“It’s like this: The browser’s doomed, because apps are the future. Wait! Apps are doomed because HTML5 is the future. I see something almost every day saying one or the other. Only it’s mostly wrong.”
It’s not about why would apps win over browsers or vice versa. It’s how they win on their own and how it may change in the future.
“Over the last few years, we’ve seen a fundamental shift away from discussion forums and other niche communities to social networks and aggregators. In a 20-minute talk at ROFLCon, 4chan and Canvas founder Chris Poole characterized this as a shift from the interest-based web to the friend-based web. Poole is concerned that the web is losing its emotional depth, a richness that comes from lurking, failing and learning before finding your place in a community. The difficulty gave it more meaning, and the resulting communities added far more value to the web than they extracted.” Andy Baio
“These tailored suggestions are based on accounts followed by other Twitter users and visits to websites in the Twitter ecosystem. We receive visit information when sites have integrated Twitter buttons or widgets, similar to what many other web companies — including LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube — do when they’re integrated into websites. By recognizing which accounts are frequently followed by people who visit popular sites, we can recommend those accounts to others who have visited those sites within the last ten days.” - “Basically, every time you visit a site that has a follow button, a “tweet this” button, or a hovercard, Twitter is recording your behavior.”
“Implementation on the browser side takes place once; authoring will take place thousands of times. And according to the design principles of HTML5 itself, author needs must take precedence over browser maker needs. Not to mention those other HTML5 design principles: solve real problems, pave the cowpaths, support existing content, and avoid needless complexity.” by Mat Marquis
ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.
All those optimisation techniques we learned in the 90s—and even wacky ideas like lowsrc—are back in fashion. Everything old is new again.
Neue Haas Grotesk — History (via Font Bureau)
The design of a signage typeface (via I love typography, the typography and fonts blog)
“Doch je bedeutender Marketing auf Facebook wird, desto mehr achten Mitbewerber, Nutzer und auch Facebook selbst darauf, dass die Spielregeln eingehalten werden. Dazu gehören nicht nur eine Vielzahl an Gesetzen, sondern auch die umfangreichen Nutzungsbedingungen und Richtlinien des sozialen Netzwerks. Wenn Sie gegen Vorschriften verstoßen, drohen Ihnen Abmahnungen oder schlimmstenfalls auch der Verlust ihrer mühsam aufgebauten Facebookpräsenz.”
Designing Landing Pages That Work: Call to Actinon, Headline, Simplicity, Eye Flow, Relevance, Reduce the Risk for Taking Action, Scarcity, Trust Elements. (via Six Revisions)
