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as Article I missed last weeks reading list due to some outage of my site. I apologize and hope to compensate with this list which is even longer. Enjoy! Last week: The Nitty Gritty is a new frontend development resource with high-level articles created by fellows @drublic and @hellokahlil. jQuery - The little things - 2 by @rodneyrehm tells you about JavaScript security and some useful jQuery helpers Think … -
as Article Yesterday Rupert Murdoch announced the end of 'The Daily' for the iPad. Media gone wild but actually the failure is no surprise. Rupert Murdoch is a clever man who invested a lot of money in his tablet product very early. He was one of the men who did understand that a tablet magazine cannot be a print-derivate and also costs money you won't get back after just a few months. Nevertheless he now …You wonder why 'The Daily' failed?
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as Article After another week not maintaining my list (I apologize!) here are a bunch of new and interesting links. Offline First shares some thoughts why you should decouple your webapp from the server and other online dependencies Again W3C, WHATWG and developers are in a fight about a new element. After picture it is now about the <main>-element a rather sad story for web standards as this element …Reading List #26
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as Article 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 …Should conference coverage be free for everyone?
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as Article 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 …Reading List #25
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as Article 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… & …Reading List #24
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as Article 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 …I am a high performance blog
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as Article 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 …Update on responsive images
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as Article 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/52161889Reading List #23
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as Article 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 …Reading List #22
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as Article 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 …Reading List #21
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as Article 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 …Notes on Fronteers 2012
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as Article 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 …CreateTheWeb London
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as Article 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 …Reading List #20
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as Article 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 …Reading list #19
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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, …Late Reading List #18
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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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