All of the audio from Responsive Day Out presentations are available online. Worth checking out (if you have time).
TLDR: social network icons/links/read-counts are crap and we shouldn’t use them.
And a good follow up article: The Scourge of Social Plugins
Run down of how to use them. I really gotta be more diligent about this.
Seriously interesting thoughts/opinions on the future of the web.
If your career is in web design/dev, read that article so you don’t get too surprised in a few years time. I’m not going to say that it will all come true (there’s too many influences on the net for it end up just like the article predicts) but its a pretty good approximation.
Dear web designers/developers
Everytime you use a drop-shadow on a fixed position nav/menu bar, the scrolling frame rate drops to <10fps.
Probably something to do with how browsers render fixed elements and css box shadows, but lets stop it all now, my eyes are hurting.
So StackExchange (who you should be familiar with already from StackOverflow) have heaps of different portals, and there’s one just for UX questions/answers. Some really good stuff in there (more accessible than Quora as well).
Other cool (see: almost pointless) StackExchange sites:
Haha, gonna use this now :)
I’ve used my own version of this technique on a few client. Overall it’s a cool effect, but it can cause some headaches if you aren’t careful: there’s a ‘flash’ of the content on some mobiles - I think it’s to do with the how the browsers choose to animate transforms (as 3d/2d or something).
Making the rounds today: modern.ie
I truly appreciate the effort MS is putting in lately, and they deserve credit for this site… but the whole site feels like a bit of “do as I do, not as I say” (normally its the other way around, I know).
MS: “Use these philosophies” (site explaining this doesn’t actually follow same philosophies).
The vibe is like there’s a smart designer/developer building the thing, but a marketing manager telling them what content to put it (typical MS?)
MS: “Use these -ms prefixed, widely unsupported, unstable API’s and markup”
My last peeve: I’d wager that a majority of web developers/designers are using macs/linux. If you want to help the majority of them with testing, maybe actually offer them useful VM’s on launch. At the moment you can use browser stack (which IMO is just ok), or use their VM’s that require purchasing licenses ($500-1000+) for windows servers.
A talk on some problems solved related to CSS Performance at GitHub. The talk was given at CSS Dev Conference in Honolulu, HI 2012. I recorded the presentation from my laptop and posted it here https://vimeo.com/54990931
A great talk about how changing your CSS Selectors a bit can really increase performance.
This Quora QA is a good start to understanding if sliders actually work (mostly they don’t).
General opinion/feedback would suggest that sliders suck. My own experiences tend to support that - that they should be only used, you know, for actual slideshows and not cramming more crap in.
Gotta love dem pseudos
The content/text we put on our website is important. It helps people understand what the site is all about. Using dumb-arse marketing speak is a good way to turn people away. This seems like common sense but it happens way to often.
Trying to convince a client not to squeeze everything above the fold? Is your whitespace filling up fast? We’ve collected a variety of articles on some sticky web subjects that might just help you make your point. Send your client to one of our topic pages for a quick intro, some links and a wee nudge in the right direction.
Awesome resource for a designer type.
Now you can copy/paste CSS from layer styles - just right click on the layer and hit “Copy CSS”.
