Tag Archives: HTML5
Understanding web page weight
April 16, 2015, by ronan
Page weight is the gravity of the web—a relentless downwards drag, ever present and utterly unavoidable. Understanding it is a critical aspect of a successful web strategy. We’ll be doing a series of articles on page weight covering background, measurement and reduction. In this article, part I of the series, we’ll talk about the importance of page weight... Read More
Who wants the Pointer Events API? Everyone, nearly
March 24, 2015, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
The Pointer Events API is an HTML5 API with an interesting history. It's an open API that Microsoft developed as an alternative to the more widely supported Touch Events API. Introduced with IE10 for Windows 8, it defined input events unified across Mouse, Touch and Pen input devices... Read More
HTML5 best practice Web apps: Quartz
November 3, 2014, by mobiThinking
David Jensen is the head of development at popular UK free newspaper Metro. He has overseen the migration of metro.co.uk to become a responsively-designed web app. With his first-hand experience of HTML5 and web apps, mobiThinking asked Jensen about his favourite web app (other than Metro)... Read More
Roundup: Smashing Conference 2014
September 29, 2014, by paddy2k
Every year the team behind Smashing Magazine invites web professionals from all over the globe to join them in their home town of Freiburg, Germany for two days of talks and discussion about the web, hosted by Jeremy Keith. The Gothic surrounds of the Historical Merchants' Hall stood in juxtaposition with the cutting edge technologies under discussion by the attending web designers and JavaScript developers... Read More
