As the mobile market continues to grow, it is essential for us, web developers, to make sure our stuff works on all platforms. As I was previously wondering how most of you are testing cross browser experience, I’m now curious to know if you test for mobile devices, and if so, what tools do you [...]
It’s inevitable, sometimes annoying and yet, it’s part of our charming job: cross browser testing, and even cross OS testing. As frontdend developers, we want to deliver quality, therefore making sure that what we deliver is functional. It doesn’t have to look 100% the same, their might be some fallback (cf. css3, javascript) but in [...]
Instead of defining two stylesheet links in your head tag, you can define one and for screen & print styles and divide the different styles in the one stylesheet.
@media screen {
body { font-size:14px; }
}
@media print {
body { font-size:10pt; }
h1, h2, h3 { page-break-after:avoid; }
}
Read the full article at the blog of Geert De Deckere
This is some cool stuff. A jquery plugin allowing you to build solid iPhone webapps. If you have an iPhone you should definitely check out the examples.
Otherwhise, check out this screencast, it’s really neat!
Most of us create identities across the web without much conscious thought. We fill in profiles, upload photos, videos, reviews, and bookmarks. Although this information is often public, it’s fragmented into the silos of individual websites. Wouldn’t it be a little magical if, when you signed up for a new site, the site said something [...]
The danger can be that front-end developers, working in a user-focused area, are seen as performing a superficial function — applying a polish to the heavy lifting done by another developer, say, or that dread comment, “making things look nice”. Let’s be clear, making things look nice is the sole responsibility of the designer. When [...]