Yay!

Baahhh. I liked it up until

That's weird, because I have ElementaryOS running on my server at home, and from my workplace Mac or my home-use Ubuntu ThinkPad, I can:

ssh -X -C [host] -l [user]

and I'm good to go. Start firing up xterm, pgadmin, chrome, or anything else on the server just fine, even from work. Sure, chrome gets sluggish over that distance, but it's not really something I'd use often. Other programs though run perfectly fine and are useable considering it's a home-based cable hookup running whoknowswhere out to my office.

They said that the keys weren't on the "compromised" systems

* sorry, complete rewrite of front-end. Usually the back-end can stay in place for the most part.

The client I do work for has thankfully been very forgiving of what can and can't be done on a mobile device, despite their strict brand guidelines and anal eye (eww) for detail. They've also been somewhat willing to increase budget for fully responsive sites, even if it means 3 more months and a complete overhaul of the codebase. We've done several projects for them with a complete rewrite in mind.

Mmmhmmmm...we had a contractor that did a lot of sorting and rendering of content with Javascript. I went in to fix a mostly unrelated bug, and ended up rewriting it with PHP in a few minutes and removing any need for post-render rendering.

That ticks me off, almost as much as "There's an app for [Some Web Site] for your device! Go to the App Store now?!? Yes/No]"

Bonus pissed off if No takes you to the homepage.

Sure, unless your layout has fixed-width paragraphs. I can pinch and zoom all I want, but if the text doesn't flow with the zoom, then I have to scroll right and read some, scroll left and read some, repeat.

We just wrapped up an annual overview of our sites and properties, and a whopping 65% of our traffic is from mobile this year (not sure if that's tying in tablets, however). They devices in hands are eating up the devices on desks, in our case, but it's hard to say if that's because it's more popular or because we spent time designing to make sure our customers ended up on decent mobile experiences.

Bingo. this is why we employ GOOD designers who follow a design through from wireframe to SASS and then support it for the life of the product. They work hard to learn and incorporate new technologies like SASS, Bootstrap, the Flex model, and others. They write good CSS so the developers can focus on functionality - backend connections making things work, and minimal frontend work to get what the client wants (uggghhhh "infinite scroll!")

And certainly not something you'd ever do, since you haven't tried? I find my "smart" phone does plenty of things I'd rather not do on my desktop - simple games, getting a quick look at /. or stackoverflow (and forwarding pages for later reading to my InstaPaper account), listening to music, making calls or videocalls. Smart phones do plenty of things well, but reading long blocks of text is not one of them.

There are also plenty of good ways around :hover - if you MUST have it, make the :hover state do something useful on a mobile browser. Is it a menu? Make the menu open on :hover if you're finding yourself on a mobile device. Is it a link that just gets an underline? Tag it with some class so that jQuery (or whathaveyou) just knows to go ahead and "click" the link. Watch out for some Android stock browsers though, they tossed out .click() on elements and you have to polyfill :( :hover doesn't have to be removed when you go mobile or responsive, but it should be accounted for in a way that doesn't make the user want to never come back.

That is the best website I've ever seen, and every designer at my job will see it. Bonus awesome for the use of the citation attribute in the blockquote - bam.

Chrome has begun to do more with UA-related stuff. Changing the UA now also implements "bugs" from other browsers. Example: IE7 I think had a weird problem with how I accessed a particular property, and Chrome reported it to me when I set the UA. Desktop at least auto-checks the dimensions for your "viewport," not sure if mobile does too - again, YMMV.

Bingo. I disable ads on desktop, but that feature is missing on mobile. Not only that, but I often find myself accidentally tapping an ad that hasn't loaded (why no width/height tags???).

At the verrrrry bottom is a "switch to full site" or something, but it only lasts so long, and oddly isn't tied to your account settings...