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May 11, 2012
OS X Lion has a nasty habit of hanging on to inactive memory, thus causing unnecessary disk paging. As you’ve probably observed—unless you’re fortunate enough to be running on an SSD—any sustained disk activity brings Lion to a grinding halt. So, what can you do to alleviate this problem?
Read postApr 30, 2012
In which we share how we combine various well-known techniques to maximize web form usability on Mobile Safari.
Read postApr 25, 2012
To improve readability on websites designed for desktop browsers, Mobile Safari on iPhone will automatically increase the size of small text. For designers sweating every last detail, this adjustment is not always desirable. The right way to work around it is to set ‑webkit‑text‑size‑adjust: 100%. Avoid none at all costs. Here’s why.
Apr 23, 2012
Just when we thought we understood media queries and the relative nature of CSS pixel measurements, along comes a subtle bug in WebKit that throws everything off. In this post we look at the nature of the WebKit desktop zoom problem and find an elegant solution using the latest version of Sass.
Read postApr 19, 2012
Today we’re releasing an update to fiftyfive‑wicket, our bootstrap and set of useful utilities and components for the Apache Wicket Java web framework. There are some significant behind-the-scenes changes in fiftyfive‑wicket 4.0.
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