My CSS Starter Kit: Font loading and usage
Rather than let font loading remain at the mercy of the network we'll use Font Face Observer to dynamically load the fonts and swap them when ready. This may cause a little user cognitive dissonance...
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My CSS Starter Kit: Getting Started
One of the things I would have killed for when I came back to doing (serious) web design was a set of guidelines, stylesheets and examples of how to use responsive design and typography on the web....
Progressive Subcompact Publications: Links, resources, patterns and ideas
Responsive Web Design Responsive Web Design — Ethan Marcotte, A Book Apart Responsible Responsive Design — Scott Jehl, A Book Apart Going Responsive — Karen McGrane, A Book Apart Responsive Design:...
Progressive Subcompact Publications: UI for the performance obsessed
As consumers of information we’ve all become more demanding. We want the content faster and we want to be engaged with the content we access online. PSPs should be no different in their performance to...
Progressive Subcompact Publications: Structuring and Styling Content
We want our content to look awesome regardless of the device. How do we accomplish this? A good starting point is Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Web Design (or whatever Responsive Web Design book is your...
Progressive Subcompact Publications: Annotations
I still remember the first time I made an annotation from a Kindle book available in their public site (kindle.amazon.com). I saw the possibilities as limitless until I realized that there were...
Progressive Subcompact Publications: Beyond Offline
The service worker script we discussed in the prior section is the core of a PSP but there’s way more we can do to make our reading experiences behave more like native applications. Some of these...
Progressive Subcompact Applications: How they work
How does this all work? # At the core of our progressive subcompact publications is a service worker. This woker is a type of shared worker and it also works as a network proxy for your requests, you...
Progressive Subcompact Publications: Introduction
For the past few months I’ve been working at Google building a set of instructor-led courses on how to build progressive web applications. This has made me think of how to push some of these concepts...
Slowdown and New Projects
I started a contract in early June that has swallowed all my time and as a result there have been fewer blogs and, I hate to admit it, with a lower quality than I would like. I also have a few...