» Ughck. Images.In a follow-up piece to his ALA article Mo’ Pixels, Mo’ Problems, Dave Rupert talks about all the progress we've made toward responsive image solutions — by which he means no progress has been made.

» Google Changes Rankings of Smartphone Search ResultsGoogle has started decreasing the ranking of sites with misconfigured mobile content redirects and errors. Highly recommended for any developer who cares about site rankings in Google (i.e. all of them).

» Why Do We Need Responsive Images? 72% Less Image Weight.We all need to step up our responsive development game and start thinking more about page weight. The most obvious place to start? Images.℅ @respimg

Desktop fonts in Adobe Typekit Four years ago, we set out to on a goal to bring great typography to the web. Now, we’re taking the next step in our evolution: desktop fonts and web fonts together in a single Typekit subscription. On June 17, we’ll be making 175 beautiful font families from the Typekit library available for desktop use. You’ll be able to sync them to your computer and use them in all your applications for web mockups, print design, word processing, and more. Wan

People often point at the failings of the mobile internet as rationale for why it won’t overtake the desktop web. “No one will ever want to do that on mobile” gets used to justify short-sighted decisions. Truth is, we can’t predict all the ways that people will want to use mobile in the future. Jason Grigsby, co-author of Head First Mobile Web (with Lyza Danger Gardner) says “We can’t predict future behavior from a current experience that sucks.”

Let’s say you’ve chosen three basic design directions from your thumbnails. Think about what your major breakpoints will look like (Figure 7.6). And here’s the key: try to come up with as few major breakpoints as possible. That might sound crazy, since we’re talking about responsive design. After all, we have media queries, so let’s use about 12 of them, right? No! If a linear layout works for every screen and is appropriate for your particular concept, then there&r

Desktop fonts in Adobe Typekit Four years ago, we set out to on a goal to bring great typography to the web. Now, we’re taking the next step in our evolution: desktop fonts and web fonts together in a single Typekit subscription. On June 17, we’ll be making 175 beautiful font families from the Typekit library available for desktop use. You’ll be able to sync them to your computer and use them in all your applications for web mockups, print design, word processing, and more. Wan

» Maps Should Be Crafted, Not “Plugged In”Web designers: erase the line between “the map” and “the content“ by harnessing the power of open-source Leaflet and your own fresh creative thinking. In the tradition of ALA’s recent “Hack Your Maps,” Happy Cog’s Brandon Rosage shares how to make location a central aspect of the content experience—not just a visual aid.

» Amazon Web Services Introduces a New APIAmazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (IAM) is expanding to support web identity federation. Developers can integrate Amazon.com, Facebook, or Google identity into their app by using the new AWS Security Token Service (STS) API, AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity, to request temporary security credentials.

Three years ago in these pages, ALA technical editor Ethan Marcotte fired the shot heard ’round the web. ALA designer Mike Pick thought it might be fun to celebrate the third anniversary of “Responsive Web Design” (A List Apart Issue No. 306, May 25, 2010) by secreting an Easter Egg in the original article; our illustrator, Kevin Cornell, rose to the challenge.

» Do Users Care About Your Latest News? (Spoiler: No.)Paul Boag takes a look at some analytics to see what it can tell us about the effectiveness of putting your "latest news" on your home page.℅ @DiaryCS

The world is struggling to come to terms with the implications of such rapid change. So far, specific industries — music, news, film — have had to pick up most of the debris, but now technology is destabilizing some of society’s central pillars: law, finance, education, defense, and politics. We’ve recently seen the rise of a rogue currency outside the global financial system. Crowdsourced vigilantism. The further erosion of the concept of owne

The module pattern is a simple structural foundation that can help keep your code clean and organized. A “module” is just a standard object literal containing methods and properties, and that simplicity is the best thing about this pattern: even someone unfamiliar with traditional software design patterns would be able to look at the code and instantly understand how it works.

It’s much simpler and less entangled, because we’re using the document as a global message bus, and passing messages through it so individual components don’t need to know about each other. (Note that in a real app, we’d use something like Backbone or the RSVP library to manage events. We’re just triggering on document to keep things simple here.) We’re also hiding all the dirty work—such as finding the name of the person who was liked—inside the S

» Matt Mullenweg on Yahoo-Tumblr“We’re at the cusp of understanding the ultimate value of web publishing platforms, particularly ones that work cross-domain.”–Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.