filamentgroup/Southstreet
This is excellent! Scott, Wilto, and the gang at Filament Group have released the tools they use to help them craft performant responsive sites. Lots of excellent resources for conditional loading here.
Responsive web design from the future — Warpspire
I really like the thinking that’s gone into the design of Github, as shown in this presentation. It’s not really about responsive design as we commonly know it, but boy, is it a great deep dive into the importance of URLs and performance.
Related links
filamentgroup/Responsive-Images - GitHub
Some very smart ideas here for responsively enhancing image requests.
danwebb.net - It’s About The Hashbangs
A superb post by Dan on the bigger picture of what’s wrong with hashbang URLs. Well written and well reasoned.
Dear Developer, The Web Isn’t About You | sonniesedge.co.uk
This is absolutely brilliant!
Forgive my excitement, but this transcript of Charlie’s talk is so, so good—an equal mix of history and practical advice. Once you’ve read it, share it. I want everyone to have the pleasure of reading this inspiring piece!
It is this flirty declarative nature makes HTML so incredibly robust. Just look at this video. It shows me pulling chunks out of the Amazon homepage as I browse it, while the page continues to run.
Let’s just stop and think about that, because we take it for granted. I’m pulling chunks of code out of a running computer application, AND IT IS STILL WORKING.
Just how… INCREDIBLE is that? Can you imagine pulling random chunks of code out of the memory of your iPhone or Windows laptop, and still expecting it to work? Of course not! But with HTML, it’s a given.
Anatomy of a responsive page load
The slides from Andy’s excellent pragmatic talk on performance and aggressive enhancement at the Responsive Day Out.