RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Today we lost one of the founders of the modern personal computer, a man who put technology in the hands of the average consumer and whose impact on the history of technology cannot be overestimated.
As a long term user of Apple products I was shocked and deeply saddened to hear the news, Apple users around the world are feeling a depth of emotion never seen before following the death of a business leader. In truth Steve Jobs was not just the founder, CEO or chairman of a technology company, he contributed to and enhanced the lives of millions through the products produced he created at Apple and the movies produced by Pixar.
RIP Steve, you will be missed.
Categories: Apple Tags: Apple, Steve Jobs
Over The Air 2011 Mobile Web Notes & Wrap-up
I recently attended the Over The Air mobile conference at Bletchley Park (please donate), the event was free to attend and very well organised with plenty of free food and drink as a bonus. My focus for the conference was the mobile web and I’ve compiled links to topics mentioned in presentations I attended in that area, they’re well worth a look so I thought I’d share them here…
Responsive Web Design
- Responsive Web Design Article
- Pragmatic Responsive Design
- Responsive Images code on github
- Presentation on Media Queries
Various Links
- Good presentation by Opera guy
- Using the viewport meta tag to control layout on mobile browsers
- YSlow Firefox Extension – shows why pages load slowly
- Full Opera Mobile Web Optimization Guide
- Making an iPad HTML5 App and Making it Really Fast
Useful Sites/Tools
Some W3C links…
- Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Relationship between MWBP and WCAG
Categories: Development, Mobile Web, Web Design Tags: css, HTML5, JavaScript, media queries, Mobile, mobile web, opera, progressive enhancement, responsive web design, w3c