Markus Tenghamn

The ninth Chromium: Xiaomi

This week I finally gathered the courage to run the media query test suite I wrote over a year ago in the latest crop of mobile browsers. The results are moderately interesting, especially when it comes to Chromium-based browsers. I discovered a new one: Xiaomi Chromium. It’s the ninth I identified, and the first one I had to work really hard on in order to get a version number.

As I have been…

October 2, 2014

UX Futures is a one-day virtual conference that will take place November 5. Hosted by Rosenfeld Media and Environments for Humans, the event features six inspiring speakers—Steve Krug, Jesse James Garrett, Margot Bloomstein, Andy Polaine, Nathan Shedroff and Abby Covert—all focusing on what’s next for…read more By Mary Jean Babic              

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Getting Started with CSS Shapes

I just watched Jen Simmons give a talk Modern Layouts: Getting Out Of Our Ruts and she had some great examples of how easy CSS shapes are to use, even with safe progressive enhancement. If you haven’t heard of them, essentially it’s a way to wrap content (typically text) around custom SVG-like paths.

As serendipity would have it, here’s Razvan Caliman with a megapost on how it all works and how…

From the last month or so, with a few older articles.

Older, but still important. Tomi Ahonen reports that Samsung is losing quite a bit of smartphone sales market share, mostly because of competition from cheap Chinese vendors in the developing world.

Speaking about Tomi, he also found numberson smartphone unique owner installed base — in other words, the number of smartphone owners per 100…

I’ve had some disparate thoughts regarding pagination lately, so I thought I’d attempt to organize them in a post. That’s how blogging works right?

Consistent Positioning

If there is any way to make sure your pagination buttons don’t move, do it. It’s such a nice experience to be able to just click-click-click (or tap-tap-tap) and the same thing happens each time. And when you get to the end, a…

Matchstick Brings Firefox OS to Your HDTV: Be the First to get a Developer Stick

The first HDMI streaming stick powered by Firefox OS has arrived. It’s called Matchstick and we’re looking for your help to create apps for this new device.

Background

Matchstick stems from a group of coders that spent way too much time mired in the guts of platforms such as Boot to Gecko, XBMC, and Boxee. When Google introduced Chromecast we were excited about the possibilities but ultimately…

Win This Book! How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products

October 3, 2014

Last month Poornima Vijayashanker shared insights on differntiating with design from her new book How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products. Today, we're launching a contest to give away five copies. Answer the following question to enter:

“What's your favorite example of a product that differentiates based on design?”

To give us your answer, visit our newsletter…

Awesome new gallery plugin that enables grouped animated galleries based on categories and more. Sorta hard to explain but you can see how it works via the demo. DigWP people can save a few bucks on the personal or developer version.

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Digging Into WordPress

The Missing SDK For Hybrid App Development

Hybrid vs. native: The debate has gone on, and will go on, for ages. Each form of app development has its pros and cons, and an examination of the key differences between the two methods reveals that a flat correlation is like comparing apples to oranges. Many hybrid app developers understand that they’re not starting on a level playing field with native developers, but it’s important for them to…

Responsive Images: If you’re just changing resolutions, use srcset.

If you’re implementing responsive images (different images in HTML for different situations) and all you are doing is switching between different versions of the same image (the vast majority of usage), all you need is the srcset attribute on the <img>. Gaze upon this easy syntax:

<img src="small.jpg" srcset="medium.jpg 1000w, large.jpg 2000w" alt="yah">

It’s not just the syntax that is easy, it…

Is iOS 8 the "Biggest Release" yet or Just a More Polished Version of iOS 7?

September 29, 2014

Whether you admire Apple for being an iconic design trendsetter or blame the rise of excessive consumerism on the corporation, you likely didn’t miss the iOS 8 operating system release a couple of weeks ago. All of the new features rolled out during a chain of beta releases are now available for download to the general public. Still, only iPhone6 owners will be able to adopt…