Zen and the Art of Wearable Markup
Jeffrey muses on progressive enhancement and future-friendliness.
Brett Jankord – Active development on Categorizr has come to an end
I think it’s a bit of a shame that Brett is canning his mobile-first device-detection library, but I totally understand (and agree with) his reasons.
There is a consensual hallucination in the market, that we can silo devices into set categories like mobile, tablet, and desktop, yet the reality is drawing these lines in the sand is not an easy task.
Related links
Patty Toland — Design Consistency For The Responsive Web (Smashing Conference Freiburg 2014) on Vimeo
Patty’s excellent talk on responsive design and progressive enhancement. Stick around for question-and-answer session at the end, wherein I attempt to play hardball, but actually can’t conceal my admiration and the fact that I agree with every single word she said.
A future friendly workflow | Opinion | .net magazine
Some more thoughts on how our workflow needs to adapt to the current ever-changing device landscape.
The Future Friendly Campus // Speaker Deck
It’s great to see the Future Friendly call-to-arms being expanded on. Here it’s university sites that are being looked at through a future-friendly lens.
The ‘trouble’ with Android | Stephanie Rieger
Stephanie focuses on Android but this is a cautionary tale about trying to impose control over what you’re sending to the multitude of mobile devices out there.
Designing to fixed screen sizes is in fact never a good idea…there is just too much variation, even amongst ‘popular’ devices.
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Detection
A mobile-first approach to UA-sniffing.