Posts tagged “projects & products” 
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From “Mobile Friendly” to “Mobile First”
You may not have noticed, but we just turned this blog on it’s head, design-wise. Those of you browsing on something other than a desktop browser should now be enjoying a much better reading experience. Here’s what’s changed and how we did it.
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What Do You Look For in an Browser-based Rich Text Editor?
Over the years we’ve used a number of different rich text editor scripts, but we’ve never felt 100% happy with any software we’ve used. We want to take a step back and look at the big picture before we audition (or build) another one. Can you help us?
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Experimenting with Grids Using eCSStender
In preparation for the launch of 10K Apart (Responsive Edition) from Mix Online and An Event Apart, I’ve been feverishly working on a modest implementation of the proposed CSS3 Grid Alignment module using eCSStender.
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Retreat, remembered
As many of you know, we officially launched our new training series, Retreats 4 Geeks, with a HTML5 & CSS3 retreat co-led by Eric Meyer and me. The event was held in an amazing cabin on the side of a mountain in Gatlinburg, TN and, as you can probably guess, it was downright magical.
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I (Finally) Wrote a Book
Over the last five years, one of the most frequent questions I’ve gotten has been “When are you going to write a book?” Well, I did. Are you happy now?
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On Requiring Facebook for Login
Last night, I had a great conversation with Jeff Croft about the pros and cons of requiring a Facebook account for login. It's a trend that seems to be on the rise and I, personally, don't think it's a good long term strategy.
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HTML5 & CSS3 on the Appalachian Trail
We’re very excited to announce that our flagship training series, Retreats 4 Geeks, is returning in 2011! We’ll be kicking things off April 8th with 3 days of HTML5 and CSS3 with Eric Meyer and our own Aaron Gustafson.
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The Challenges and Freedoms of Creating a Chrome App
As Aaron mention last week, we recently developed a Chrome App for wikiHow.com; in reality though we built a modern web app that leveraged many features of HTML5 and CSS3.
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We Built a Chrome App
Yesterday saw the launch of the Chrome App Store and, along with it, an app we created called the wikiHow Survival Kit.
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Be a good localStorage neighbor
While working on the client-side caching mechanism in eCSStender, I realized the dangers of
localStorage.clear()and worked to come up with a solution.