Responsive Design News

Keep up with the latest news and developments around responsive design and the new direcitons that web designa and development are taking.

Developing in the Open

How foundation has gone through the process of being an internal tool to becoming an open source project with more than 1000 contributors.

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Enhancing Optimistically

The cutting the mustard test might be fit for applying enhanced CSS styles, but as this article shows the JS code itself that provides the enhanced functionality might not be there immediately. Fortunately Scott Jehl is UBER clever and has a solution for us.

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Dave Goes Build

The other evening I had a few drinks with my long time friends Al and Bart to wet Darcey’s head. During out drinks we talked about WWDC and how underwhelmed we were but also about Microsoft Build conference and just how well they were coming up to speed with our industry. Dave Rupert attended the […]

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Learn and Teach

A great open talk about how we can all Learn and Teach in this industry. Everyone has a lesson to share, and everyone can learn from it.

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Chat bots, conversation and AI as an interface

Are we still building websites if we’re using chat bots to communicate our messaging? My good friend Al believes that bots are the way of the future, and with many company’s jumping on the bandwagon it’s becoming more difficult to argue with that idea. At the end of the day the websites that we build […]

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BEMantic: DRY Like You Mean It

Last week we featured an article about ensuing your CSS is used along with semantics, for example styling button instead of .button in a <button class=”button”> example. This week our long time friend and contributor Matt Stow shows how both BEM and staying with HTML semantics

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Caching best practices & max-age gotchas

A reallyreally reallygood overview of how caching works shown through the medium of group text messaging (seriously, just read the article… it’s worth it)

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Making IFrames Responsive

A detailed overview of the process of creating the (un)official Can I Use iframe embed.

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The Way We Build

A wonderful insight into the way that Airbnb developed their design language.

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The Web isn’t uniform

The other day I tweeted my annoyance at the fact that I visited 12 websites and used my 20mb train wifi limit. This tweet spurred a discussion/argument with a good friend about what is suitable for building on the web. His argument is that by building things that required more processing power, more bandwidth, faster […]

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Ideal HTTP Performance

If you want to understand the essentials of HTTP2 then it is difficult to go past Mark Nottingham (chair of the HTTP Working Group). In this article he breaks things down simply with rudimentary diagrams explaining the current concepts and where things should be going.

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Caching best practices & max-age gotchas

Getting caching right yields huge performance benefits, saves bandwidth, and reduces server costs, but many sites half-arse their caching, creating race conditions resulting in interdependent resources getting out of sync.

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BEMantic: DRY Like You Mean It

Last week we featured an article about ensuing your CSS is used along with semantics, for example styling button instead of .button in a example. This week our long time friend and contributor Matt Stow shows how both BEM and staying with HTML semantics

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Smartphone Ownership and Internet Usage Continues to Climb in Emerging Economies

Some great research into the growth of internet and smart phone ownership. Even if you’re not interested in the data I encourage you to see how they have provided the content/data. Tabular data and graphs that work beautifully across multiple viewports!

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April's 10 best new web design tools

A great overview of some design resources online. Some of these we’ve featured in the past but they’re certainly worth another mention.

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A Complete Guide to Grid

HTML pub crawl

Lets all work together to make PDF’s on the web a thing of the past (or an exception to the rule)

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CSS Grid and CSS Regions

A nice layout example with CSS regions to get text to flow through a grid in and around images. It seems as though CSS regions isn’t really taking off at the moment and no one is looking to support them too much so if you like what you see be vocal!

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Still think you don't need HTTPS?

A few reasons why now is the time to be getting https running on your own site.

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Annotating Your (Critical) CSS

I’ve looked a different ways that you can achieve Critical CSS, whether it be programatically, manually, done with an existing code base or a new one. This tutorial explains how it can be done using PostCSS and PostCSS-Split.

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