larrydavid

Not really. What you are describing is commonly referred to as 'liquid'. See here for the difference between the terms responsive/liquid/adaptive (http://liquidapsive.com/).

There is a lot of misinformation/misunderstanding surrounding responsive web design, coupled with a decent amount of middlebrow dismissal. It is not simply just shrinking the page down.

And the use of media queries, or 'stupid grid nonsense' as you call it, is just one piece of the puzzle.

Whenever there is a topic concerning Bill Gates, there always seems to be someone in the discussion section that will find a way to shoehorn Steve Jobs into a comment, however irrelevant. An interesting phenomenon.

Medium, 37 Signals and ALA look nothing like Bootstrap at all, so I'm not sure why you made that comparison.

I am not a fan of this new redesign at all and feel like Medium and 37 signals do the simple/clean layout approach much better than A List Apart. But as with all three designs, the primary focus is on the content, which I guess is why some people seem to think they lack 'personality'.

>As usual, nothing on cross-browser compatibility (respond.js, modernizr...), nothing on speed optimisation (a real problem in RWD), on backends issues (regarding the multiples images needed), etc...

Well these could all be articles in themselves really. I think this highlights the fact that RWD isn't simply a case of just shrinking your 'full' website down to mobile phone size. It is a rather broad subject and not really one that can summarised quickly in a single article.

If you would like to delve deeper into the subject then I would recommend checking out Brad Frost's articles. This is a great starting point http://bradfrost.github.com/this-is-responsive/resources.htm...

It might be worth noting that there are many revisions of The Elements of Typography Style, the latest released only this month (version 4.0).

Could you elaborate on exactly what you are restricted and locked out from?

Apparently you can do this with Home Sharing (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819). Initially you will need to use the same Apple ID across all devices to download the apps you want to share. Once they have been downloaded and authorized, you can then sign in with a different Apple ID and use the 'shared' apps fine. I have not personally tried this, but there is plenty of evidence that this works from scanning a few Google search results.

The extending the brand comment is exactly right. And it goes back way before iPhones too, Nokia is probably the best example. While people may not be able to hum the melody of the original Nokia ringtone when asked spontaneously, I bet that they could at least recognise it when it is played. It's a catchy jingle that makes you think "oh that's a Nokia phone ringing".

Nice, thanks for the detailed post.

Nice work. I see IMDB still don't have an API. I wrote a little movie comparison web app in the past and had to resort to screen scraping IMDB too. Rotten Tomatoes on the other hand seems to embrace developers a lot more and has an excellent API.

EDIT: Just realised you aren't actually screen scraping IMDB but using OMDB API (http://www.omdbapi.com) instead, I'll have to check that out.

No, as the vast majority of Black Ops 2 copies sold will have been the console version.

There isn't really a magic number when it comes to the typography of a webpage. I'd be wary of using more than 3 unless you really know what you are doing. Two fonts, one for headings and one for body text, is probably most common. Even a single font can look great in the right situation.

Also remember that you can play around with the font style/weight/case to create variations of the same font.

Although selecting typefaces is a big subject as a whole, check out this great resource for some examples of typefaces that compliment each other http://daneden.me/type/

Articles that cherry pick comments from Twitter and then announce it as some sweeping generalization need to stop. The evidence for the headline is based on 4 screenshots of some random tweets.

It happened recently with the MS vs Android malware 'backlash' and also when Instagram was released for Android.

Just because you can cherry pick tweets from the vocal minority to form your attention grabbing headline doesn't mean it applies to the entire user base.

'Patent troll' doesn't mean what you think it means.

I'm fairly sure IETester is not a 100% accurate representation. Although saying that, I have used it before and it certainly is more convenient. I suppose it depends on how important the compatibility of your site is on the older IE versions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5612170/web-testing-for-i...

Link to original report without the bias: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/samsung-hits-apple-with-20-...

Attention-grabbing version: Samsung reacts to recent patent battles by increasing prices to screw Apple.

Likely reality: 20% increase clause was already in the contract (which doesn't run out till 2014) or this 'report' is simply false. Surely Samsung can't just arbitrarily raise the price because they feel like it.

EDIT: I see the moderators have altered the source now, was originally linked to some Android blog.

The black UI looks totally out of place on OS X. I hope you can change it to graphite (you couldn't on the alpha client).

The were so ashamed that they decided to announce it among other new features in iOS 6 at WWDC this year. No-one pays attention to those silly conferences, especially Apple's.

That site is such a massive eyesore, to the point where I struggle to have any motivation to read past the first paragraph.

Colors, typography, the massive line-lengths. It's a wall of text. Just an all-round horrible design.

Shame it's currently broken in Mountain Lion.

Not true, only the Retina Macbook Pro and Airs have soldered-in batteries/RAM, just like ultrabooks made by other manufacturers (ASUS, Dell, Acer).

It's a design decision. If you want an ultra thin/light machine then you have to compromise. If servicing the machine yourself is an issue then buy one of the 'regular' Macbooks.

Hold shift then click the green button. And I'd say Expose/Spaces coupled with the built-in hot-corners feature is great on OS X and window management is far from a 'complete joke'. In fact it's one of the big benefits for me over Windows.

Dispostable is great too. http://www.dispostable.com