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Trent Walton: Break Everything

New Adventures
January 26, 2012

Trent Walton: Break Everything

New Adventures, 19th January 2012

New Adventures

January 26, 2012
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  1. Break
    Everything
    @TrentWalton
    New Adventures 2012

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  2. A little about myself...
    Howdy!

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  4. I work with 2 of my best friends in Texas.

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  5. Dave Rupert

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  6. Reagan Ray

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  7. My wife had to put me on a font allowance.

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  8. I think about food all the time.

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  17. How did they
    approach
    their work?

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  25. These guys
    broke things
    like their lives
    depended on it.

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  27. I believe we
    should do
    the same.

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  28. Why break
    things?

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  29. So that we
    know
    limitations
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  31. motorcyclemuseum.org

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  32. motorcyclemuseum.org

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  33. So that we can
    develop an
    understanding
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  34. http://patft.uspto.gov

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  37. So that we
    can make
    things better
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  39. motorcyclemuseum.org

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  40. motorcyclemuseum.org

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  41. Blessed are
    those who
    break.

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  42. Know1
    Limitations

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  43. Develop an
    Understanding
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  44. Make things
    3
    Better

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  45. Breaking
    Limitations
    1
    ...or How far can we push web type?

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  46. As web typography
    improves, web
    designers want the
    same level of control
    print designers have.

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  47. But what does
    that mean?

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  48. I want to use all these...

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  49. Not just these.

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  50. And put all this...

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  51. Into this.

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  52. So how did I
    get started?
    Pushing CSS(3) as far as I could

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  59. I tried to...
    CSS Three

    & it worked

    hooray!
    For shame.

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  60. Break rules
    for the sake
    of progress.

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  63. Testing the limitations of IE9 Platform Preview

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  67. Injects around letters, words, or lines

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  68. For example...

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  69. Gets you this.

    O
    n
    w
    a
    r
    d

    &

    U
    p

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  78. Breaking
    takes
    gumption.

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  80. This isn’t ideal.

    O
    n
    w
    a
    r
    d

    &

    U
    p

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  81. But imagine this
    h1::nth-letter(4); or h1::nth-char(4);
    targeting the 4th letter within an tag
    h1::nth-word(3);
    targeting the 3rd word within an tag

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  83. What would
    the web look
    like if no one
    ventured out
    of bounds?

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  93. What limitations will you break?
    The web is ripe
    for expansion.

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  94. Typecast App

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  95. Wood Type Revival

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  96. Animatable

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  97. Gimme Bar

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  98. The Manual

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  99. Break things to
    develop an
    understanding.
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  105. Not always
    fun, but
    necessary

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  108. Responsive Web Design

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  109. Responsive
    Web Design
    isn’t bolt-on.

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  110. I’ve always seen the web in pixels

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  111. Complete Control at 3200%

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  112. ARCHY
    IER
    H

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  113. What is this dark magic?!

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  114. The only way to
    understand RWD
    was to get my
    hands dirty.

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  115. We’d like a responsive video site
    for the new dolectures.co.uk.
    Jon Heslop
    January 2011

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  117. To think about the
    web responsively is to
    think in proportions,
    not pixels.

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  120. Hierarchy can be maintained.

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  121. A New Kind
    of Control

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  122. Use flexible grids, fluid
    images, and media queries to
    build not a page, but a network
    of content that can be
    rearranged at any screen size
    to best convey a message.

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  123. Break things
    to make
    them better.
    ...or Responsivizing My Broke-Ass Blog
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  124. I wanted to make my blog responsive.

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  125. Every.

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  126. Single.

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  127. Post.

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  128. But I couldn’t
    see from
    point A to B.

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  129. • Flexible Grids
    • Fluid Images
    • Media Queries

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  131. Can fine
    control of web
    type coexist
    with RWD?

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  132. Dave Rupert solves all my
    problems with javascript!

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  136. Teamwork makes dreams work!

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  137. The web community is our greatest asset.
    Camaraderie
    is everything.

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  138. “It’s fun to talk about design and to
    work on my career, but that’s not
    going to last… the relationships in my
    life are where I really want to make
    the biggest impact.”
    Phil Coffman
    November 2011—The Great
    Discontent

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  152. Thanks!
    trentwalton.com
    @TrentWalton

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