Many workplaces lock down what people can and can’t do from their computer – understandably so in most cases. However, when people aren’t at work they’re free to choose what browser they use. My personal favorite, Chrome, reached a milestone and surpassed IE as the most used browser in the world on Sunday, March 18, [...]
"Wait a second," - we say that all the time, but according to a recent New York Times article, waiting a second for a web page to load is just too long. Subconsciously, human beings don’t like to wait and according to Google, load speeds longer than a blink of an eye – or 400 [...]
I recently ran across an article that I thought was interesting in regards to different media and the “consumption device” through which we see it. This was the analogy that caught my attention: CONSUMPTION DEVICE: MEDIUM 1. WEB BROWSER : WEB PAGE (a) telephone : phone call (b) smart phone : app (c) printed book [...]
Twitter unveiled some major updates to the Interface in December. One interesting tidbit for developers is the new Tweet embed feature. Now embedding a tweet will be as simple as embedding a YouTube video...well sort of. It’s not quite as seamless as YouTube. The one problem I find with this feature right out of the [...]
Does it bother you when you go to a website on your phone and there is no mobile friendly version? Since mobile browsing is only increasing having a site that adapts to the small screen is becoming imperative. I found a website dedicated to calling people out on their terrible (or great, but less often [...]
‘Retina display's pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels.’ - Apple Inc. With the advent of high pixel density displays, i.e. the iPhone 4 ‘Retina Display’ and many more sure to follow the pixel itself is now a relative unit. I always thought of a pixel as on dot [...]
Back in the early Web days, the use of "click here" was defended on the grounds that users wouldn't otherwise know what to do. Authors thought that users needed hints on the basic use of their browsers. So why do people still use this language when web browsing is as commonplace for people as brushing [...]
Ten years ago, browser support for CSS layouts was wonky overall. Designers and developers advocated for web standards compliance, while creating hundreds of hacks that made CSS layouts work in all browsers. Today, CSS-based layouts are commonplace and every browser has pretty solid support for them. But now the situation of browser compliance is repeating [...]
The new Mac Minis won't be able to play CDs or DVDs, because the optical drive has been taken out and the Thunderbolt port has been installed. Apple and Intel collaborated on Thunderbolt, which will now be a standard feature across the entire MacBook Pro line as well. Thunderbolt (previously called Light Peak) is a [...]
CSS3 has made front-end web development easier and more streamlined than ever before. The simple fact that CSS3 has capabilities to render more sophisticated design elements enables web developers to rely less and less on images to be loaded onto the page. Sounds like a miracle, eh? Well, yes and no...depending on what browser the [...]
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