Tag: web standards

Responsive Is Not Just Visual: Three Useful Web APIs

Mobile users are on the go. They’re rushing to get a train or busy meeting people. They don’t have much time and they’re on a slow connection. Right? The answer of course is not necessarily. So-called mobile browsing could include shopping online while tucked up in bed, sending messages while watching TV or giggling at … Continue reading Responsive Is Not Just Visual: Three Useful Web APIs →

On Responsive Images — An Interview With Dr. Stanley Dards

Wanting to serve different size images to different size screens is nothing new but at last the web has a practical solution for responsive images and art direction. Thanks to a lot of hard work by a lot of people, the Responsive Images Community Group has achieved the goal of seeing its API becoming a valuable building … Continue reading On Responsive Images — An Interview With Dr. Stanley Dards →

On Vendor Prefixes — An Interview With Dr. Stanley Dards

At last, the existence of vendor prefixes, one of my pet peeves, is under the spotlight. Also at last, the fact that not all modern browsers are WebKit (shock!) is getting some attention. I (personally) believe vendor prefixes cause more harm than the problem they were designed to solve, namely how to elegantly introduce experimental … Continue reading On Vendor Prefixes — An Interview With Dr. Stanley Dards →

Song: Ode to IE6

It’s so unloved even Microsoft is trying to get rid of it. Here’s my ode to Internet Explorer 6. https://youtube.com/embed/FggueO2CYls Video URL (with captions): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FggueO2CYls Downloads For your downloading pleasure, here are the video and audio–only files. Video (WebM): Ode-to-IE6.webm (17.0 MB) Audio (Ogg): Ode-to-IE6.ogg (1.5 MB) License is Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. If you need a … Continue reading Song: Ode to IE6 →