Following on from my last post; i’ve been doing some spleunking into ‘responsive design’ – the latest buzz term circling the web design / development camp. I’ve stumbled across a rather insightful slideshare presentation from Brian and Stephanie Rieger; they worked on browser.nokia.com at Breaking Development conference. For that project, they invented a new way to combine client side information with device detection. It’s a really interesting approach and certainly worth assimilating!

First off; I know it’s been a looong time since I last posted an update; suffice to say i’ve had a lot of things on in my life that have kept me preoccupied… but enough of my whining; i’m here to talk about a promising new framework I stumbled across called Foundation; its from the guys at Zurb who made the lovely CSS3 buttons that I utilise a lot (with my own modifications of course! will be blogging the changes shortly).

As my girlfriend is the proud owner of a Samsung N210 netbook; i found myself itching to test out Jolicloud; an OS designed entirely for Netbooks. Jolicloud 1.0 is the most recent ‘cloud-based’ operating system; it is built on an Ubuntu 9.04 build and is stripped down for lightness and speed. The essence of Jolicloud is ‘keep things online’; a harkback to the days when cloud-based computing was still in it’s infancy.

One of the most popular websites in the world; BBC News; is set for a refresh in the next week or so. BBC editor Steve Hermann gives the skinny on what we can expect:

What’s new:

• a fresh, updated design, with more space for the main stories of the day
• better use of video and images
• clearer and more prominent labelling and signposting of key stories, whether you are on the front page or a story page
• a better indication of which are the most recent headlines
• easier ways to share stories with others, for those who wish to

Some things are staying the way they are:

• all the same content is still there: the best of the BBC’s journalism in text, audio and video
• the latest news headlines will be as quick and comprehensive as ever
• accuracy remains at the core of our editorial values
• we’ve been careful to keep things simple and easy to use; you have told us how important this is

Mozilla have just announced the release of v4 beta of their flagship browser Firefox; you can grab your flavour from the following link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/

As of current testing none of my plugins (web developer, YSlow etc) are compatible, but i’m sure that will change!

Let me know your thoughts!