I’ve just returned from a few days in Amsterdam, where I was fortunate enough to be part of the first (and only?) CSS Day, an event organised by the team behind Mobilism and Fronteers, who are consummately professional and deserve huge congratulations and thanks for all their work. The conference had the aim of diving deep into CSS through each of the eight speakers discussing a module (or modules) of the CSS spec. My chosen subject was Animations and Transitions; my slides are online now, video should follow shortly.
The day before the conference I gave a whole-day workshop on Responsive Web Design, teaching design and development approaches and — more importantly — a new workflow more adapted to the demands of the new way of working. I was helped hugely in this by the fact that I’d recently finished reading Stephen Hay’s new book, Responsive Design Workflow.
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I recently ran into a problem involving the removeEventListener() method, which caused me a good half an hour of confusion before a lightbulb appeared above my head and I was enlightened by a solution — a solution which, it must be said, is very obvious in hindsight. So doubtless many people know this already, but I’m recording it here along with another approach I thought of afterwards, in the hope that they may be useful to someone in the future.
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Next month I’ll have the pleasure of taking part in CSS Day in Amsterdam, not once, but twice. On Friday 14th June I’ll be on stage alongside a truly stellar line-up of speakers: Eric Meyer, Bert Bos, Stephen Hay, Divya Manian, Tab Atkins, Daniel Glazman and Lea Verou. Each of us will be looking in detail at a specific module (or modules) of the CSS spec; my talk will be on the Animations and Transitions modules. If you’re into CSS in a big way, this day is one you won’t want to miss.
On the previous day, Thursday 13th June, I’ll be giving a one-day Responsive Web Design workshop, where I’ll be teaching the full process of creating a responsive website: planning and strategy, prototyping, tools, design deliverables, and, of course, coding. Alternatively, if your CSS is not quite up to scratch and you need a refresher before the conference, Eric Meyer will be giving a workshop which will teach you all you need to know.
Each workshop costs €300, and the conference day costs €250 (Dutch VAT of 21% will be added to both). Full details, programme and tickets are all on CSSDay.nl, along with a nice little Easter egg I found out about today: click on a speakers name on the Programme page to see some live examples of their chosen subject!
Oh, and as if my conference and some fantastic talks weren’t enough, as a bonus you get to spend a few days in beautiful Amsterdam. I’m really excited to be a part of this, and hope to see you there!
I recently had call to do a factory reset on my phone, and as I began the process of reinstalling all my apps again decided to try an experiment instead: to see if mobile web apps (or, sites) were up to the job of replacing native apps. With the forthcoming release of Firefox OS this is something I’ve been very curious about, but within days I was back to using native again. I’ll explain why, but lay out some of the more positive findings before I do. Note that I was using Chrome on Android for my experiment, but I think the findings should hold true for most browser and OS combos.
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Last week on Twitter I shared some browser and OS statistics from a site I manage. These turned out to be quite popular, so I’ve decided to expand on them a little further, and also add the stats from another site I manage, to broaden the base numbers a little. I’m not trying to make any point here, just sharing a little bit of analytics data. If there’s any interest in my doing so, I’ll provide further updates in the future; leave a comment if there’s anything in particular you’d like to know.
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I’m very excited to be holding a copy of my new book, The Modern Web, in my hands, and nervous to see what everyone else thinks when it goes on sale next week. If you’d like a copy you can get a whopping 40% off when you pre-order through the publisher in the next week — plus every print copy comes with a FREE eBook. I hope you’ll consider pre-ordering, and look forward (guardedly!) to hearing what you think.