Although mod_pagespeed reached version one only today, there are already over 120000 sites using it. Including big ones like DreamHost, Go Daddy and content delivery networks like EdgeCast.
Crushing all our hopes for cloning a T-Rex, a New Zealand study has determined half bonds between DNA nucleotides would have broken after five hundred and twenty one years. Darn.
"Marketing should be added to the list of 'Permitted Uses for Third Parties and Service Providers' in Section 6.1 of the Tracking Definitions and Compliance Document." ...no. No it should not.
Marco Arment is trying his hand at doing an iOS magazine app the way it probably should be done: light-weight, low subscription cost, regularly updated, clean design. I really hope this catches on.
Red Bull Stratos is a scientific mission to 120,000 ft. Jumping from a stratospheric balloon one man will attempt to break the speed of sound in freefall.
Unfortunately, mission has been delayed due to weather conditions. Meanwhile, you can browse the site for interesting information or great piece of web-design on Mission Timeline page.
Manitoba Lotteries has turned to local companies to give an updated look to their branding and web presence. A slick design using some of the latest technology that web standards has to offer. A design by Winnipeg branding company ClarkHuot / Cocoon and website programming by Visual Lizard Inc. has given this Provincial organization a brand new and modern look without having to look outside their own backyard to find the talent to make their site a reality.
The site has been built using standards in HTML5 and CSS3. The advantage to this are some very nice displays for standards compliant browsers while maintaining all of the functionality still needed for those few non-standards hold-outs like Internet Explorer 8 and earlier.
Several of the design elements take advantage of some of the latest styling standards found in CSS3. For instance the hover elements of the navigation have a transition effect associated to them. No cumbersome javascript! The browser itself handles the process rather than relying on javascript to do it which makes the animations far smoother. Use of transparency for design elements is also more prevalent both as CSS transparency and transparent or translucent graphics.
Part of our job is to bring the designs for the client to an interface reality. This is a good example of bringing functionality to the pretty.
"The place to come for answers to your trickiest (and simplest) development and design questions about the Open Web Platform," backed by the World Wide Web Consortium, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Mozilla, Nokia, and more.
Think of it like Pinterest on Facebook. Introduced in a pilot this week, retailers can essentailly create catalogs, and it works alongside new "want" and "collect" buttons, similar to the "like" button.
There are many in browser prototyping tools these days. Easel stands out with clean interface, web fonts, preset elements and ability to export into HTML/CSS and images.
Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement today. As of this morning, there are more than a billion people using Facebook actively each month. I recommendgive a glance over their fact sheet... if you can. Not certain why they didn't provide it in a more web-friendly PDF format.
Google is experimenting with its Wallet service, to see if they can bring micropayments to individual webpages. This might be the solution original content creators have been looking for. This might also be the first step in being nickeled-and-dimed on the internet.
Everyone knows that YouTube's Content ID system is heavily abused, with few penalties for people making false takedown requests and few recourses for appeals. YouTube is bowing to some of the critizism, allowing uploaders to further dispute incorrect takedowns.
Michel Fortin has provided special versions of Safari for download, each using the original Web Kit framework that came with them bundled inside the application. Handy tool for Mac OS X web developers.
Pagination long articles on the web to bump up a site's ad views only frustrates users. Even browsers are fighting against it, like iwth Safari's "Reader" option.
Wait, someone else owns a patent for a extraneous, convoluted, near-useless method to collect other apps barcodes? Seriously, has Passbook actually been useful for anyone?
Yesterday, Google's stock rose just enough to make the search engine giant's market capitalization of $248.89 billion more than Microsoft's value of $247.27 billion.
Rumours are bubbling with more vigour that MicroSoft has their own hardware division working on a new phone/mobile device. I hope they do. Apple needs some competition to push innovation, because right now everyone is just rolling out iOS knock offs and swearing that they did all the work themselves.
After reading Nicolai Tesla's biography a few times this summer, I'm guessing Mr. Blaine has figured out how to keep the voltage from penetrating his skin, therefore not killing him instantly. Not my idea of a good time, but tune in if this is your bag.