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Matt is an English web designer based in Great Britain.
Those of you who don’t know me allow me to say hi, shake your hand (gents), give you a welcoming hug (ladies) and guide you to the about section.
The W3C communicate using mailing lists (you may need to look up what one of those is). I decided to take my CSS thoughts direct to the people that actually write the CSS Specifications by joining the list and posting a few thoughts. Here's what I covered in the first week:continue reading
How to go about choosing which device sizes to support for your responsive designs.continue reading
I've been thinking about how that'd need to be implemented, and I think it'd have to be as part of the CSS Colour Module, as well as having a stand-alone property. Here are my use-cases with expected syntaxcontinue reading
There are some clever optimisations that have been made in the CSS selector engine for WebKit. I'm wondering if that could be exposed to an author for more direct control...continue reading
Skeuomorphic design emulates real world objects in software. But is it a good idea or a bad idea to take this approach?continue reading
As seasoned developer we sometimes lose touch with the basics. Someone asks us how to get into what it is we do, and we cast our minds back and realise "non of the resources I used to learn are relevant anymore". So, here's my attempt to bring together a few modern versions of the stuff I used to learn how to do web-development.continue reading
An in-depth look at my Adaptive Images technique, showing how we can serve an appropriate size of image to web devices without altering our <img> markup.continue reading
Just summerising a few thoughts and techniques derived recently while doing various work.continue reading
The web is a community to which I belong. It is my responsibility to help keep that community welcoming and open, therefore:continue reading
Don't bash people over the head with your argument stick.continue reading
Reviews of books, products, and other things.
Brandon Sanderson’s latest book is a sequel of sorts to his fantastic Mistborn trilogy.
For any photographers out there, my thoughts on the Lastolite All in One Umbrella Kit.
My thoughts on Brandon Sanderson’s newest novel, “The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive”.
A selection of noteworthy links I've recently discovered…
Katherine Noyes thinks iPads are a passing fad. Lol! Here’s why that’s so funny…
IE9 has an IE7/8 mode. They don’t actually work like IE7/8. Because that would be too easy wouldn’t it. *cry*
I would jump for joy if all they did was add no new features and fix the god-awful broken mess they so jokingly call a User Interface. As in I would literally get off my seat and bound around the office as though someone had strapped pogo-sticks to my legs with over-bounding joy if Adobe release a new product that doesn’t infuriate in new and fundamentally diabolical ways. Because I don’t think I can take much more of Adobe’s “improvements” without booking a plane ticket, heading to their offices, and going on a rampage screaming “remember before you bought Macromedia? Remember when you gave a shit about users rather than shareholders? Remember when you were good? DO THAT, mother******!” I know of no other software that can make my blood boil just because it’s so self-righteous that it refuses to understand the OS basic Cmd+Tab behaviour properly.
Dave Shea talks about the state of fonts on the web, and where it’s all heading. The future is pretty.
An absolutely beautiful animation, in a number of ways.
If you’re living in the UK, and you’d rather the government didn’t hold a complete database of every phone call, text message, and website you ever go on, you need to sign this petition.
A spot on assessment of the differences between purists and perfectionists, and why you want to be the later rather than the former.
PHP 4.4.9 was rolled out today, and marks the end of development for PHP4. So everyone jump to PHP5, now. PHP5.3 alpha was released today and includes namespaces; a feature planned for PHP6, but apparently pulled forward.
Cuil is a new search engine with a larger index than Google, built by former Google employees. It’s very interesting. Here are my first impressions:
I’d love to see the numbers behind this, considering their market sector. At last, IE6 is starting to die!
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