A quick note about the concept of retrofitting responsiveness onto existing websites - is it feasible? how well does it work? We're in the process of trying it out with Costhetics - one of our clients..
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A quick rundown / stream of consciousness about the different use cases and contexts that *should* govern how we think about responsive web design. There is a definite lack in technology preventing responsive design from being the amazing revolution that it should be.
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One of the things i'm doing at the moment (very slowly) is converting all my CSS to SCSS. I find the maintainability so much better - today i found a tool to convert existing CSS to SCSS. Not bad.
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Google finally got around to updating their iOS app - it now supports push. Since I've blogged a bit about Sparrow recently, I figured I'd give everyone a quick update on where my iOS mail usage is currently sitting.
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So, a few weeks ago I came across Snapguide. It's a great howto and guide app for iOS. The thing that really struck me about this app is how well thought out the interface is. iOS is a great platform for building apps to consume content, however content creation is somewhat limited. The only apps that really do a good job of content creation are simple, one step creation apps (like: Instragram, Facebook etc). Where you only create one piece of content, and you provide minimal information.
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So, this week I've been teaching web design at Shillington College in Sydney. Today we had an interesting discussion about <section> vs <div> for marking up regions on a page in HTML5 - in our case: particularly the main content region (which previously we style as <div id="content">. The debate stemmed from the (somewhat obsessive) idea that <div>'s are evil.
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You know you're doing something right when your interface is clearly better than Apple's. Sparrow for Mac did it and now Sparrow for iPhone has too.
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