July 2012
8 posts
Using Beyond Compare with Version Control Systems →
Beyond Compare can be configured as the external difference utility in many popular VCS applications.
Including git, it turns out, which is very handy for me.
“there’s an ambient mistake-click-rate on the web, like cosmic background...”
– The Incredible Click Rate of Nothing | Digital - Advertising Age
git ready » pull with rebase →
“only six per cent of tablet connectivity is off a mobile network. The rest is...”
– Luke Wroblewski on mobile first | Interview | .net magazine
Understanding Hardware Acceleration on Mobile... →
Another article about hardware acceleration, this time it covers the architectural background and reasons for avoiding certain css animation techniques and tips for how to achieve the same effect using less processor intense animations.
Understanding Hardware Acceleration on Mobile... →
And finally, a great deal more on the theory as to why adding certain CSS properties forces hardware acceleration.
“-webkit-transform:scale3d(1,1,1);-webkit-transform:scale3dZ(1);”
– High Performance Mobile Web - A couple of other methods of forcing hardeware acceleration. rotateZ was causing alignment issues in Chrome, but not in iOS Safari, for me.
CSS Variables with Jekyll and Liquid →
I’ve started to include something of a preprocessor when making sites with jekyll and liquid - to include variables for font, colour etc, and to have managed colour themes. This is the technique I used.
