Friday, December 30, 2011
A Resolution for an Accessible New Year talks about the Fix the Web project and gives details and ideas about how you can participate in fixing the web. The Goldilocks Approach to Responsive Web Design takes a different approach to the concept. Sure to be discussed widely, so go read it. Understanding Apple is a [...]
Monday, November 21, 2011
Here’s a well-developed resource for ARIA information from MDN. Mobile Apps headed for the dustbin of history at DevBeat is must reading for anyone interested in where the Internet is going.
Quora announced a new iPhone app for Quora. I guess they are hoping to revive the project. I don’t know about you, but I am completely over Quora. I never check it. It was unbearably slow to load, navigation was not all that clear, and the system of promoting the questions and answers never really [...]
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
In what has been called the decade of games, in an era when Jane McGonigal is a thought leader, developers are rushing to find ways to gamify education and social problems. Wikipedia defines gamification as “as the integration of game mechanics or game dynamics into a website, service, community, campaign, or application in order to [...]
product HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World, written by Alexis Goldstein, Louis Lazaris and Estelle Weyl, is from Sitepoint (2011). This book takes on several topics that could fill an entire book individually, yet manages to serve each topic well. As you can tell from the title, the book talks about HTML5 and CSS3, [...]
The White House has challenged developers to develop apps that help prevent abuse. The announcement at Challenge.gov is called Apps Against Abuse. The challenge: Vice President Biden and Secretary Sebelius are honored to announce a challenge that encourages the development of applications that provide college students and young adults with the tools to help prevent [...]
This looks interesting. A WordPress theme developer that is meant to be customized. It’s called Bones and uses HTML5 Boilerplate, CSS3 and the 960 Grid system. App Press is a tool that helps you build apps for iOS. Web font hosting services – an overview is a huge grid showing just about everything you might [...]
I got a PR email from a site called Lucky Chic. The email talked about getting iPads and other tech toys for almost nothing. They guarantee that their products are the real thing. When I look at the site, I saw bidding on items that looked like this. I decided to register to check them [...]
DIY Mobile Programming: Get Started with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Good resource. Five Questions with Zoe Gillenwater. An interview by Chris Coyier. It is impossible to say enough good things about Zoe Gillenwater. Awesome is a good place to start. Google and Mozilla Take Steps Toward Do Not Track is a post of my own [...]