PUBLIC MARKS with tag webdesign

Startups, Wanderlust & Life Hacking — Medium

datedropper is a jQuery plugin that provides a quick and easy way to manage dates for input fields.

An experiment to show how designing for The Fold can be treacherous. Each line below is a past-visitor's viewport height. Take care when making assumptions about people's screen sizes on the web.

In 2003–2004, I worked for the TILE project, a university research program in accessibility of “learning objects” in education that was funded by Industry Canada. My topic was “best practices in online captioning,” about which little has been written. I was hoping to have a few demonstration projects to show you, but then again, demonstration projects are pretty much all we've got in online captioning. I did write the following chapters.

Les référentiels d’accessibilité indiquent que les sous-titres synchronisés sont des éléments nécessaires à l’accessibilité des vidéos. Ce besoin concerne notamment les personnes en situation de déficience auditive, mais également les personnes ne maîtrisant pas la langue du contenu, ou ayant généralement une compréhension améliorée du contenu vidéo lorsqu’il est sous-titré.

In an ideal world, every camera, screen, and printer would display color in the same way. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works in practice.

Luke Wroblewski went on a pretty great twitter tear debunking the persistent myth of "the fold" in contemporary (read: multi-device) web design. For posterity, here are all of the tweets including links to the sources.