Archive: Aug 2012

Since Facebook announced their “fully native” app, some speculation has centered on the idea that Apple may have made a native app a precondition for the upcoming integration of Facebook with iOS…

I recently did some research into the HTML that Facebook was using in the old version of its iOS app. More on that in a future post. In the meantime, I thought I’d share…

As long as I’m posting puzzles, riddle me this: what happens to the browser’s lookahead pre-parser if we find the holy grail of responsive images—an image format that works for all resolutions? What is…

For a few months now, I’ve been puzzling over the question of how to pick responsive images breakpoints. It has become a koan to me—no more answerable than the sound of one hand clapping. And…

30 Jan 2013 — This is not a stable specification. It will likely change. Do not use it in a production environment. See Peter’s comment below. 30 Jan 2013 — Per Nicholas Shanks’s suggestion,…

John Gruber mused today on why there is a disparity between the marketshare of Android and its share of web traffic. He theorized that “an awful lot of Android smartphones don’t really get used…