jQuery Mobile is a touch-optimized HTML5 UI framework designed to make responsive web sites and apps that are accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.
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So why is Texas (and with new schools opening, also Arkansas and Indiana) spending a whopping $82 million of taxpayers’ money every year to teach it?
This revelation comes from Zack Kopplin, who wrote a devastating article here inSlateabout his investigation of Responsive Education Solutions, a group of publicly supported charter schools that currently has more than 65 campuses with 17,000 students enrolled. Kopplin obtained a copy of Responsive Ed’s workbook for biology that is used throughout their charter system, and what’s inside is disturbing, to say the very least.
The workbook, called a “Knowledge Unit”, is loaded with creationist propaganda, both subtle and overt. A large fraction of the curriculum in it is devoted to creating doubt about evolution (and other scientific fields) and to promoting a completely false controversy about the scientific facts of biological evolution.
Early last year, I worked on the redesign of a rather content-heavy website. Design requirements were fairly light: the client asked us to keep the organization’s existing logo and to improve the dense typography and increase legibility. So, early on in the design process, we spent a sizable amount of time planning a well-defined grid for a library of content modules.
"Figure 6. Maximizing Impact at Higher Resolutions
Techniques for Responsive Layout
Great, so how do we implement this kind of experience? Generally, the adaptive layout for Web sites boils down to two techniques:
Identify break points where your layout needs to change.
In between break points, scale content proportionally.
Let’s examine these techniques independently.
Scaling Content Proportionally Between Break Points
As pointed out in the evaluation of microsoft.com, the relative layout of the header, hero image, navigation area and content area on the home page do not change for a screen width of 900 px or higher. This is valuable because when users visit the site on a 1280 x 720 monitor, they are not seeing a 900-px wide Web site with more than 25 percent of the screen going to whitespace in the right and left margins.
Similarly, two users might visit the site, one with an iPhone 4 with 480 x 320 px resolution (in CSS pixels) and another using a Samsung Galaxy S3 with 640 x 360 px resolution. For any layout with a width less than 512 px, microsoft.com scales down the layout proportionally so that for both users the entire mobile browser is devoted to Web content and not whitespace, regardless of whether they are viewing the site in portrait or landscape mode.
There are a couple of ways to implement this, including the CSS3 proposal of fluid grids. However, this is not supported across major browsers yet. You can see this working on Internet Explorer 10 (with vendor prefixes), and MSDN has examples of the CSS3 grid implementation here and here.
In the meantime, we’re going to use the tried-and-tested methods of percentage-based widths to achieve a fluid grid layout. Consider the simplistic example illustrated in Figure 7, which has the following design requirements:
A #header that spans across the width of the screen.
A #mainContent div that spans 60 percent of the width of the screen.
A #sideContent div that spans 40 percent of the screen width.
20-px fixed spacing between #mainContent and #sideContent.
A #mainImage img element that occupies all the available width inside #mainContent, excluding a fixed 10-px gutter around it.
Figure 7. Set Up for a Fluid Grid
The markup for this page would look like the following: ...."
This is a list of selected devices’ displayed pixel density in pixels per cm (ppcm) and pixels per inch (PPI). A display device has a limited number of pixels it can display, and a limited space over which to display them. On a small portable computer or cell phone, a higher pixel density is desirable, as these devices are designed to be viewed up close.
The highest pixel density screen, currently as of April 2012, is MicroOLED's 5.4 MP .61" micro display, with a calculated ppi of over 5400.[1]
I fully expect much debate and discussion to take part as a result of this, so be it in the comments below, a tweet my way, an email in my inbox, or a followup to this list on your own blog, I'm anxiously awaiting to get the conversations rolling. If you go with the latter of the above options, I'd love to have you shoot the link my way so I can take a look at it!"
USAToday.com: Redesigning One of America’s Most Popular News Sites Quoted from blog.f-i.com: "Many weeks spent in discovery yielded a series of insights that equated to a world-class primer on how people read the news. Informed by natural behaviors – Mom starts with the Life section, Dad with Sports, for example – one key insight was that it’s very rare for any reader to consume the entire newspaper from front to back. Any UX or Visual designer could pick up our comprehensive analysis and within hours be an expert ready to deliver on the designated vision established. Very quickly the framework took shape, and a brilliant disruption of the section-by-section analog convention was the basis of our philosophy.
