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Offline Web Apps: To Cache or to Store?

what if tomorrow every site would start using HTML5's application cache? this is an interesting question between there is a quite important difference between caching and storing, and while HTML5 technically treats offline applications as caching rather than storing, it... Read more →

iPhone to Android: Make the Leap?

shamelessly copying the make the leap slogan from SRAM (which faced the prospect of entering a market where shimano seemed to be impossible to attack), this is my brief report of 30 days and 30 nights (another shamelessly copied tagline)... Read more →

iPad Application Design Duality

with the iPad as the new contender in the space between smartphones and laptops, it will be interesting to see how application designers perceive the iPad as a platform. for netbooks, it was clear that applications were very likely the... Read more →

What's the Web, Anyway?

there is a great story about how the british Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has decided that apple is not allowed to say that the iPhone gives users access to all parts of the Internet. the reason is that the iPhone... Read more →

Go Up

Go Up has been one of my favorite firefox add-ons for a long time: for any site with a well-defined URI structure, it is easier to just go up a level rather than searching for the navigation links on the... Read more →

Internationalized Quotes

one of the things HTML is good at is that it supports at least some semantics, for example for using quoted text by using the element, if you are using a decent browser (specifically, not IE). you can even... Read more →

Helvetica

i just watched Helvetica, a documentary about — surprise — the typeface Helvetica. it's very well done and really entertaining, my favorite screen shot is shown here, a really wonderful skateboard design! (the film is really not like that, i... Read more →