Stuff I Learned At SXSW, Part 3
Originally published on 3/13/2012Here are some random notes from the various sessions and discussions I’ve had during my time in Austin:
Whenever you are looking at a device, you are a cyborg. (via Amber Case)
- Ray Kurzweil has a lot of really fascinating things to say. Such as..
Bloodstream technology will be mainstream in 20 years. If you can make it that long, your lifespan will be significantly lengthened.
The new iPad retina display is 2048×1536. So when building websites, it is important to be as resolution independent as possible. Time to start using SVG whenever possible.
When designing responsive sites, be task oriented. Think about what the user is most likely to be doing on the page.
This is the year WebGL is coming to all mobile devices (via What WebGL Will Mean for the Web)
Do media queries for high resolution screens like this:
only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio : 2), only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio : 2)Studies show a rectangle with rounded corners brings your focus inside the box, and with hard corners, your focus is outside (via Paul Trani).
You know you’re doing CSS right when
your content changes you don’t need to touch the stylesheets (via Lea Verou).
Watching the Adobe guys do demos using Dreamweaver, it was interesting to see that it has been improved quite a lot. For example, it has an instance of webkit running inside.
Facebook’s likely biggest competitor is not Google+, but rather a Federated Social Network (i.e. a network of networks)
The Webfinger Protocol is coming back (via Evan Prodromou)