Tag archive: mobile
Graceful degradation vs. Progressive enhancement (part 1)
The graceful degradation philosophy, making full-featured designs work acceptable on older computers and mobile devices, is more and more getting replaced by a new philosophy called progressive enhancement. In a series of posts, I’ll write about differencies between the two, and explain why I will focus on progressive enhancement in the future…
andreasviklund.com on the iPad
Two weeks ago, I installed the WPtouch Pro plugin to make andreasviklund.com easier to read on mobile devices. Yesterday I updated the plugin to a new version that includes a customized theme for the Apple iPad. If you visit this site with Mobile Safari on an iPad, you will now see a simplified version of…
The annual cleaning project
Since I got my first own computer back in the spring of 1997, I have made it a tradition to do some cleaning work of the computer during the last couple of days every year. Most often, that has meant to make two backup copies of all the files, then format all disks and re-install…
Variant Multi, two alternate versions
The Variant Multi template got very positive feedback, but I got one e-mail about the fact that the narrow 600px layout wasn’t working very well on iOS devices – it appeared very narrow since the Safari Mobile viewport was not adjusted in the HTML. In order to provide a better option, I customized the template…
New template: Variant Multi
A new template has been released, this time a multi-layout design which has been named Variant Multi. It offers a whole lot of different layout options, from simple one- or two-column layouts to magazine-style multi-column layouts. Go take a look on the template page, or download Variant Multi directly here: Download: Variant Multi