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Jason Grigsby: CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool’s Gold

With the prevalence of wi-fi in daily life and the ever-increasing speeds of mobile networks, it would be easily to write off file size and download speed when creating mobile experiences. However, with such news as the elimination of unlimited data plans and this net neutrality thing, I think it’s safe to say network speed, latency, and cost will remain relevant to mobile discussions for the foreseeable future.

Lets not forget rural areas and developing nations. It will be a long time before we can simply ignore file sizes and assume fast download speeds for all users.

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And I think people who use software — which includes you and me and everybody reading this — are learning to value power over flexibility. In part because of iOS apps, and in part because our attentions are further disintegrated and we have less time for each app.

inessential.com: Flexibility and power

Too true. Give me an app that does one thing well over an app that does 10 things poorly.

I think there’s money to be made in building apps for the desktop that behave more like our favourite iOS apps.

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ignore the code: Senseg E-Sense

I agree with Lukas, haptic feedback using vibration is crude. It’s like smacking yourself in the hand with a sledge hammer instead of pricking yourself with a needle.

Electric pulses straight to your fingertip seems like it would offer a much more realistic and localised form of feedback.

I’d love to try one out.