Category: Web Design
ignoredByDinosaurs – The Great Lie: Lorem Ipsum
Having done this more than once in 100% agreement.
GitHub – davatron5000/FitVids.js
Pretty cool, not something I personally would need often but still useful.
Lea Verou – Pure CSS3 typing animation with steps()
Pretty nifty trick.
CSS-Tricks – Functional CSS Tabs Revisited
The idea of "CSS Tabs" has been around for a long time. If you Google it, a lot of what you get is styled CSS tabs, but less stuff on the building an actually functional tabbed area. At least, functional in the sense as we think of tabbed areas today: click a tab, see a […]
Ars Technica – Wikipedia editors voting on plan to “shutter” violent and sexual images
Not a bad plan, it’s a reasonable balance between still providing a visual representation of whatever and making it easier for people who don’t want to be “shocked” at the sight of the image.
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users
Wikipedia’s mobile version while typically not known for it’s usability is used as a good example of hiding information until needed.
The Watchmaker Project – How to fix the broken iPad form label click issue
Nice and simple fix, defiantly not quite as common a problem on the iPhone (rarely do I find myself wanting to hit the label vs. the input field).
Official Gmail Blog – Our plans to support modern browsers across Google Apps
Wouldn’t that be amazing if this is start of all web applications/sites being able to only support this same list of browsers.
Signal vs. Noise – It just doesn’t matter
Totally true, the user experience should focus on making what matters better not on adding in features that don’t add anything.
Mobile Boilerplate
Awesome resource.