The Sea of Ideas » No, HTML5 does not have a performance issue.

Excellent article about the so called performance issue of HTML5. This issue does not exist. If people insist that it does, you can point them to this link. http://vvg.gr/de

Adaptive, responsive, or progressive enhancement ⚒ Nerd

The terms *responsive web design* and *adaptive web design* are both used, and for everybody they seem to mean something else. This is confusing. So I'm looking for a final definition and I could use your help. http://vvg.gr/dd

The drunkard’s search | 90 Percent Of Everything

An interesting little post by Harry Brignull about the drunkard's search: the idea that we search for solutions on the wrong, easiest places. http://vvg.gr/dc

“just use technology $x” is a terrible answer to a question | Christian Heilmann

'If you want to teach people, make them understand the “why” and let them find their own “how”'. Great post by Chris Heilmann. I learnt my profession from people who took the time to explain, not by people who said I should use Sass. http://vvg.gr/db

Device testing ⚒ Nerd

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

Prototyping Responsive Typography

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

clear current page UX | High Performance Web Sites

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

Accessible Forms 2: Required Fields and Extra Information | Web Usability

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

Accessible Forms 1: Labels and identification | Web Usability

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

Design lessons for programmers, curated by top designers | Hack Design

A great site for nerds who want to understand design better: This site will send you one design lesson a week. That's a nice pace, no hurry. But after a year you've followed more than 50 lessons, which is quite a lot. http://vvg.gr/cu

Antiphonal Geometry · Harmony and proportion in responsive web design

"Today I want to acknowledge the basic challenge we accept as web designers – laying out content in what can seem to be a formless space." The start of the wonderful talk by Owen Gregory on A Responsive Day Out. http://vvg.gr/ct

Setting a performance budget - TimKadlec.com

Performance is an integral part of web design. So how do you make sure that you don't become sloppy with it during the process? Setting a *performance budget* early on and sticking to it sounds like a solid solution. http://vvg.gr/cs

Soapbox Envy CSS is not an amoral monster.

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

CSS Architecture | Appfolio Engineering

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

On pattern portfolios | Clear Thinking - The Clearleft Blog

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

Perspectives on Encrypted Media Extension Reaching First Public Working Draft - W3C Blog

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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New defaults in web design ⚒ Nerd

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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