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  • dConstruct

    Off to dConstruct tomorrow, my first industry related conference. Really looking forward to it, especially seeing Merlin Mann’s and John Gruber’s talks.

    Probably a bit late but any Inspect Element readers heading to Brighton? @tkenny me on Twitter if you are!

  • The Wilderness Downtown, an HTML5 Masterpiece

    Watch and enjoy. More details of how it works here including street detection within Google Maps Street View.

    Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.

    Goodbye Flash (one day).

  • The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

    Erping Zhu, had people read a passage of digital prose but varied the number of links appearing in it. She then gave the readers a multiple-choice quiz and had them write a summary of what they had read. She found that comprehension declined as the number of links increased—whether or not people clicked on them. After all, whenever a link appears, your brain has to at least make the choice not to click, which is itself distracting.

    Interesting findings into adding links into passages of text. We all know that links are fundamental to the way the web works but linking too frequently will distract your users and make articles less engaging and more difficult to read. Something to consider, especially if you’re a blog writer.

  • Use of CSS3 Goodness for GMail on the iPad

    An interesting note when writing translations in CSS3 for the iPad:

    … it seems that 2D translations are not hardware-accelerated. But, since any 2D translation is equivalent to a corresponding 3D translation with the same translations in the x and y and no translation in the z axis, it is easy to use a hardware accelerated translate3d(x, y, 0) transform instead of a non-hardware accelerated translate(x, y) transform.

  • Advice for Beginners

    Good to see an article directed towards beginners, offering the best advice as they get started from people who have already been in that position and succeeded. Here are a pick of what I thik is crucial advice for everyone as well as beginners:

    Never stop learning

    I can’t stress this enough. I’m actually in the process of writing a post about this is so important so stay tuned.

    Comment your code

    You WILL forget work you’ve done in the past (I do all the time). Good commenting will help remind you what you did.

    Think of the visitor who is trying to find out something. They need to understand what’s going on, not just be impressed.

    This is a crucial part of design that people, especially website owners, often overlook. It’s your job as a designer to educate your client/boss on this because they’ll most certainly be looking it through their eyes and not from the point of view of the visitors’.

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