Cross-browser testing is a pain. Jonathan Snook walks us briskly through one of the most effective and efficient ways to approach it — provided you have a budget for licenses of VMWare Fusion and Windows.
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5 Useful but Neglected WordPress Functions
Back in 2009, Nathan Rice put together a nice little post on some very useful WordPress functions that are often forgotten:
- wp_mail()
- wp_loginout()
- esc_url()
- wpautop()
- fetch_feed()
Chrome + Firefox Users Outnumber IE Users!
“StatCounter’s July numbers show that Firefox and Chrome, when combined, now account for over 50 percent of web browsing. Technically, Firefox now has a 27.95 percent share, while Chrome has 22.14 percent. Combined, their 50.09 percent easily beat IE’s 42.45 percent.”
“Open” Web Browsers Now Majority Of Web — WebKit Continues Rise | TechCrunch.
Want Quality Audio on a Budget? Go Vintage
Mac OSX Lion Link Roundup from Think Vitamin
The folks at ThinkVitamin have put together a great little round up of top links for getting up to speed with OSX Lion:
14 Fantastic WordPress Plugins Featured at Awwwards
Awwwards.com has compiled a list of some pretty fantastic WordPress plugins, including plugins for:
- HMTL Newsletters
- Social Buttons
- SEO
- Google Site Maps
- Web Forms
- and more
Apple vs. Android: The iPhone Fights Back
In a recent survey of mobile phone consumers, Nielsen reports that a majority of mobile phone purchases are now smartphones. Additionally, they included this nice graphic which charts a resurgence of Apple’s iPhone, which has been gaining market share in recent months in its ongoing competition with Google’s Android platform.
From the article:
Android continues to be the most popular smartphone operating system, with 38 percent of smartphone consumers owning Android devices. However, while Android also leads among those who recently purchased a new smartphone, it is the Apple iPhone that has shown the most growth in recent months.
via In US, Smartphones Now Majority of New Cellphone Purchases | Nielsen Wire
iA Writer’s Typography and Color Scheme
For those who love iA’s Writer app, Justin Blanton has examined details of its visual and typographic design:
- Background: f5f6f6 (rgb(245,246,246)) with a touch of noise
- Font Color: #424242 (rgb(66,66,66))
- Font: Nitti Light
- Line Height / Leading: 1.5
Read more here: How to make any app look like iA’s Writer — Justin Blanton — Hypertext.net
3 Techniques to Serve Up Context Specific Images for Responsive Web Designs
For responsive web designers —
Chris Coyier lays out three currently experimental methods for serving specific images to a website user, depending on the user’s device: mobile, tablet, desktop.
The three he names include:
- CSS3 Image Replacement
- Javascript URL Rewrite
- PHP Cookie
Chris provides helpful links to more extensive discussions of these methods. It seems that each offers benefits and drawbacks. It will be interesting to watch this develop.
Using CSS Transitions to Smooth Media Queries
From Elliott Jay Stocks:
The basic premise is this: you use media queries to design responsive websites that adapt their layout according to browser width, and you constantly resize your browser to see how the site performs, but each time a query kicks in, there’s a harsh jump between the old styles and the new ones. Why not use some simple CSS transitions to smooth that jump by animating the resize?
via CSS transitions & media queries » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks.
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