Conference organiser's handbook

Organisation of simple and cheap web design and development conferences.

Twelve steps for saving webOS

About the future of webOS.

A quick Siri note

Voice assistants and accessibility.

Position: fixed revisited

What mobile and tablet browsers do to position: fixed.

Browser stats for December, Q4, and 2011

Browser stats according to StatCounter.

The four device classes

An approach to classify the diversity of devices.

The vendor prefix mess

A solution to the vendor prefix problem.

Mobilism 2012

The web conference concentrating on mobile web design and development.

Face opera

On the rumour that Facebook is going to buy Opera.

Apple’s .mobi insanity

Mobile Safari ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains.

Mobilism 2013

Education and entertainment about the mobile web.

Vexing Viewports

The trouble with pixels.

CSS gradients

A study of CSS gradient syntax.

CSS selectors: mobile table

Browser compatibility overview.

Browser stats for Q4 2012 and all of 2012

“Non-WebKit browsers are losing market share everywhere.”

IE11 to disguise itself as WebKit (and not Firefox!)

What an article on the next IE version got wrong.

Blink

“It’s likely that Blink will indeed speed up progress.”

initial-scale=1 makes Safari iOS react to orientation change

A solution to an annoying iOS problem.

More about scaling in iOS

Combining ‘width=device-width,initial-scale=1‘ does work!

screen.width is useless

“Analytics packages don’t know what they’re talking about.”

Media query/RWD/viewport survey results

Answers of 1,251 web developers.

Installable web apps

“The mobile browser ‘bookmark’ function should become ‘install’ and place an icon on the home screen.”

Suppressing the 300ms click delay

How to get rid of the delay on touch screens.

A browser for a watch

How to enter a URL on a watch and other questions.

CSS media queries

What works and what doesn't in popular mobile browsers.

A new Microsoft browser?

Why web developers should support the ‘new browser’ narrative.

The problem with Angular

“Angular is aimed at corporate IT departments rather than front-enders.”

Angular and templating

“Client-side templating is wrong.”

Chrome continues to fall apart at brisk pace

“There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers.”

Safari iOS bigger than Firefox; non-Google Chromia bigger than Safari Mac

Browser stats across all devices.

Tired of Safari

“Google’s refusal to implement the pointer events is a victory for Apple.”

Tools don’t solve the web’s problems, they ARE the problem

“Web does not have to emulate native, web has to capitalise on its own strengths.”

Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat

“The web should not compete with native when it comes to complex, app-like structures.”

Stop pushing the web forward

“I want a moratorium on new browser features for about a year or so.”

“If you can’t do without tools you’re not a web developer.”

Web development as a hack of hacks

What we should avoid in the future.

Making input type=date complicated

Custom vs. native date pickers in web browsers.

What is a web developer?

What knowledge and skills does it take to be one?

Chrome breaks visual viewport, again

What happened and what it means for web developers.

Web Developer Representation in W3C

Let’s help web developers to get a seat at the W3C table.

The CSS mental model

Let’s figure out how to explain CSS to JavaScripters.

CSS4 is here!

Let’s bring desperately-needed attention to CSS.

New browser on the block: Flow

Interview with the architect of the new browser/engine.