I sat down the other day for a short interview with Wynn Netherland at the ChangeLog. We talked a bit about jQTouch, Sencha Touch, and a few technologies I’ve been psyched about lately, including SASS/Compass and YQL.
Jesse Dodds with an awesome tip for iPhone web devs: You can use the media attribute on webclip icons to specify different resolution icons (like for the Retina display):
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" media="screen and (resolution: 326dpi)" href="/iOS-114.png" />
Jeremy Keith has written the first in the A Book Apart series, HTML5 for Web Designers:
The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice.
The book is $18 to pre-order, and I think it will be a worthwhile addition to any web designer’s collection.
“Someone has it backwards — it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary.”
“We are at the beginning of a significant change in the industry, and I believe that ultimately open platforms will win out over the type of closed, locked down platform that Apple is trying to create.”
A beautiful little tool from Pixelmatrix Design that lets you code and test CSS in real time.
“We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.”
Jeffrey Zeldman and John Rainsford have launched Support Web Standards, a new little e-commerce shop with some excellent screen-printed posters, buttons, and stickers focussed on web standards evangelism.
If you’re a web developer and haven’t given Sass a try yet, get into it ASAP. It a Ruby gem that abstracts CSS — it empowers the CSS with functions and variables, saves a ton of development time, and even makes it easier to be more consistent with your designs. Here’s a sample of a theme I’m working on which shows off some of the functionality.
Version 3 brings a new syntax to SASS, converting the language to a CSS superset, meaning it actually looks like CSS now (one of my biggest complaints of SASS 2). The new format is called SCSS (Sassy CSS) and is built off the CSS3 spec.
If you want to give it a shot, just install with:
gem install haml --pre
Aaron Staton and Rich Sommer checking out Tumblr on the set of Mad Men.
Very friendly Monster Friends poster series available from Familytree. The Kracken, Yeti, Loch Ness, & Sasquatch, by Alex Pearson, ...
This article is specifically about pixel “density”, a relatively new concern to digital designers. In the mobile environment, screen resolution has...
