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as Article At the End of June, 2013, I started a new project called Web Development Reading List (WDRL). It was the logical evolvement of my weekly blog posts containing interesting links of our industry. When I started the newsletter, after just two weeks it already got 100 subscribers, not counting the people reading the online archive. It grew and outgrew… Now, four months later, I have over 500 … -
as Article Last week I asked my Twitter followers to answer a short survey about their testing behavior regarding web projects. I'll now show you the results and do some conclusions from them. Do you test your Responsive Design in all major Desktop browsers? 72% say they test their sites on all major desktop browsers 28% don't do it Conclusion: The reason I asked this question was that I had the feeling …Do you really test your websites?
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as Article If you use images in CSS backgrounds or in ::before and ::after pesudo-elements the browser is not able to prefetch these resources with its prefetch algorithm. This is because this algorithm only searches for image resources in the HTML source. To read the sources given in CSS the user agent would have to parse the CSS first which is a big performance bottleneck. This is the reason why browsers …Prefetching CSS Resources
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as Article This year I changed my way of doing vacation. I changed my way of life. Joy is the most desireable feeling of life, and when you get it, you are able to do great things. It does not matter if you are working or not, with joy you will do things better. I almost stopped doing the typical kind of vacation, laying on the beach relaxing. I tend to get bored very quick relaxing. This year I made a lot …Working on the Road
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as Article It's very likely you set up a public and maybe Open Source repository on github or services like bitbucket. Those are services where developers find all their needed Open Source stuff: Libraries, Polyfills, Code examples. But a big problem is, one never really knows if a repository is still actively maintained. This article takes on several steps how to deal with repositories that you aren't …Handle Deprecated and Unmaintained Repositories
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as Article The following post is written in German as this is the main and probably only target audience. Bereits vor einigen Wochen überkam mich das Gefühl, dass ich zu viele Sachen habe, die ich nicht brauche. Unter anderem viele Fachbücher und DVDs, die der ein oder andere von euch vielleicht haben möchte. Daher verschenke ich nun folgende Sachen: Ihr könnt die Sachen entweder in München bei mir abholen …Große Buchverschenkaktion
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as Article As a dedicated worker you have to stay informed about the latest news and technology in your job. This counts for web developers, designers as well as many other jobs that develop vastly over just a few months or years. It is hard to stay up-to-date while still getting work done – that’s why we need some selection. Newsletters – a medium which has been struggling for years now since every company …The Revival of Newsletters
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as Article Photos from today at X-Games Munich MTB Slope Style. See the full set on Flickr. See the full set on Flickr. All pictures are under Creative Commons 3.0 CC BY-NC-SA license.X-Games Munich
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as Article For nearly two years now I constantly wrote the so called and beloved by many 'Reading Lists' on my blog. This is going to have an end by now. What sounds sad for many is exciting for me. I never was convinced that my blog is the proper place for the Reading Lists. Until now it was just the best I had found. In the past weeks it came into my mind what the Reading Lists are really supposed to …Introducing WDRL
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as Article The Sass Style Guide by Chris Coyier is a helpful guide how to structure your Sass workflow Pure.css is a CSS library serving reusable small modules you can use in your projects We now have NodeGH! It's github for node.js which means you can finally use github specific tools in your commandline An iOS WebKit Debug Proxy has landed on github giving you the power of Chrome DevTools to iOS Safari …Webdev Reading List 10
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as Article Beyondtellerand Conference The last week was a special week for me. First, the awesome (and probably best web conference I know of) beyondtellerand 2013 took place. I met a lot of new people and had a great time enjoying all the well chosen speakers. The second day was something special for me – my first SmashingMag article was published this day. Open Device Labs – Why Should We Care? On …OpenDeviceLabs, SmashingMagazine, netawards
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as Article It's about testing, better code, typography, accessibility and – of course – web performance! Geri Coady's book about Color Accessibility has just been published by five simple steps. It's as cheap as £2 as an E-Book. "Welcome, Recent Graduates!" Summary slide deck about web performance: "Putting Your Site on a Diet" Smashingmag published the "Typographic Design Patterns And …Reading List #9
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as Article Last weeks cool stuff in the webd development blogs. Mapbox announced that they have a new technique serving vector map tiles which is super-awesome. Unfortunately this seems yet to be a closed beta You now can Detecting WebP support with Header Vary Accept on Apache servers Benedikt Kastl wrote a comparison of the current jpeg libraries and Photoshop does best! Yoav Weiss blogged his quick …Reading List 8
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as Article I just read that article which gives an overview on what average websites consist of and compares to responsive websites: What are Responsive Websites made of?. What I saw there made me think what is wrong with the average website: First, it is about the pagesize itself: 1.4MB is the average. I cannot imagine why so many websites need so much 'information' that they are this large. A normal …The (missing) Awareness Of Pagesize
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as Article A short list of the past seven days in web technology. shame.css is an approach to self-identify messed up quick-fix code in its own file so you can get this fixed afterwards when you have the time for it. Care about Type first says typecast and points to the importance of typography in responsive webdesign. Chris Heilmann wrote about how to show multimedia fallback content properly when no …Reading List 7
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as Article Short list of the last week's best articles in web technology What is this <template>-element Keeping Open Source secrets. Tom Ashworth writes how to keep shared secrets or similar private data secret in your open source projects. Stylemanual is an important resource to look at from time to time especially for writers. How to style console.log() by Adam Schwartz grunt-concurrent by the …Reading List 6
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as Article I bought a new camera and decided to go with the Fuji X-E1. It loosk so damn beautiful and retro and is one of the best small cameras technically right now.Fuji X-E1
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as Article Gosh, it has been some weeks already that I've published my last reading list. A new issue now. Progressive Reduction is a nice UI technique focussing on reduction. Before you file an issue, please read this before I am really hoping this will be regarded more often. responsive-nav.js by Viljami Salminen its an UX approach of offering a simple and good usable navigation on different devices. …Reading List 5
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as Article After switching my content from a CMS to Jekyll based github pages I still had to deal with some drawbacks. Now I am using a CDN for static files… Isn't github a CDN? Yes it is. Github serves your content of github pages via several servers around the world which basically means it is a Content Delivery Network. Unfortunately as it only serves static files you are not able to modify headers or …Use a CDN on GitHub pages
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as Article This element being a rookie to HTML5 is still very unknown. I assume many normal developers never even heard of it yet. I want to quickly write up why every developer should know this element. Steve Faulkner proposed the <main> element some months ago to the WHATWG and W3C and it now went into specification of HTML5. As the name already says, the <main> element is a one time per …Why you should use <main>
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