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Canadian Chrome Web Store Incentives
The last month has been really exciting for the Chrome Web Store. Not only did we launch the new (and very much improved user experience), we also launch internationally. The Chrome Web Store is...
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HTML5 Guy + Gelaskin
By popular request – a few little additions to the HTML5 Guy! Now, with in SVG! I also created a skin for my laptop with this guy and had it printed at GelaSkins:
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Building A More App-y Web
Everyone wants “apps” these days, on their phone, their tablets, Apple, has the App Store to sell apps for the Mac. The demand is coming from all over the place, including consumers who have no idea...
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Happy Blue Beanie Day
Happy Blue Beanie Day from the HTML5 Hipster Credits: Seth Ladd for the HTML5 Guy idea. Kevin Cornell (via) Zeldman for the Beanie. Other Formats: SVG Adobe Illustrator PNG
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Introducing Video Player Sample
Have you ever wanted a fun and beautiful way to publish videos on your own site like the new 60 Minutes or RedBull.tv apps from the Chrome Web Store? I’m excited to announce the release of The Video...
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Thinking about the offline web
Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to make it easier for developers to build web applications that work offline, its a tough problem to solve. The web has the...
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Using meta viewport
Using meta viewport to optimize rendering on mobile devices What is the viewport? Figure 1 – If mobile browsers didn’t apply a default viewport, web pages would overfill the screen. Imagine if every...
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Meta viewport syntax – comma or semi-colon?
TL;DR: If you’re using a semi-colon to separate values in your viewport meta tag, your site may break! Use a comma instead. Browsers can be pretty forgiving most days, they do their best to fix our...
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Viewport target-densitydpi support is being deprecated
Support for target-densitydpi in the viewport meta tag was recently removed from WebKit and with Chrome for Android moving forward to current revisions on WebKit, this change is now rolling out in...
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Seeing the world through high DPI
At Google I/O this year every attendee got a brand new, beautiful Chromebook Pixel – for many, it was their first high DPI (a so called retina) laptop, and I think many people realized how, um, not so...
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High DPI: Tips and Tricks
During the presentation that John Mellor and I did at I/O this year covering building beautiful websites for high DPI displays, we summarized our talk into about 7 key points. If you follow these seven...
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Home Automation For Geeks
I’ve always had a fascination with home automation systems, things that make your life easier and computers that do the stuff that I’m too lazy to do. In college, I had my tiny little apartment in...
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A web UI for my Pi
My project this weekend on my home automation system was two-fold, first I wanted to clean up the code and make it a bit more object oriented, but I also wanted to add a web interface that is...
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Raspberry Pi Quick Start
Note: If you don’t see the scripts appearing inline, try refreshing. Last night, I needed to re-image the SD card for my Raspberry Pi to get things setup from a clean state. It’d been a few months...
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About: DOM Storage
One of my sessions at TechEd 2010 this year was about advanced standards support in Internet Explorer 8. The DOM Storage API (which used to be part of the HTML5 Spec but are now in their own spec),...
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Internet Explorer Developer Tools
One the the coolest features of Internet Explorer 8 that most developers don’t know about are the build in developer tools. Think Firebug, except for Internet Explorer, and built by the IE Team, so...
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Web Site Performance Resources
At TechEd last week, I presented a session that covered 20 Tips and Tricks for Writing Fast Web Applications. A couple of folks asked for more resources and where they could find more info, and I...
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Internet Explorer: Understanding Compat Features For Developers
The IE Engineering team posted a great blog post on the IE Blog yesterday about the compatibility features of Internet Explorer 9 that is really worth checking out – it explains in great depth about...
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Top 10 Design Mistakes: #10
As promised, I’m going to start my series on (as my friend Sarah called it), "10 Things I Hate About Your Website". And in reality, I admit to be guilty of many of these, so really I think I should...
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