Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier ∙ An A List Apart
Ilya Grigorik discusses in detail how to construct a mobile website that loads as quickly as possible. A site that not only renders in 1 second, but one that is also visible in 1 second.
Are you undecided in the great Flat vs. Skeuououmourphic design debate of 2012? Are you unsure of how flat is flat enough (but not too flat)? Wondering what it means to let a button be a button? Use this handy chart to pick the button that looks like a button to you!
Branding and Web Design
This is a nice case study by creative agency Tractorbeam for Exigo, a company that provides the premier platform-as-a-service (PAAS) solution for the direct selling industry.
More about the branding project on WE AND THE COLOR
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Via tech colleagues at The NYT, in their weekly link roundup. Andre Behrens noted this one:
This short and sweet piece explains how you can trigger bad paint performance just by reading the values of certain DOM properties. Basically: any dynamic layout value will, upon being accessed (whether or not it’s modified), trigger a total paint. In my apps, I’ve taken to doing total size calculations in one place, all at once, updated only on window resizes. It’s unpleasant, but it’s worth the performance bump.
The post includes a list of common JS properties that trigger “layout thrashing”, like
offsetHeight, scrollTo,scrollHeight,offsetTop,offsetParentand more. And Ms. Norton follows up the post with an examination of one particular content-oriented JS property,.innerText, that also thrashes layout. She recommends.textContent, which is a great tip.Excellent series of posts.
Not soon enough…
Over the past few months I’ve been doing an awful lot of Wordpress theme development. I’ve also being doing a lot of Sass/Compass development. In this short post I’m going to show you my config.rb set up and my style.scss set up.
Chris Coyier has a pretty good article on this very thing. My…
Goodnight everyone.
Selling international yet or do I have to send you pineapple lumps?
Buy it, burn it, throw it aside. It’s the modern way innit.
(Source: lookwork.com, via cut-and-run)
I’d like to see some numbers please, because if we can pour $1.4bn into a hole in the ground, surely $400m for a cable that will help us present New Zealand as a content hub rather than a content consumer would be money well spent.
Jeremy Keith summarizing Luke W’s most recent AEA talk:
[In Silicon Valley] you have a bunch of internet companies in close physical proximity. They are also the top sites in the US when it comes to time spent on the web, by a very wide margin. You would think that the similarities would end there, because they all provide very different services: social networking, email, messaging, search, and video. But they have something in common. They are all write/read experience. They don’t work unless people contribute content to them. You post updates, you send emails, you type in searches, you upload videos.
Tim Berners-Lee said that his original vision for the web was a place where we could all meet and read and write.
This isn’t just a US-centric thing. Looking at the worldwide list of most popular sites, you’ve got the ones mentioned already but also Twitter and Wikipedia, where all the content is contributed by their users. Even Amazon is powered by reviews. This is what makes the web so awesome. It’s not a broadcast medium. It’s a two-way street. It’s interactive.
So what’s the biggest factor that’s changing for all of these sites? Mobile.
As always, even the notes from AEA—by both Jeremy Keith and Luke W himself—are great reading if you can’t attend.
