Cameron Moll's Blog, page 22
May 18, 2011
Spritemapper, a CSS Spritemap Generator
Well now this sounds pretty handy. Merges multiple images into one and generates CSS positioning for the corresponding slices.
May 11, 2011
Flux CSS3 Slider
Hardware-accelerated image transitions using CSS3, which, as described in the readme on GitHub, "improves performance on less powerful devices such as mobiles and tablets."
Indeed, this functions quite well on both my iPad and iPhone.
Guide to the App Galaxy
This is a really nice design effort by Google — fun keyboard navigation, embedded fonts, etc. Content-wise, however, I'm a little lost as to the point of the site, and tab after tab of text isn't helping, either.
May 10, 2011
Carousel: Instagram on Your Mac
This is some lovely UI work. It's like Twitter for Mac, but for Instagram pics.
/via @chartier
Adaptive Web Design by Aaron Gustafson
Practical ways that you can apply progressive enhancement principles using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Aaron is a fantastic writer and speaker (and just a pleasure to be with in person, I might add). Needless to say, I've purchased a copy.
The HTML5 Switch
Summary: There's really no reason to postpone switching all your sites — big or small, existing or new — to the HTML5 doctype at a minimum. I support this argument and began doing this months ago. Read the full article for reasoning.
Hiring: Lead Front-End Developer at Stussy
Throwback time: I wore Stussy clothing frequently as a Bay Area teen. They've made a strong comeback the last few years, and now they're seeking someone who "loses sleep looking at gorgeous websites" and "spams your friends regularly with some 'awesome' use of jQuery."
Why Every Child in America Needs an iPad
Mike Elgan:
Everybody's asking: Are iPads healthy for children? I'm here to tell you: That's the wrong question.
The right question is this: Is the iPad a healthy replacement for TV? And I believe the answer is a resounding yes.
While the utility of any device — TV, iPad, or other — lies in the content choices made by the viewer, I like Mike's thinking. For example, all four of my sons absolutely love the BrainPOP app for iPad/iPhone. Every day features something new about music, history, culture, and so on. They'll recite facts to us that they learned in a BrainPOP episode weeks earlier.
iPad, in some ways, has become an educational replacement for time that may have been spent watching TV. That isn't to say that the other educational stuff they watch on TV (e.g. Martha Speaks and Dinosaur Train) is mind-numbing and useless. It just means iPad can be a nice alternative — or complement — to TV time.
Bento Book
Core77:
The Bento Book is a system of devices that work together… kind of like Voltron. The phone, tablet, hard drive, and battery dock into the base of the laptop to essentially form half of it. The phone becomes the track pad, the tablet becomes a touch screen keyboard/input area, somewhat like a Nintendo DS. Content can be surfed on the tablet, and then say you want to modify that content, or interact with it more deeply, you dock the tablet into the screen to continue working with it in a more focussed way. Then you can pop the phone out to take it all on the road.
Exceptional concept. Only actual testing would tell if this is really useful or not, but I could see myself using something like this that combines my iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Air into a single cohesive, portable system.
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