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The Importance of Safari’s Reader Button
With the rise of the new “Retina Display” monitors screen resolution is now minuscule. With is awesome for watching HD movies and browsing HD photos, but reading… is difficult. In the past I found myself clicking CMD+ on most sites just so I could comfortably read the screen. But that’s usually a bad idea of…
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How to Debug WordPress
I recently stumbled across this nifty gem in the WordPress Codex: Debugging in WordPress. Basically, php has ways to suppressing errors, and by default WordPress will do this for you as well. Why? Well, you don’t want everyone who stumbles onto your site to see all the errors your code is making. The problem is…
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Responsive Design – WordPress NYC
In case you missed it, there _were _60 people on the waiting list… Here’s the talk I gave at WPNYC in April about Responsive Web Design. I spliced out my piece from the full video, but if you’d like what you see here, Sonja did a great job canvasing the Responsive Design conversation. My talk…
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Responsive Web Design – Solving the Pitfalls of `Display: None`
One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard about Responsive Web Design is that sites built to be responsive take too long to load. We may have reached the age of broadband with our desktops but with bandwidth throttling and pay-per-byte mobile plans we really need to consider every pixel and every bit of code we…
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WordPressNYC Show Notes: Books to Read About Responsive Web Design and Why
To prepare for my presentation at the WordPressNYC Meetup this past week — aside from getting to play with a tons of cool web toys and techniques — I read a lot of articles and books. While there are a lot of articles out there, these books really cover the core issues and flesh out…
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Interesting IE vs Chrome Trend
TL;DR Why does IE still have a market share? It’s the fault of your IT department… I’ve been doing some research for my upcoming talk at WPNYC where I’ll be discussing Responsive/Adaptive Web Design. While preparing to talk about why it’s important to be inclusive with your design I checked the daily browser distribution from…
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A Small Thought About Adaptive Web Design vs Responsive Web Design
Responsive Web Design, which is built on the principals of Graceful Degradation. Whereas… Adaptive Web Design is built on the principals of Progressive Enhancement. Whhahaatt? Graceful Degradation is when you build your site for modern browsers, then find solutions to make the experience passable for people using Internet Explorer or Mobile Browsers. Progressive Enhancement starts…
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Why I tried Twitter’s Bootstrap and What I Didn’t Get from It
**Edit: **Now that Bootstrap has been around a while I’ve updated my thoughts. ~=~=~=~=~ The inspiration for Twitter’s Bootstrap is pretty awesome – a predefined reusable modules for building beautiful, elegant sites. Who wouldn’t want that? There are so many common design patterns we front-end developers use throughout our work, why not put them all…
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Form Input “Placeholder” Attribute Polyfill
This is a jQuery-dependent polyfill for the placeholder input attribute. If you’re relying on “placeholder” pop this code in your page and you don’t have to let IE users hanging in the breeze.
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Jack Reichert 