This is a proposal for addition of a zoom-independent version of window.devicePixelRatio to HTML5. The issue Before Firefox 18 and Chrome 25, to make a 3D (WebGL) game drawn in HD, we could set the scale in <meta name=”viewport”> to … Continue reading
One of the points that I have seen raised against Matt’s most recent suggestion involving templates has stuck a major chord with me: indirection. A Warning What I’m about to suggest seems quite “off the wall” in relation to what … Continue reading
One of the challenges faced when working with responsive images has been managing each of the image variants, and deciding which image file to request depending pixel ratio and network connection. To generalize an example, a paragraph element containing text … Continue reading
I’ve spoken to a few people on Twitter about this, but it occurred me to that the simplest way of dealing with content images (as img tags) in a responsive design and for retina screens was to use a spacer … Continue reading
Several posts are being passed around regarding the 3rd generation iPad’s Retina graphics holding a direct light to how compressed our images are on the web. http://www.mobify.com/blog/ipad-3-and-retina-screen-what-it-means-for-your-mobile-commerce-site/ http://daringfireball.net/2012/03/ipad_3 http://cloudfour.com/how-apple-com-will-serve-retina-images-to-new-ipads/ http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/notes/ipad3s-retina-display-web/ http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/ios-5-1-new-ipad-web-developers http://www.penny-arcade.com/2012/04/02/perhaps-too-real I thought I’d start a discussion on possible … Continue reading
UPDATE: Read this post if you want to know why we don’t need different content. Matt explains this in comments. I recently saw this post and was happy to see what this man had done: http://css-tricks.com/lark-queries/. He changes content when viewing … Continue reading
After checking out the etherpad with brainstorming, asking some questions in this group and seeing what Scott has done with the proposed markup using <picture> , I like the way we go. Now I clearly see the reasons why we … Continue reading
I’m loving the <picture> element proposal but I do see one problem with it in a practical sense rather than a functional sense: failing DRY principals. In a real world use I would imagine (and please weigh in on this) … Continue reading
