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Category Archives: Elsewhere
Responsive Web Design Layout Patterns
Through fluid grids and media query adjustments, responsive design enables Web page layouts to adapt to a variety of screen sizes. As more designers embrace this technique, we’re not only seeing a lot of innovation but the emergence of clear patterns as well. I cataloged what seem to be the most popular of these patterns …
Digital Family Reunions
In Singapore, it is a common practice for entire families to gather on special occasions for a formal picture, often at a studio, with the resulting image framed and prominently displayed at home. The growing tendency of younger family members to take jobs abroad, however, has left many modern portraits missing a relation or two. …
Why you should write em-based media queries
The V Motion Project – Can’t Help Myself
Breaking Bad in real-life
The story of Lori Arnold, who single-handedly started the meth epidemic in the US: We flew a chemist out to Iowa. He told us what lab equipment and chemicals to order, and we had them shipped to us at the car lot. It cost me $50,000, all of it ordered through pharmaceutical catalogs. This guy …
Jay-Z’s 99 Problems vs. The Fourth Amendment
Line-by-line analysis of the second verse of 99 Problems by Jay-Z, from the perspective of a criminal procedure professor. The calculation Jay-Z has to make is whether, knowing that the car contains concealed contraband, he’s better off trying to flee or hoping that the police won’t find the drugs during the stop. This may be …
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Vendor Prefix Drama
Grab a bucket of popcorn and start reading. “YHWH” clearly doesn’t get it (UA sniffing, only prefixed properties, inline JS, …) Hundreds of pages in our 16 plus domains DO NOT fade images on mouseover anymore, because the -moz-opacity:0.7 reading function is GONE. Seems like he’s also forgetting the fact it only works used to …
iOS in-app proxy
We received some disturbing tips today that a Russian developer has published a method of obtaining in-app purchases from iOS apps for free. The “in-app proxy” method does not require a jailbreak, can be completed by novices in three steps using just an iOS device, and allows users to install in-app content for free. The …