Tag Archives: Web Publishing
How to Inline images
November 6, 2018, by Luke Captain
Inlining images is useful for breaking up content and making an article more visually interesting, but when it comes to it, there’s more than one way to skin this cat. In this article, I’ll outline three ways to do it. Aligning with inline-block The first way you can inline images is simply by setting display:... Read More
Mobile web: back to the future
March 29, 2017, by ronan
In the early days of the mobile web, way back in the late late nineties and early noughties, there was only one technique available to publish web pages to mobile devices: bespoke mobile content. There was simply no way that desktop-focused content could be made to work unaltered on the mobile devices of the time, which... Read More
Transcoders – the technology we love to hate that will never go away
July 27, 2016, by ronan
Many years ago I remember a Google product manager saying that his product, the Google mobile transcoder, was the one product that everyone wished would go away... Read More
Bluetooth beacons beckon bold builders
October 28, 2015, by ronan
Bluetooth beacons have always been an alluring prospect for developers. Small, cheap and with a long battery life, they brim with potential save for one fatal flaw: they generally require users to have an app installed on their device to be noticed. Without a beacon-aware app, their presence generally goes unnoticed entirely... Read More
Faulty redirects, Google, and you
June 5, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Google has, for some time now, recommended various guidelines that should be observed when redirecting visitors from a desktop site to a mobile site. One such recommendation is that visitors who request a specific page on the desktop site should be redirected to the corresponding page on the mobile site, and should not be redirected to the homepage of the mobile site... Read More
