Content creation and moving in a contantly changing environment
This is post is entirely because I found some excellent text, directly from the W3, that sums up the issues I had with staying afloat in a competitive market (selling “skillz”) with a codebase that not so much changed as rotated every few months. I sympathise with anyone mad enough to create a Facebook app’…
From https://www.w3.org/wiki/Graceful_degradation_versus_progressive_enhancement:
“Parallaxin'” @ HTML5 Rocks http://disq.us/8c0sd7
A rather wordy but ultimately interesting look at Parallaxing images by Paul Lewis of HTML5 Rocks:
His conclusion don’t guess, test is obvious; but thankfully he also provides methods to put this idiom to practice!
H5R’s responsiveness was much better on my BlackBerry Curve (OS7) than my Dual-Core portable running Firefox 17; but looking at the article and what it tries to achieve I think that’s no surprise. The amount of code that’s pulled from syndication alone is eye-watering, thankfully it’s all very pretty!
Thanks Paul!
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