I’ve been utilizing data URIs in more and more of my UI work. I use them to insert icons into tool bars, or to add graphical flourishes to elements without having to manage a large number of additional images. These elements are enhancements to otherwise functional designs, so I feel no remorse for IE 7’s [...]
Shawn Blanc links to this article by David Sleight in which David talks about the logistical problems of publishing magazines suitable for the new iPad’s new Retina Display. The gist is that Adobe’s magazine app publishing platform (as well as other’s) creates a magazine by wrapping up a big stack of PNG image files in [...]
I recently updated my update on working around Internet Explorer 9’s deficiencies with gradients and rounded corners. Based upon feedback from a friendly reader, I tweaked the HTC script to work when gradients are applied on hover or mouseover states – the sort of styling you might want to use on a big, friendly, rounded [...]
Poe’s law states: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing. This article “Typekit: Remaking the Matrix” was linked around yesterday by people I respect. A lot of dumb things are published on the internet, and [...]
Architecture firm – ai3 – has remodeled their office to look like the interior of a television space ship. Fancy. 2001 A Space Odyssey + Star Trek = ai3′s SuperGroup Office – Core77.
The Boston Globe had redone their web site with a very nice, clean, reading-focused layout that takes advantage of modern CSS techniques. If you’re using a modern browser, try resizing your browser window to roughly the size of an iPhone. The layout will reformat based upon the screen size. This is a super neat-o method to [...]
I found this little trick today for tricking legacy IE into using RGBA colors – that is a color defined with transparency. It seems to work fairly well, with some caveats, specifically potential font weirdness. http://kilianvalkhof.com/2010/css-xhtml/how-to-use-rgba-in-ie/
Editions by AOL is a news “magazine” app for the iPad which attempts to learn your reading habits in order to create an automatically generated, curated, collection of articles from various sources on the web. The collection process happens each day by default and can be configured to alert you with a push notification. The [...]
Read this: Subtraction.com: The End of Client Services. Then go read this: Until Gotham No Longer Needs Batman I’ve worked on similar ends of both points of view and both articles make valid points. I would only add two: Not everyone can or should run their own business. Not everyone wishes to run their own business. [...]
I have started playing with Google+ and I like it. The styling is minimal. The only UI elements that are boldly colored are ones that require a mouse click. Everything else is either grey or subtly colored. This emphasizes user content over everything else, making it far more pleasant to read compared to facebook or [...]
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