Today, after over two years, I’ll be leaving my position at Kisko Labs. I’ve started working on a new responsive advertising solution for smartphones and tablets called Adtile. Another big news is, that we have just received a $2.7 million funding to bring this product to the market. There’s also a story about us on today’s TechCrunch, so check that out too.
Read postResponsive Nav is a tiny JavaScript plugin which weighs only 1.6 KB minified and Gzip’ed, and helps you to create a toggled navigation for small screens. It uses touch events and CSS3 transitions for the best possible performance. It also contains a “clever” workaround that makes it possible to transition to height: auto, which isn’t normally possible with CSS3 transitions. The plugin, along the site, was released today on Smashing Magazine.
Read post (external link)Web typography, and digital typography in general, is a huge step forward in the history of typography. It has made setting type fast and easy compared with hand-setting metal type. Responsiveness, when added on top of this, makes this period of change we are living very fascinating. Not only is centuries old design theory being rewritten, but the process of how design happens is now changing too (as Mark Boulton states it).
Read postI were quite surprised few weeks ago when I found out with Matt, my colleague, that no one has tested thoroughly which mobile browsers support input type=file and how to reliably detect the support. After an hour of Googling we literally gave up and decided to find it out ourselves. The results are shared here to everyone for future reference.
Read postRemote Preview is a tiny JavaScript based tool which I built for our test lab. It allows you to preview any URL on large number of mobile devices simultaneously. Just enter a URL, hit Cmd+S, and new URL gets automatically loaded on each device. Remote preview works on platforms like Android, Blackberry, iOS, Meego, Symbian, Windows Phone and WebOS.
Read postNot so long after the device lab was born I realized that we need a much better way to store and charge all the 40+ devices. There didn’t seem to be any existing solution available which you could just buy, so I started thinking what would be the easiest way to do something like that myself. After some research I ran into this device testing station by 64 Digital and thought it looked like a perfect solution.
Read postI wrote an article to Smashing Magazine. It’s an in-depth guide about how to establish an open device lab. The article gives practical tips about things like location, how to get devices, what devices to get and what software to use. It would not have been possible to write it without the help from Shaun Dunne, Jeremy Keith, David Blooman and Andre Jay Meissner. Thank you guys, I owe you one.
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