A handful of the many screens your site needs to handle. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com This week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has seen the arrival of dozens of new devices from tablets to televisions . Some of these newfangled gadgets will soon be in the hands of consumers who will use them to access your website
Just a few of the many screens on the web Last time we sent you over to Brad Frost’s blog it was for a slideshow about Building a Future-Friendly Web .
A responsive movie embed working on a Sony Ericsson (photo by Anders Andersen) In order to make responsive designs successfully adapt to any screen size, you need to properly scale not just headlines and text elements, but images and other media. We’ve already covered a number of solutions for images , but what about other elements like video?
Windows Phone on an iPhone As part of its effort to win over iOS and Android fans, Microsoft has created a very slick web-based demo of its new Windows Phone Operating system. Designed to run in your iPhone or Android web browser, the site effectively replicates the company’s new “Metro” user interface in HTML. The demo is a clever effort to show people what the Metro UI looks like without the need to set foot in a store.
Been feeding your site too many JavaScript donuts? The web is getting fatter, as much as 25 percent fatter in the last year alone
Developer Dave Rupert helps you keep your cats properly scaled If you’ve spent any time at all playing with responsive images (or adaptive images ) you’ve probably noticed something about small screens — portrait-oriented images take on a much greater importance. The simple fact is that on the vertically-oriented small screen, taller images are larger and, thus, assume a greater importance
Sometimes the best way to figure out what works is to see what doesn’t. That’s the thinking behind WTF Mobile Web , a new site that tracks examples of terrible mobile web design and user experience
Flash Player running in Firefox for Mobile Adobe may be abandoning Mobile Flash , but Mozilla is pushing forward with Flash in Firefox for Mobile. In addition to the new native Android UI we recently showcased , the latest nightly builds of Firefox for Android now offer experimental support for the Flash plugin. If you’d like to give it a try, head over to the Mozilla nightly builds page and download a copy of Firefox for Android (note that if you have the beta release installed you’ll need to remove that first)