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What it means to be “responsive”
Over the past couple of years, I’ve been tagged with a reputation of being somehow an opponent to the technique Ethan Marcotte coined “Responsive Web Design” in his seminal A List Apart article of the same name. Ethan defines Responsive Web Design as a technique that incorporates fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries to deliver experiences that accommodate today’s multi-device world, and he has vigorously defended his brand name against any suggestions that there are other ways (besides fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries) to achieve the same effective result.
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Dinner at Spoon
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Ethan Marcotte is Unstoppable Robot Ninja
Don’t call it a comeback. He’s been here for years.
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On Writing Better
The future home of the website that accompanies Greg, Ethan, Bronwyn, and Erin’s great SXSW panel on writing.
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Dan, Greg, Ethan, Michael, and Ryan
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Dan, Greg, Ethan, Michael, and Ryan
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Ethan Marcotte and Kevin Cornell
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Ethan Marcotte and Kevin Cornell
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Greg Storey and panel
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Greg Storey and panel
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Ethan on ALA: Where Our Standards Went Wrong
A great article by Ethan Marcotte on how we need to redefine the message we use in web standards evangelism. He touches on two things that baffle my mind. First, I don’t understand why anyone would ever validate someone else’s code and then speak publicly about the errors they find. If you do that, you’re being an asshole. Period. Validation is a process for you to do on your code, so as to help you avoid the timesink that is working with broken code later — using invalid code will especially kill you when you go to add DOM scripting or CSS to the page. Don’t validate other people’s code. It’s assholish. Second, he mentions how some CMSes are still spewing tag-soup all over our web. I find this, frankly, absurd. If your CMS that doesn’t allow you 100%, full control over its output via a template system of some sort, you’ve got to find a way off of that thing. Any CMS that doesn’t give you full control of the output is not worth anyone’s time.
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Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with CSS, DOM Scripting, and XHTML
by Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Mark Boulton, Jeff Croft, Dan Rubin, Aaron Gustafson, Ethan Marcotte, Rob Weychert, Cameron Adams, Ian Lloyd, Andy Clarke, and Derek Featherstone. How’s that for a star-studded lineup? Coming in March, from friends of ED.
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Ethan Marcotte
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The Internet's Ethan Marcotte
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The Marriage of Presentation and Structure
Great presentation by Ethan and Molly, created with Eric’s S5.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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