mddw

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by mddw 14y ago
Quality code ages well. Old is not an excuse for crappy or slow, neither you can so easily disclaim your own code. Would you take fashion advices from someone with horrible and smelly clothes ?
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by mddw 14y ago
I'm always amazed to see how people who give advice (and good ones in this case) are totally unable to follow them on their websites. 296 http requests. 1.85mb transfered. Yslow grade D. So yeah, these are good advices. In fact, the OP shou
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by mddw 14y ago
At the begining, a responsive website was build around media queries. Then it was media queries and a fluid grid. Then it was media queries and a fluid grid and mobile first. Now it's media queries and a fluid grid and mobile first and buil
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by mddw 14y ago
I know this is Hacker news, but hacking, bootstrapping or kickstarting are slowly becoming meaningless buzzwords. Please please stop using them for anything.
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by mddw 14y ago
Simply because my admin pages don't use a lot of JavaScript. Some Ajax, some image resizing... straightforward stuff, no need of a library.
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by mddw 14y ago
When press is free, it's not free press anymore. If a website is not behind some kind of paywall, he lives on ads and must enter the crazy linkbaiting/SEO dance.
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by mddw 14y ago
TinyMCE have something like this, but yeah, it should be a easy-access function. The only downer for me : it uses JQuery, which I often avoid in admin pages.
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by mddw 14y ago
Clarke's lacks inline style and !important. Sure, they should be used with care, but !important is actually really useful in responsive webdesign.
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by mddw 14y ago
Show me some A/B testing showing a conversion increase when Retina proofing your website. Old people with an iPad3 won't see the difference between a non retina and a retina website. They'll see which is the fastest and the easiest to use (
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by mddw 14y ago
It should not. An outdated computer/browsers sucks at resizing jpegs. A two year old high end Android smartphone too. Minimizing HTTP requests, avoiding FOUC, using only one version of JQuery (or, even better, none), using CSS sprites... th
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by mddw 14y ago
Maybe better maps, but no street view, which is kind of a deal breaker for me as an "urban pedestrian".
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by mddw 14y ago
French here. The man behind this "hacking" was interviewed here : http://www.pcinpact.com/news/74060-exclusif-pcinpact-intervi... The 123456 pass was for a phone service dedicated to the Banque de France itinerant techies. The "hacker", w
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by mddw 14y ago
What I can't figure is why 2D transitions needs to be hardware accelerated to be smooth in mobile Safari. Neither why their mighty Nitro JavaScript Engine can't handle smoothly a setTimeOut based fade in/Out. Google Chrome on 8 years old ha
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by mddw 14y ago
VideoJs is free (ass free speech), Flowplayer is not : it's a badgeware.
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by mddw 14y ago
A 100% width <video> keeps its natural aspect ratio. Like an <img>.
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by mddw 14y ago
Globaly, yes. But if you want, per example, to target China, IE6 is mandatory. http://www.ie6countdown.com/ (and even Japan is at 4.7% according to this site. 4.7% is significant enough.)
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by mddw 14y ago
To make a <video> responsive, you only have to set its width to 100%... not a big deal. But yeah, I love flowplayer, it has a nice js API. Too bad it's not IE6 compatible.
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by mddw 14y ago
I don't know about the UK or the US, but in France, Bankruptcy don't always mean paying your company's debts. Small business often start as "limited responsability companies", where you can only loss your capital.
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by mddw 14y ago
Yes, it does. Not linear larger files, but larger files at constant quality. His examples are conveniently chosen to sell his book. 20% bigger is 20% too much for a non essential asset.
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by mddw 14y ago
Don't retinafy at all. You should not assume your user has LTE speeds on his shiny iPad. As long as webdevs won't have a better navigator.connection, retinafying should be avoided. On the web, loading times trump beauty.
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by mddw 14y ago
I agree. There're some prefixed properties which work on all major browser since forever (on a web scale)... but there're still a draft. Reading the minutes of the CSS group is enlightening : everything is really really slow. Moreover, lots