A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
As Jeremy Keith put it (emphasis mine): This thread on whether HTML5 Boilerplate should include Respond.js by default (and whether the CSS should take a small-screen first approach) nicely summarises the current landscape for web devs: chaotic, confusing … and very, very exciting. I for one tend to pledge for the Mobile First approach (see …
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Two years after CSS 3D got introduced in Webkit Nightlies: When the first 3D transformations in CSS got support on Webkit browsers people got incredibly excited about them. Now that they have matured we also support 3D CSS in Firefox. Only in Firefox Nightlies for now (Firefox 10). CSS 3D transformations in Firefox Nightly →
If you go to the iPhone4S product page on the Apple site, you’ll see some sweet CSS3 animations at work. John B. Hall took the birds’ eye view and analyzed what happens. The “phone stage” (blue-bordered box) contains all 6 “slides” of the animation sequence and has a transition css property with a duration and …
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Getting Facebook working on a SIM means using the SIM Toolkit commands, which limits interaction to a cascade of text menus, but it does mean that any GSM handset can now access Facebook. Handsets don’t even need an internet connection as the service uses Class 2 SMS for connectivity (SMS messages sent and received by …
In this paper, we train a computer to select still frames from video that work well as candid portraits. Because of the subjective nature of this task, we conduct a human subjects study to collect ratings of video frames across multiple videos. Then, we compute a number of features and train a model to predict …
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