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Book Review: Peter Gasston’s The Modern Web

June 4, 2013September 23, 2014
Book: The Modern Web

tl;dr: Peter Gasston’s The Modern Web is a matter-of-fact compendium of essentially all of the relevant current (and some future) front-end web technologies. It’s hard to know something about everything, and it’s that fact that makes this book useful for designers and developers of all skill levels. Peter Gasston knows a lot of stuff. In […]

Posted in Book Review, browsers, CSS, Layout, Web Standards

Nesting media queries

October 17, 2012October 17, 2012

In my presentation at Mobilism 2011 (slides) I talked about using logical and and or in media queries. Most of us use and, but I found that not as many people knew about the logical or, which in the case of media queries is the comma. In comma-separated media queries, like this one: @media screen […]

Posted in browsers, CSS, Design, HTML, Mobile, Web, Web Standards

Great Works of Fiction Presents: The Mobile Context

July 9, 2012

I love fiction. UFOs, unicorns, faith healing, the Mobile Web, the Mobile Context, psychics. Speaking of which… I’m sure many of you have heard of cold reading. Cold reading is one of many toolkits used by psychics to convince others (and often themselves) that they know more about a person than they actually do. One […]

Posted in Babble, browsers, Mobile, Satire, Sightings, Web

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