Dispatches From The Internets

Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement at Beyond Tellerrand

After a whirlwind trip to 4 countries (5 if you count Florida), I am back to a rock-solid internet connection and got a moment to take a breath and post my slides from the first stop on the trip: Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany.

On Adaptive vs. Responsive Web Design

In the past few months, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time discussing the differences between the “adaptive” and “responsive” web design philosophies. Don’t get me wrong, I love having these discussions, but I felt the need to set the record straight: these two philosophies are not at odds, despite numerous blog posts and tweets to the contrary.

Progressive Enhancement and ExpressionEngine

This past week was a bit of a whirlwind as Kelly and I flew to DC for a few meetings and then to NYC for the ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter Conference. We had a blast at the conference, meeting new people, seeing old friends, and eating a ton of great food. While we were there, we got name-dropped by the affable EllisLab CEO, Leslie Comacho in his keynote address for our work on the forthcoming native rich text editor for ExpressionEngine and we also met up with the always charming Jeremy Keith (and the lovely Jessica Spengler) to hatch some R4G plans that will be unveiled in the next week or so.

From “Mobile Friendly” to “Mobile First”

If you’re reading this on a desktop browser, you may not have noticed, but we just turned this blog on it’s head, design-wise. Those of you browsing on a tablet or mobile device, however, should be enjoying a much more comfortable reading experience. Now that’s not to say that we’ve been giving mobile the short end of the stick before pushing out the new code, but our approach to mobile has changed drastically since the redesign of this blog early last year and we’re really happy to be able to bring the lessons we’ve learned back here.

On Redirecting Mobile Traffic

While perusing the latest Costco email, I stumbled onto a pretty sweet looking mini-greenhouse and decided to click through to read more about the product. Unfortunately for me, I was on my phone and Costco is not particularly savvy about how they handle the redirection of mobile traffic to their “mobile friendly” site. Instead of landing on the product page as I should have, I was redirected to the mobile landing page.

Now Read This IX

Apologies for not posting links last week…between the holiday on Monday and spending all of Tuesday without power, I got a little behind. Here are some highlights from the last two weeks:

Now Read This VIII

Last week, Steve Jobs resigned and Twitter launched a resource for quickly building prototypes and apps. Here’s the roundup of those and other links you’ll want to check out:

Now Read This VII

In this week’s link round-up, we bring you the reasoning behind Typekit’s font-loading strategy, two new CSS grid systems, a fantastic mash-up of Peanuts with Jaws, and the story of a woman ejected from a Houston bar for tweeting something the General Manager didn’t like. Happy reading!