puttin’ on my work hat
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
Case in point: At some point in the past, perhaps the distant past, Apple added the capability to jump from letter group to letter group by holding down on the letter column, rather than just stabbing at your letter of choice and usually missing. After four years of using iDevices, during the course of writing this column, I accidentally held down for a second on an alpha character, causing the slide bar to appear.
via Browse vs. Search: Which Deserves to Go?.
Interface geeks (and non-geeks) should spend some time with Ask Tog.
The PC is dead. Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don’t merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we’re seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users and software developers on the one hand, to operating system vendors on the other—and even those who keep their PCs are being swept along. This is a little for the better, and much for the worse.
via The PC is dead. Why no angry nerds? :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It.
Tags: speculation
Working on the web, however, is a wholly different matter. Our work is defined by its transience, often refined or replaced within a year or two. Inconsistent window widths, screen resolutions, user preferences, and our users’ installed fonts are but a few of the intangibles we negotiate when we publish our work, and over the years, we’ve become incredibly adept at doing so.
I wonder, Do you recognize your organization somewhere on the pyramid?
via The Corporate Curmudgeon: THE DAUTEN HIERARCHY OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE.