Toolkits such as PhoneGap and Sencha Touch are hitting full stride with mature development frameworks that enable HTML5 developers and designers to make native iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry applications using their existing skill sets.
Adobe finally admits defeat years after Steve Jobs predicted it.
Mona Simpson provides, in daring yet delicate prose, the most beautiful and intimate portrait of Steve Jobs we will likely ever see.
This brought up such a wealth of emotion for me I had to pause several times to get through it. It may likely be the same for you.
If you do nothing else today, grab a box of tissues and read this.
News of Jobs’ passing first broke on Wednesday night. This issue was on newsstands by Sunday, at least, or maybe even Saturday night. Which means the Bloomberg Businessweek team must have been working like mad to make this happen, probably with very little sleep and almost assuredly under the duress of simultaneously mourning a man that many of them probably felt very strongly about. That effort is an incredibly fitting, touching and commendable tribute to Steve Jobs himself.
This looks fantastic. If I can find it, I’d love to pick it up.
Steve Jobs eye for the most subtle detail was impeccable. This article offers an inspiring view of Jobs as not just a CEO but a designer.
Absolutely spot on blog entry by Garrett Murray.
I’ve been using Gowalla since its launch in 2009. Between Foursquare and Gowalla, the latter always seemed more interesting to me in that it took the common check-in functionality and added a fun layer of collection. You collected and traded “items” (basically, icons) and earned “pins” Read More…
MIT-licensed, imageless, loading spinner which uses CSS3 where possible and falls back to VML for our buddy, IE6. Great little JavaScript project.
25 excellent tips
Good is the enemy of Great
Latin-1 is the enemy of UTF-8. You write web apps. You understand the web is global, and want to support internationalization. You want UTF-8.UTF-8 is extremely sane. Well, as sane as an encoding can be that features backwards-compatibility with ASCII.
A very helpful resource…
Firefox 5 includes improved support for CSS animations, HTML5 and Canvas. A full list of changes can be found in the release notes.
Helpful HTML email resource.
By Ryan Carson at Think Vitamin.