I've been wondering lately if we really should test on *as many* devices as possible. Shouldn't we better try to test on *as few* devices as possible instead? Here are some thoughts about this question. http://vvg.gr/da
A fantastic article about how to create a typography prototype in the browser, which, according to Viljami Salminen, should be the first step in the visual design process. http://vvg.gr/cz
Steve Souders and his performance study keep amazing me. When does the browser clear the current screen after you click on a link? The answer should convince you to remove all scripts from the HEAD of your document. http://vvg.gr/cx
In this second part of a series about making web forms accessible, Roger Hudson shows us how to mark up required fields. I like to reverse things: only provide mandatory fields, and clearly mark up optional fields as optional. http://vvg.gr/cw
Forms are essential to the web and essential to many businesses. So it's essential that everybody can use them. In this first part of a series about making forms accessible Roger Hudson shows us how to properly label form fields. http://vvg.gr/cv
Nice little rant/post about the fact that CSS is actually pretty good. http://undercaffeinated.tumblr.com/post/49878531442/css-is-not-an-amoral-monster
An incredible article by Philip Walton about CSS best practices. By defining the goals of good CSS architecture first he explains why some bad practices are bad, and why others are good. A very interesting, very thorough article! http://vvg.gr/cr
Now that we start to understand that photoshop documents are maybe not the best deliverables, we also start to wonder what the right deliverables should be. A pattern portfolio could be one of them. http://vvg.gr/cq
The W3C wants to publish a proposal for working with DRM on the web. In this post Jeff Jaffe explains why the W3C thinks it's a good idea to publish it. Be sure to read the comments, not everybody agrees with him. With reason. http://vvg.gr/cg
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I gave a talk about progressive enhancement a few times in the past year. I presented it as a set of new defaults for web design. At the same time I explained that these defaults are not new. Published as an article now on my own blog http://vvg.gr/cf
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