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I swear there’s some kind of quantum entanglement going on between Ethan ’s brain and mine. Demonstrating spooky action at a distance, just as I was jotting down my half-assed caveat related to responsive design, he publishes a sharp and erudite explanation of what responsive design is and isn’t attempting to do. He uses fancy learnin’ words and everything: When I’m speaking or writing about responsive design, I try to underline something with great, big, Sharpie-esque strokes: responsive design is not about “designing for mobile.” But it’s not about “designing for the desktop,” either. Rather, it’s about adopting a more flexible, device-agnostic approach to designing for the web. … Read the rest here

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If you think your site’s content doesn’t matter, then you are sorely mistaken. Granted, the argument for content strategy has always mystified me. Not because I think we can do without content strategy, we can’t, but I’m amazed that we still have to make the argument. Folks care very much about appearances; what their websites look like means the world to them. But why don’t they care just as much about what their sites are saying? … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Feedback Details in the Basecamp Mobile Experience : This write-up shows some smart thinking by the 37signals team in regards to Basecamp Mobile . If the mobile web is ever to compete against the Objective-C web , this is how mobile web experiences need to be created. … Read the rest here

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Hiring: Mobile Web Developer at WillowTree Apps : Virginia-based WillowTree Apps has launched an impressive 70+ apps since 2008 for the iOS, Blackberry, Windows 7, and Android platforms. I was fairly impressed as I flipped through their portfolio. If you know HTML5/CSS3 inside and out, have a solid understanding of JavaScript, and have experience working with at least one high-level, server-side language, you’ll contribute to making their portfolio even more impressive. Position is in Charlottesville, and relocation assistance is offered for the right candidate. … Read the rest here

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TUAW: Verizon iPhone News : TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) has some good coverage of today’s Verizon iPhone announcement and related stories — the mobile hotspot feature for up to 5 devices , why it won’t handle data and voice simultaneously , subtle changes to the antenna and button placement , and (linked from the last article) why some existing cases won’t fit the new Verizon iPhone . … Read the rest here

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TUAW: Verizon iPhone News : TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) has some good coverage of today’s Verizon iPhone announcement and related stories — the mobile hotspot feature for up to 5 devices , why it won’t handle data and voice simultaneously , subtle changes to the antenna and button placement , and (linked from the last article) why some existing cases won’t fit the new Verizon iPhone . … Read the rest here

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An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc. : Thomas Hawk: In your letter to your employees you say, it

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Now that the Shelf Theme is finally launched, I wanted to write up some of the process and challenges that The Theme Foundry and I faced in it’s creation. I’d started with the intention of dribbling everything, but constantly found that I wanted to show more than 400×300px, so I started documenting the process in a Flickr Set instead. This post will flesh those out further. Creation I had a very clear picture in my head of how it should look, so my first step was to create what I call a ‘ HTML Sketch”: This is where I set up basic text and positioned boxes to make sure the layout was actually possible – a series of horizontally arranged ‘cards’ on a shelf, where the card height collapsed when the viewport was too small and the cards didn’t wrap. … Read the rest here

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It’s well past time for me to spend a few minutes reflecting on An Event Apart in 2010. In two words: absocrazifreakiperfluously staggerblasticating . [I totally stole those .

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I was in Dublin recently to give a little talk at the 24 Hour Universal Design Challenge 2010 . It was an interesting opportunity to present my own perspective on web design to an audience that consisted not just of web designers, but designers from many different fields. I gave an overview of the past, present and future of web design as seen from where I’m standing. You can take a look at the slides but my usual caveat applies: they won’t make much sense out of context. There is, however, a transcript of the talk on the way (the whole thing was being captioned live on the day). Towards the end of my spiel, I pointed to Tim Berners-Lee’s recent excellent article in Scientific American, Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality : The primary design principle underlying the Web

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In the world of web development, there are many choices that are commonly presented as true or false, black and white, Boolean, binary values, when in fact they exist in a grey goo of quantum uncertainty. Here are just three of them… Accessible and inaccessible Oh, would that it were so simple! If accessibility were a “feature” that could be controlled with the flick of a switch, or the completion of a checklist, front-end web development would be a whole lot easier. Instead it’s a tricky area with no off-the-shelf solutions and where the answer to almost every question is “it depends.” Solving an accessibility issue for one set of users may well create problems for another. Like I said: tricky. Documents and applications Remember when we were all publishing documents on the web, but then there was that all-changing event and then we all started making web apps instead? No… Read the rest here

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My thoughts regarding Instagram as Flickr

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In yesterday

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Modernizr on the Server-Side : James Pearce: The current vogue seems to be to do as much [adjusting web content] as possible on the client-side: media queries, progressive enhancement, adding CSS body classes, and so on

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Why Windows Phone 7 Will Make Android Look Chaotic : Brian X. Chen, writing for Wired: With brand new test facilities, Microsoft is taking on the duty of ensuring that touchscreens and sensors are calibrated properly, for example, and each hardware model undergoes software stress tests to catch bugs and system errors (see picture above). The end result should be getting very close to the same OS on smartphones made by different manufacturers. That in turn could mitigate the issue of fragmentation for third-party developers: They can effectively code the same app for a large party of devices without much tweaking. This approach positions Microsoft somewhere in between Apple

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In Which I Film Myself Saying

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On an impulse, I decided to buy the Bluetoothed Apple Wireless keyboard for use with the iPad. I felt there were times where I would want to create content without wanting to pull out my laptop and still have the flexibility of putting the keyboard away to enjoy the usual benefits of the iPad. I’m sitting in the middle seat of a six-hour flight home and thought, "this would be a good time to give this a try"— especially with blog post ideas popping to mind. As it turns out, the experience is quite nice. … Read the rest here

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In just two short weeks I

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Less Framework : A CSS framework for cross-device layouts, built on the principles in Ethan Marcotte

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$0.99 Today Only: Mobile Web Design (2007) : Grab a PDF copy of my book, Mobile Web Design , for just $0.99. Offer expires at the end of today (Aug 30). View a preview on Lulu or on your iPad in the iBookstore (iBooks app), and read the reviews on Amazon . … Read the rest here