“This technique, on its own, is destructive to the web. The implementation is inappropriate, even as a temporary measure or as a downgrade experience.”
Dan Webb, It’s About The Hashbangs
May 31st 2011
The Changelog: Episode 0.3.0 - Sencha Touch »
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.
Targeting various iOS devices with media queries »
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.”
Trudy Miller, Apple spokeswoman
“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.”
Mike Chambers, On Adobe, Flash CS5 and iPhone Applications
CSS Sandbox »
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.”
Steve Jobs, in a direct email response about Section 3.3.1
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.
