Disclosure (updated on 10/15): For those that have come here for the first time or don’t like to read About pages, I work at Google and am a web developer advocate, currently focussed on AMP. If you’d rather watch than read, the top 5 are now available as video: #1: “AMP is a new render […]
In his Ode to the Desktop, Dion writes: I consumed more and created less I’ve written down similar thoughts many years ago, and I’m glad we’re having this discussion again. The above summarizes the biggest flaw of the new and shiny. Tablets and phones are inferior when it comes to most creative tasks: Worse input […]
If you’re using a static site generator like Jekyll or Grow (recommended), you know that commands like jekyll serve or grow run will spin up local web servers that allow you to live develop and preview your static site. Unfortunately, these generators don’t create a secure context behind an HTTPS domain, something I need often […]
There’s nothing inherently ‘mobile’ about AMP. AMP is designed to be mobile friendly, and with slow hardware and high latency connections, the boost you get with AMP on smartphones is going to be felt a lot stronger than on desktops. But AMP isn’t mobile only – it’s mobile first. In fact, if you can, I […]
TL;DR: I did a thing with Flexbox. Here’s the standalone demo if you’re into DevTools and view:source, and the CodePen. A couple days ago I was asked to create a the a page for AMPProject.org that would display our roadmap. Which I did. It looks like this: In order to make this design fully responsive, […]
A few weeks ago, I imagined how a Life After AMP could look like, and discussed how AMP isn’t a broad solution for all types of websites yet, plus offered my thoughts on Tim Kadlec’s and Yoav Weiss’ proposal for a Content Performance Policy. Most of all, I pondered whether we might need a standard […]
Now that AMP has publicly launched on Google Search and many other platforms (i.e WordPress), it’s time to start thinking how we can bring the things that work in AMP to the broader web. AMP isn’t for everyone (yet) Going one step back, I want to reiterate that the current AMP is currently not a […]
In the last couple of years, we, the web community, have tried hard to distill the basics of responsive design into an easily consumable framework, making it easy for everyone to use and adapt. I say we’ve been successful here. Many large consumer websites have refactored and adopted responsive design in 2015 and beyond. But […]