The Best Of The Internets

A new web series “exploring how customer success creates successful products”. Keeping an eye on this one.

getUserMedia() is now in Microsoft Edge!

I’ve touched on this a bit in my Designing with Empathy presentation: “Empathy is just as important for us to practice as we interact with our team members”. Susan Robertson goes into the topic of empathy building for teams in this great post for A List Apart.

Adaptive images & more land in Firefox 38!

This is getting to be a habit: Google is shuttering its PageSpeed service

This is a fantastic presentation from Patty Toland (of Filament Group), given at the Smashing Conference in Santa Monica.

ESPN launched its responsive site. I still need to tuck into it, but here’s a little background as to why:

In January, 61 percent of ESPN’s roughly 94 million users in the United States were viewing content exclusively on mobile devices, with a good chunk of that viewing content on its mobile web version. For a massive company like Disney trying to make a shift to mobile like any other content-driven company, a test of a new mobile web strategy for a large property like ESPN is critical.

Testing “new” tech isn’t really a new thing for ESPN. Those of you who have been on the web a while might remember it being one of the first really big sites to embrace CSS and web standards, back in 2003.

Coding HTML emails is one of those necessary evils, but Ted Goas offers some helpful advice and links in this post.

This is an open letter to designers and developers who’d rather not work on email.

And then it was revealed:

Windows["Microsoft Edge"] = new Browser();

I gotta believe the origins of the name go back to IE8’s “version targeting” scheme. Remember this?

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />

A snarky, clever backhanded rant against the JavaScript-only crowd. Good for a chuckle:

They aren’t really on your site to read your article or check what time their train leaves - they’re really there to marvel at your buttery-smooth, hardware-accelerated 60fps animations and 1337 client-side javascript skillz that mean you can browse the entire site without ever once touching the server after the first page-load… just as long as you don’t mind that first page-load being 3MB in size, crapping out on unreliable mobile connections and taking whole seconds between DOM-ready and the UI actually appearing.