tour in London. Adobe just announced and released a bunch of promising Edge suite tools for web designers and developers so I was expecting a great event to come… And I had not been disappointed by Adobe. After my re-eye flight to London I met Jay and Sven in Heathrow. Rodney, Hans and Christian were already at the venue when we arrived at …
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    Reading List #20

    After being on several conferences the last days I have some new links for you this week. The first is about the Adobe Create The Web tour where I actually was in London this Monday. The netmagazine just published an article where devs respond to Adobe edge Suite and state what's cool. This is fresh stuff. Just today Phil Hawksworth held his talk "I can smell your CMS" at the Fronteers Conference …
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    Reading list #19

    After one week break from the weekly newslist here it is again. I was at FromTheFront last week which is a totally awesome italian frontend conference, so I couldn't manage to summarize the week last time. This time I have cool stuff for you: Your CSS is a mess tells us how to write CSS in a better way. Told by the master himself – Jonathan Snook The Web Aesthetic by Paul Robert Lloyd is an …
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    Late Reading List #18

    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, …
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    17: Testing tools

    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 …
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    Firefox 16 developer tools update

    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 …
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    [Weekly] How to do better

    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 …
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    15 Social, Shadow, CSS3-Layout

    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 …
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    Links #14

    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 …
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    picture and srcset is coming

    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 …
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    Publishers make smaller magazines!

    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 …