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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 … -
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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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 …A chance for WebP?
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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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