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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  • Link // 01.16.2012 // 11:45 AM // 0 Comments

    Aaron Mentele Mobile Safari & Media Queries asset download tests

    Aaron did some terrific tests with regard to how Mobile Safari downloads assets (images, backgrounds, etc.) on elements which are hidden via media queries. Also, don’t miss his follow up piece.

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  • Link // 11.09.2009 // 10 AM // 0 Comments

    CSS Transform Creator

    This’ll be handy until I’ve used the CSS transform syntax enough to remember what all the options do.

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  • Link // 10.12.2009 // 8:27 AM // 0 Comments

    QuirksBlog: There is no WebKit on Mobile

    PPK details the myth that is the idea that “WebKit on mobile is taking over.” His point, which is totally valid, is that while WebKit is indeed becoming the dominant rendering engine on mobile platforms, each of those platforms has distinctly different versions of WebKit, so the idea that if you build for WebKit, all of these devices will render your site the exact same way is a misconception. His point is well taken, if a bit dramatic. It’s true that there are subtle differences between each version, and it’s also true that most people don’t realize this. But, in the real-world, they’re “close enough” that targeting WebKit will generally get you a very similar experience on all these platforms.

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  • Link // 06.18.2009 // 3:34 PM // 1 Comment

    How to Use Geolocation in Mobile Safari

    This is nice. Mobile Safari now has a very simple and elegant Javascript API to the iPhone’s location functions. This means a web app can request a visitor’s location, and if the user agrees, coordinates are made available (just like with native iPhone apps). Very sweet. Can’t wait for a reason to use this.

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  • Link // 09.30.2008 // 5:59 PM // 0 Comments

    WebKit Web Inspector Redesign

    Some really, really nice additions and changes to both the functionality and design of my favorite browser debugging tool.

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  • Link // 04.29.2008 // 2:35 PM // 0 Comments

    Apple’s WebKit now supports CSS Reflections

    Talk about scratching your own itch…

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  • Link // 04.24.2008 // 2:28 PM // 0 Comments

    WebKit now support CSS Masks

    Oh man, this looks sweet. I’ll say it again: the WebKit team is totally doing the right thing here by continuing to innovate with these new features. Dear WebKit: web designers everywhere thank you!

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  • Link // 04.14.2008 // 2:02 PM // 1 Comment

    Surfin’ Safari: Introducing CSS Gradients

    WebKit now includes support for gradients specified in CSS. The syntax looks a bit confusing for us designerly types, but massive kudos to the WebKit team for continuing to embrace the “browser wars” mentality, offering exciting new toys for designers and developers to play with, while at the same time maintaing interoperability with other browsers. Now, if we could just get Opera, Mozilla, and Microsoft on board, we’d probably see some fast and furious innovation in the CSS arena.

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  • Link // 12.22.2007 // 1:01 AM // 1 Comment

    WebKit gets Native getElementsByClassName

    Here’s to innovation among browser makers! Nice work, WebKit. Mozilla and Opera, where you at?

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  • Link // 10.04.2007 // 8:40 AM // 0 Comments

    WebKit (a.k.a. Safari) now supports @font-face

    I continue to loves me some WebKit. These guys are the designer’s best friend — they are really focusing on implementing the parts of CSS that really matter to designers, which is awesome (unless, of course, you’re a JavaScript programmer). :)

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  • Link // 01.10.2007 // 10:33 PM // 0 Comments

    David Hyatt: The Obligatory iPhone Post

    Dave Hyatt, the main man behind Safari, notes (as others have) that the iPhone could signal the end of the “mobile web” as a separate concept from the “regular old web.”

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  • Link // 08.21.2006 // 4:34 PM // 0 Comments

    Web Inspector Gains New Eyes for Metrics, Properties

    WebKit’s inspector now supports a sweet box model visual representation and some other goodies. It looks like us web developers who prefer Safari may not have to keep Firefox and Firebug around for debugging all that much longer…

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  • Link // 08.08.2006 // 6:36 PM // 0 Comments

    GetWebKit: WebKit-based browser for Windows

    I’m surprised it too this long, but there’s finally a WebKit-based browser project for Windows. Awesome.

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  • Link // 07.20.2006 // 5:51 AM // 0 Comments

    Shiira 2.0 - A Visual Preview

    I don’t expect Shiira to ever become a major player in the browser space, but damn I sure won’t complain if Apple incorporates a few of these UI enhancements into Safari. Very sexy-looking indeed.

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  • Link // 01.17.2006 // 10:29 AM // 0 Comments

    Web Inspector, new in Safari nightlies

    Safari’s answer to Firefox’s DOM Inspector looks to be another great tool for web developers. This may just be what I need to make Safari my full-time development browser.

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  • Link // 06.07.2005 // 7:27 AM // 0 Comments

    Say Hello to WebKit!

    Dave Hyatt announces that Apple’s WebKit (the rendering engine supporting Safari) is now fully open-sourced. This could be the most exciting announcement of WWDC! Who’s going to be the first enterprising Windows developer to release a WebKit-based browser

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