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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

New Flexbox tutorial on HTML5Rocks

October 18, 2010January 5, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, Paul Irish posted a quick look at CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Module at HTML5Rocks.com. Some of the material was borrowed (legally and with my blessing, of course) from my own tutorial. Paul has added a few niceties. As for placement on HTML5Rocks.com, Paul sums it up nicely:

Posted in CSS, Layout, Sightings

Personal publishing via web services

May 1, 2008January 5, 2012

Jon Tan and Jon Gibbons recently launched a website for Denna Jones. It’s a great-looking site, and it makes no use of a (single, local) content management system. Rather, the content is pulled from several web services, such as Flickr and Magnolia. This is an interesting idea, but I’m on the fence about the approach. […]

Posted in Design, Sightings, WebTagged cms, denna jones, jon tan, web 2.0, web services

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