#ppk (6 links)
- The monetisation fetish - QuirksBlog quirksmode.org
"This monetisation argument is the fetish of the current age. Unfortunately it is utter and complete rubbish. The fundamental problem, as I calculated months ago, is that there’s just not enough money in the app store economy to support a meaningful number of independent developers." Calculations feel rather back-of-envelope but voices of dissent are useful.
- Combining meta viewport and media queries - QuirksBlog quirksmode.org
"If you want to make your websites ready for mobile, it’s best to combine <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> with width media queries. That will give your site the optimal width (as determined by the device vendor, who really ought to know), and your site will look the better for it."
- QuirksBlog: Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. quirksmode.org
"Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. Their problems with the App Store approval process are entirely their own fault and they deserve no commiseration." Rather extreme viewpoint from PPK (with some merit, though).
- QuirksBlog: Introduction to W3C Widgets quirksmode.org
Hadn't realised there was a W3C Widget Spec in the pipeline.
- Quirksmode - CSS - Contents and compatibility quirksmode.org
Dead handy.
- YUI Theater — PPK on the Professionalization of Frontend Engineering » Yahoo! User Interface Blog yuiblog.com
PPK has embarked recently on a project to create a professional organization for frontend engineers in his native Holland. The organization is called “Fronteers” (frontend engineers)