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Break
Everything
@TrentWalton
New Adventures 2012
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A little about myself...
Howdy!
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I work with 2 of my best friends in Texas.
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Dave Rupert
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Reagan Ray
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My wife had to put me on a font allowance.
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I think about food all the time.
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How did they
approach
their work?
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These guys
broke things
like their lives
depended on it.
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I believe we
should do
the same.
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Why break
things?
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So that we
know
limitations
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motorcyclemuseum.org
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motorcyclemuseum.org
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So that we can
develop an
understanding
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http://patft.uspto.gov
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So that we
can make
things better
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motorcyclemuseum.org
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motorcyclemuseum.org
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Blessed are
those who
break.
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Know1
Limitations
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Develop an
Understanding
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Make things
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Better
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Breaking
Limitations
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...or How far can we push web type?
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As web typography
improves, web
designers want the
same level of control
print designers have.
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But what does
that mean?
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I want to use all these...
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Not just these.
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And put all this...
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Into this.
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So how did I
get started?
Pushing CSS(3) as far as I could
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I tried to...
CSS Three
& it worked
hooray!
For shame.
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Break rules
for the sake
of progress.
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Testing the limitations of IE9 Platform Preview
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Injects around letters, words, or lines
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For example...
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Gets you this.
O n w a r d & U p
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Breaking
takes
gumption.
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This isn’t ideal.
O n w a r d & U p
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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
h1::nth-word(3);
targeting the 3rd word within an tag
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What would
the web look
like if no one
ventured out
of bounds?
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What limitations will you break?
The web is ripe
for expansion.
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Typecast App
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Wood Type Revival
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Animatable
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Gimme Bar
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The Manual
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Break things to
develop an
understanding.
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Not always
fun, but
necessary
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Responsive Web Design
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Responsive
Web Design
isn’t bolt-on.
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I’ve always seen the web in pixels
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Complete Control at 3200%
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ARCHY
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What is this dark magic?!
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The only way to
understand RWD
was to get my
hands dirty.
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We’d like a responsive video site
for the new dolectures.co.uk.
Jon Heslop
January 2011
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To think about the
web responsively is to
think in proportions,
not pixels.
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Hierarchy can be maintained.
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A New Kind
of Control
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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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Break things
to make
them better.
...or Responsivizing My Broke-Ass Blog
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I wanted to make my blog responsive.
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Every.
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Single.
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Post.
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But I couldn’t
see from
point A to B.
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• Flexible Grids
• Fluid Images
• Media Queries
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Can fine
control of web
type coexist
with RWD?
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Dave Rupert solves all my
problems with javascript!
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Teamwork makes dreams work!
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The web community is our greatest asset.
Camaraderie
is everything.
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“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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Thanks!
trentwalton.com
@TrentWalton