Through fluid grids and media query adjustments, responsive design enables Web page layouts to adapt to a variety of screen sizes.
Good mobile user experience requires a different design than what’s needed to satisfy desktop users. Two designs, two sites, and cross-linking to make it all work.
via Mobile Site vs. Full Site (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).
Not sure that Molly will approve.
Tags: usability
An app is a specialized tool, like a wrist watch. Apps thrive on mobile because people on the go have short bursts of time to accomplish tasks. Waiting in line at a bank, you only have a few seconds to check your mail.
via Apps vs The Web.
Tags: programming, web, Web Tools
When Rasmus Lerdorf first put PHP together, he – quite sensibly, despite his heritage – chose not to write it in Greenlandic or Danish. Good job too – that would have been rather unpleasant to work with. He opted instead, being in Canada at the time, for the local tongue. No, not French – that bastard dialect of the Queens English commonly referred to as “US English”1.
via If PHP Were British – Added Bytes – Brighton Web Application Development.
Tags: humor
svn diff -r REVNO:HEAD --summarize
Just replace REVNO with the start revision and HEAD with the end revision if you don’t want it to be the latest revision.
via SVN Tip: Get List of Files Changed Between Revisions by Stuart Colville.
This idea started with an accidental discovery: if you put a CSS perspective on a scrollable <DIV>, then 3D elements inside that <DIV> will retain their perspective while you scroll. This results in smooth, native parallax effects, and makes objects jump out of the page, particularly when using an analog input device with inertial scrolling.
via Making Love to WebKit — Acko.net.
The web, early 2012. Scroll s-l-o-w-l-y.
Tags: state of the art
The mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin (mysqlnd_ms) adds easy to use MySQL replication support to all PHP MySQL extensions that use mysqlnd.
Tags: DB performance, MySQL
Has anyone ever asked you for help troubleshooting some combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and they copy and paste the entirety of all the files into an email or forum post? Its super common, and so consider this an intervention. When you are having trouble figuring something out:
Tags: web
Your design might be too minimal if:
You’re using minimalism for the wrong reason
If you’re sacrificing usability in any way
via Minimalist Web Design: How Minimal is Too Minimal?.
My kind of designs!
7-inch tablets have either a glorious future or will fail miserably. I doubt there’s a middle path in their future.
via Kindle Fire Usability Findings (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).
So will the Fire sell in the millions? or will it be a fire sale?
Tags: usability