It is the the end of March, 2020. Spring is in the air, but much of the world is in self-isolation or lockdown from the global pandemic of coronavirus. My family and I are in Zagreb, Croatia and we are safe. However, our plan of spending the next month exploring the country of Croatia has … Continue reading Traveling the World Virtually
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Online tracking is something we are all aware is happening. And, like it or not - if a product is free - you are not the customer - you are the product being sold. Facebook has gotten in to a load of trouble with how it handles private information... yet it probably has more information … Continue reading Facebook Security: Time for a checkup
I see 2 common approaches to dealing with video on mobile browsers: Hide the video with CSS "display:none". (This results in a partial video download that the user can literally NEVER see). Serve the same video to both mobile and desktop. This video is typically 720p or 1080p, and designed to look great on large … Continue reading Video Playback on Mobile Devices
Update: March 28, 2020 This weekend, my son asked to play with the LEGO crane. WE pulled it out of the box, and reconnected all the pieces. Then I went to Google Play to download the app - 159 MB! The asset bundle dropped from 245 MB to 120MB Still big, but half the size it … Continue reading Size Does Matter: LEGO’s 300MB Android App
Background videos, and videos that autoplay on websites are becoming more and more popular (and perhaps will soon be the new normal). It is also common to only display the video on larger screens, and to hide the video on small screens. An Anti-pattern emerges However, in my experience of looking at hundreds of websites … Continue reading Hiding Videos on the Mobile Web
