Insight into the speeds of browser adoption. A stat to be very interested in if we want to start using more of the new html5/css3 features on production sites. The sad story though, is that IE adoption rates are actually getting worse over time, unlike the rest of the browsers which are becoming very fast. [...]
Some good ideas for how to make the back-end more end-client friendly. I’ve been meaning to research editor stylesheets anyways! Link: Advanced Layout Templates In WordPress’ Content Editor – (http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/14/advanced-layout-templates-in-wordpress-content-editor/) from (author unknown) at Smashing Magazine Feed
Insights into the fever behind phonegap. Adobe is really innovating and coming out with or at least getting behind some nice one-stop solutions: Edge, phoneGap and getting flash on more devices. Great news! Link: Why I’m Doing PhoneGap – (http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2011/10/why-im-doing-phonegap/) from (author unknown) at Digital Backcountry – Ryan Stewart's Flash Platform Blog
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend drupal camp atlanta over the weekend. It was great! I was also able to attend the drupal business summit as well as drupal camp. They were both awesome and I learned quite a bit more than I expected to. Here are some of the highlights for [...]
Here’s a great walkthrough on using custom meta boxes in a wordpress post! This always comes in handy when using wordpress as a CMS! Link: How To Create Custom Post Meta Boxes In WordPress – (http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/04/create-custom-post-meta-boxes-wordpress/) from (author unknown) at Smashing Magazine Feed
Worrisome points here. The release cycle IE is now projecting is decent, new browsers more often. But what’s far more important than shipping frequency, is the browser half-life; soon there will be way too many configurations of IE for anyone in the web production industry to stay sane. IE10 comes out soon and IE6, IE7 [...]
Here’s an article with a great and simple look into programming movement with simple math and javascript! Some creative examples and lots of jsfiddle links at the end to play with. Link: A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript – (http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/04/quick-look-math-animations-javascript/) from (author unknown) at Smashing Magazine Feed
Proposals in the works for new media queries specific to touch enabled devices. Examples include pointer, which will differentiate wether the device has a fine or coarse pointer (finger vs mouse) and hover, which would say if the device supports hover states. I can see this being helpful and useful for building mobile friendly sites [...]
Jason explains the root of the problem and why no one has been able to devise a solution that makes everyone happy yet. The browsers (in their awesome drive to make browsing faster) are prefetching images and developers want to only use one image based on criteria the browser doesn't know until the layout is [...]
This post on creativejs picks apart how this doodlue was made. Nice they they are able to support HTML5 audio even if it is only supported on chrome and the rest fall back to – you guessed it – flash. Embedded Link Google Moog synth tear-down Yesterday we featured Google's web-based analogue synth Moog tribute [...]
Synth Emulator on Google Japan Doodle Today Embedded Link Moog 自分のオリジナル曲を創って、 #moogdoodle で共有しよう。
New additions to the plugin directory include: favorites, incorporating support forums into it's own tab for each plugin as well as support stats being displayed! Great! I think we also need the ability to give plugins ratings and reviews (bonus points if it can be done from within a wordpress admin dashboard when installing plugins). [...]
Use zipf's short head to tune your website rather than redesign the whole thing. To make a website successful it needs to meet the needs of the users. Find out what those needs are by using the short head philosophy to equate most searched things as the biggest needs of the users. Use personas to [...]
Great article at a list apart discusing the state of the industry regarding responsive images. This picks apart the set attribute of the img element from a surprisingly objective view coming from someone so close to the picture element. Insightful discussion about the principle behind the proposals than the actual solution too. If the working [...]
A great developer story about the differences on what Git is vs other version control and what Git is not. This is how we should learn it. I heard over and over that it was distributed, but never grasped what that meant, so here are a few links and explanations that will help unlearn version [...]
I'm very excited to share the news that the tween library from GreenSock (hands down the best tweening library I used in flash) is not ported for use in javascript! This will be great! I missed that simple syntax from as3 when animating javascript, and now I can have my cake and eat it too. [...]
I'm Evan Mullins. I'm a web designer and am very interested in the intersection of art & technology, user experience, and interactive design. I like contributing to make the web incrementally a better place. I love simultaneously solving problems & making things aesthetically brilliant. circlecube is my interactive design site chock full of tutorials, critiques, techniques, technologies, ramblings and a playground of experiments. Welcome to it!
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