Most people don’t end up at a news site on the home page. Instead, they’ve likely landed via organic search, social media, or an email forward. This led our architecture to serve those habits and patterns. Our solution involved a radical simplification of a typically very deep framework, essentially providing a two-level structure, with individual articles being the primary focus. Assigning each a unique URL, and layering them directly over the main section page behind it, allowed users to easily share or link to a particular article, and continue reading from article to article without ever having to hit the home page.
Essentially creating one long page for each section, the hovering articles became the heroes, and this philosophy became the basis for the entire experience. An added benefit to this simplified approach is that the resulting flat architecture made for massive efficiencies in the development of UX and Design templates. This modular approach offered economies of time, effort, and total costs as well. Instead of unique layouts for each and every section, we found the critical path toward most sensible delivery of a vastly diverse set of information. This provided a streamlined and flexible format that catered to user needs, as well as the swift evolution of ever-changing news cycles. "
Breaking new ground is nothing new for Edge Reflow, and we're continuing to incorporate new technologies as quickly as possible. Be warned though -- the rest of the web might need some time to catch up, so not all of these features are compatible with all browsers. Get the details from Web Platform team.
Regions
Right-click to convert any box into a region. All of the content in this box, including text and images, will then become "flowable."
Region containers
Add images and text that flow from one region container to the next across your design canvas.
Edit content
Double-click a region to access the entire flow. Add or edit your content, or simply double-click to return to the design canvas.
Demo time!
Check out these projects that use CSS Regions for flowing content:
So you have a 3D printer and need to print something of your own design. That’s a problem if you don’t know how to create and edit 3D objects. In this post, we’re continuing our previous misadventures with Blender by making a ‘thing’ torn from a very old book on drafting.
Previously, we’ve made the same part in other 3D design packages. Here’s some links to those other ‘Making a Thing’ posts:
We’ve already done half the work to make a ‘thing’ in Blender, so now it’s time to finish the job. Check out the rest of the tutorial below.
Our Thing
To the right is the ‘thing’ we’re making for all these 3D Printering tutorials. It’s taken out of the 4th edition of Engineering Drawing (French, 1929, p. 105). Yep, it’s an 85-year-old drawing with fractional inches. It serves our purpose, though: a template with which to make something with a 3D CAD package.
By the way, if anyone out there has a 1st edition of Engineering Drawing, I’d love to see if this object actually goes all the way back to the 1911 volume.
The Curse of Blender & What We’ve Done So Far
In the first part of this tutorial, I said using Blender to create a simple mechanical object like our ‘thing’ is akin to using a bulldozer to build a sandcastle. I’m still standing by that assessment. If you want to make precise mechanical parts, don’t use Blender. Blender is a tool for organic and sculptural forms. Want to print out a plastic tree? Blender is a great tool. Want to model some Greek and Roman statuaries? Blender is a great tool. Need a part for a mechanical device? Don’t use Blender. It’s not the right tool for the job.
In the first part of this tutorial, we took a look at the idea behind Blender – mesh editing – and how to interact with vertices, edges, and faces to make a thing. With all the introductory stuff out of the way, it’s time to finish the job.
More Building Of A Thing
To the right is where we left off with the last part of this tutorial. It’s basically just a washer, but the dimensions are correct for the thing we’re making. There are a few things we need to do before this ‘thing’ is done though:
Add the 3/8″ slot on this washer
Add the 2 3/4″ wide flange thingy
Add the 1 1/2″ wide flange
Build the mounting bracket with the countersunk hole
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Issue №279
Most people don’t end up at a news site on the home page. Instead, they’ve likely landed via organic search, social media, or an email forward. This led our architecture to serve those habits and patterns. Our solution involved a radical simplification of a typically very deep framework, essentially providing a two-level structure, with individual articles being the primary focus. Assigning each a unique URL, and layering them directly over the main section page behind it, allowed users to easily share or link to a particular article, and continue reading from article to article without ever having to hit the home page.
Most people don’t end up at a news site on the home page. Instead, they’ve likely landed via organic search, social media, or an email forward. This led our architecture to serve those habits and patterns. Our solution involved a radical simplification of a typically very deep framework, essentially providing a two-level structure, with individual articles being the primary focus. Assigning each a unique URL, and layering them directly over the main section page behind it, allowed users to easily share or link to a particular article, and continue reading from article to article without ever having to hit the home page.
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