“The internet has dramatically widened the number of available substitutes. You don’t have to like it, but it’s true. That means you have to work far harder to create work that can’t easily be replaced.”
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.
I’ll be speaking at the Web 2.0 conference this year on how web standards can be used to create rich mobile experiences. The conference takes place September 27–30, and I’ll be speaking on Tuesday morning, the 28th. If you’re interested in attending use the discount code, webny10fos, for a 25% discount.
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" />
Fred Wilson points out a variety of ways the mobile web works better for content consumption than native apps.
“Websites are looking like web applications that look like websites that look like science fiction that look like Apple that are quickly looking like a design trend of the late 2000’s.”
“Be careful of the “everyones” who say pageviews are imperfect but the best we can do. They’re the ones who are happy with the web as a market for bullshit.”
“My feeling is that everything you do is marketing all the time. Your products are marketing. Your Web sites and your customer service are marketing. All of those things to me are what marketing is all about; it’s not a department.”
“There’s a world outside the crazy “best practices” created to overcome horrific shortcomings of CSS. We are not confined to the way things are.”
Just boarded a 10+ hour flight to Europe.
The bad news: there are three five-year-old boys sitting in the row behind me.
The good news: this bar...
