Diigo Bookmarks 11/14/2013

2013年11月14日 著

• Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different - Cultural, Linguistic & Technical Factors

  "Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, beautiful shrines, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and magazines are the envy of designers worldwide. Yet for some reason practically none of this mastery has been translated into digital products, in particular websites, most of which look like they hail from around 1998."

  tags: webdesign lol

• Why we need responsive images: Part Deux - TimKadlec.com

  "While page weight and load time are the most commonly cited examples, those clearly aren't the only metrics suffering when we serve images that are too large to the browser."

  tags: rwd image browser

• Responsive images - end of year report | HTML5 Doctor

  "Given that src-N addresses more usecases than WebKit's proposed dpi-switching srcset and the similarity of syntax, I wish WebKit would simply alias their nightly code and ship the minimal dpi-switching src-N given above (so src-1 instead of srcset)"

  tags: html rwd image

• A Book Apart, Sass for Web Designers

  "A reluctant convert to Sass, Dan Cederholm shares how he came around to the popular CSS pre-processor, and provides a clear-cut path to taking better control of your code (all the while working the way you always have). From getting started to advanced techniques, Dan will help you level up your stylesheets and instantly start taking advantage of the power of Sass."

  tags: book sass

• Grade components, not browsers | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA

  "Given the speed at which technologies are now being implemented in browsers, it's unhelpful to compare them in these broadly-defined categories that represent "good" and "bad;" it's more complicated than that."

  tags: browser

• Cutting down on vendor prefixes | 456 Berea Street

  "If you, or your clients, have loads of users on old versions such as Firefox 3.6 or iOS 2.1, you may need to use more prefixes if progressively enhancing the visual appearance is not acceptable."

  tags: css

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