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16 May 2017

Presentation: Accessibility in a Responsive World, A11Y Days 2017

03 Feb 2017

Layersnap! Markup-driven SVG Animations

02 Feb 2017

Maintaining Accessibility in a Responsive World

13 Jan 2017

Modernizing our Progressive Enhancement Delivery

13 Jul 2016

I Wanted To Type a Number

15 Jun 2016

Snapper: A CSS Snap Points Carousel

10 Jun 2016

Enhancing Optimistically

26 Oct 2015

Delivering Responsibly

21 Sep 2015

Filament Group Wins Agency of the Year

17 Apr 2015

More Weight Doesn't Mean More Wait

16 Feb 2015

How We Load Web Fonts Progressively

04 Feb 2015

Introducing Grunticon 2! Style & Animate your SVGs

08 Jan 2015

How we use web fonts responsibly, or, avoiding a @font-face-palm

12 Dec 2014

Researching the Performance costs of JavaScript MVC Frameworks

21 Nov 2014

Responsible Responsive Design by Scott Jehl

15 Oct 2014

WOFF2 See the Wizard, a Wonderful JavaScript Feature Test

26 Sep 2014

To Picturefill, or not to Picturefill

13 Aug 2014

Congrats, Wilto

06 Aug 2014

Tablesaw - A Flexible Tool for Responsive Tables

30 Jul 2014

How we make RWD sites load fast as heck

14 Jul 2014

Tappy: A custom tap event handler

14 Jul 2014

Load CSS or JS Files Simply & Asynchronously

08 May 2014

Artifact Austin - Leaving Pixels Behind: A Vector Workflow for Designers

22 Apr 2014

Politespace, an unobtrusive alternative to input masks

21 Apr 2014

Picturefill 2.0: Use the picture element today

22 Jan 2014

So, You’re Writing A Responsive Images Script

13 Jan 2014

Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts

20 Dec 2013

Responsive Images 2013 Year-End Update

06 Nov 2013

Grade components, not browsers

02 Jul 2013

A Designer’s Guide to Grumpicon

19 Jun 2013

Introducing Grumpicon: A web app for easy SVG development

12 Jun 2013

Working around a lack of element queries

14 Dec 2012

Chatting with Adobe about Responsive Design and BostonGlobe.com

26 Nov 2012

SocialCount, a jQuery Plugin for Lighter & Faster Social Networking Widgets

09 Nov 2012

The `main` element

07 Nov 2012

Compressive Images

31 Aug 2012

Grunticon: A Grunt.js plugin for managing and delivering sharp icons to all devices

22 Aug 2012

The Two HTML Specs

09 Aug 2012

Responsive Carousel Project: Now Open Source

19 Jul 2012

On ems and rems

18 Jul 2012

How we learned to leave default font-size alone and embrace the em

20 Jun 2012

SouthStreet: a workflow for Progressive Enhancement, presented at An Event Apart Boston

22 May 2012

A different approach to qualifying CSS position: fixed

29 Mar 2012

Device & browser quirks: tracking the weirdness

28 Mar 2012

An Ajax-Include Pattern for Modular Content

27 Feb 2012

A Responsive Design Approach for Navigation, Part 1

24 Feb 2012

W3C Launches Responsive Images Community

21 Feb 2012

Overthrow: An overflow polyfill for responsive design

18 Jan 2012

Filament Group’s Open Source Code Repositories

05 Jan 2012

A Fix for the iOS Orientationchange Zoom Bug

29 Dec 2011

A Responsive Design Approach for Complex, Multicolumn Data Tables

17 Nov 2011

jQuery Mobile 1.0 Released

02 Oct 2011

Slides from Responsive & Responsible, Scott Jehl, Breaking Dev 2011

02 Oct 2011

Slides from jQuery Mobile State of the Framework 2011, Todd Parker & Scott Jehl

02 Oct 2011

Future-Friendly: Forward-Thinking Thoughts on Web Development

12 Sep 2011

Introducing the new responsive-designed BostonGlobe.com

24 Aug 2011

jQuery Mobile Pagination Plugin

26 Jul 2011

Filament Group’s Scott Jehl to Present at Breaking Dev

26 Jul 2011

Filament Group’s Scott Jehl to Give jQuery Mobile Workshop at dConstruct

07 Jun 2011

Ethan’s New Book

03 Jun 2011

Respond.js now available in Modernizr

02 Jun 2011

Respond.js: No Comments Necessary

16 May 2011

Slides from jQuery Mobile: Building Tools for a Changing Web, Mobilism Conference 2011

17 Apr 2011

Slides from our jQuery Conference Presentation on jQuery Mobile

11 Apr 2011

Filament Group to Present jQuery Mobile at jQuery Conference and Mobilism

30 Mar 2011

Corresponding on Responsive Design

11 Feb 2011

Building with jQuery Mobile: Slides from a talk by Todd Parker and Scott Jehl

08 Feb 2011

Respond.js: Fast CSS3 Media Queries for Internet Explorer 6-8 and more

14 Dec 2010

Responsive Images: Experimenting with Context-Aware Image Sizing

17 Aug 2010

Dingbat Webfonts: Great potential, but we see (and hear) accessibility issues

12 Jul 2010

jQuery Custom File Upload Input: from the book Designing with Progressive Enhancement

08 Jul 2010

Slides from Voices That Matter: Optimizing for the Mobile Web, Scott Jehl

08 Jul 2010

Slides from Voices That Matter: Designing with Progressive Enhancement, Todd Parker

11 May 2010

Using Internet Explorer Conditional Comments with EnhanceJS

08 Apr 2010

Expand and collapse content accessibly with progressive enhancement, jQuery, and ARIA

12 Mar 2010

Update to jQuery Visualize: Accessible Charts with HTML5 from Designing with Progressive Enhancement

17 Feb 2010

jQuery accessible ARIA tree control: from the book Designing with Progressive Enhancement

08 Feb 2010

Introducing EnhanceJS: A smarter, safer way to apply progressive enhancement

02 Feb 2010

Announcing our book: Designing with Progressive Enhancement (Peachpit)

08 Dec 2009

Filament Group’s chapter on Theming in O’Reilly Media’s “jQuery Cookbook”

14 Oct 2009

Filament Group’s Visualize canvas charting technique demonstrated at FOWA London

14 Sep 2009

jQuery Conference 2009: The jQuery UI CSS Framework and ThemeRoller

04 Aug 2009

Presenting “Rich UI Design: An Access-Oriented Approach” at Delve:UI Conference, NYC

01 Jul 2009

Accessible, Custom Designed Checkbox and Radio Button Inputs Styled with CSS (and a dash of jQuery)

19 Jun 2009

jQuery UI Selectmenu: An ARIA-Accessible Plugin for Styling a Custom HTML Select Element

20 May 2009

Update: jQuery Plugin for Retaining Scalable Interfaces with Pixel-to-Em Conversion

24 Apr 2009

Update: Styling the Button Element with CSS Sliding Doors - now with Image Sprites and IE 8 Support

24 Apr 2009

Access-Oriented Web Design: Building highly-interactive web apps that work for everyone

16 Apr 2009

jQuery UI Slider from a Select Element - now with ARIA Support

02 Apr 2009

jQuery Menu: Dropdown, iPod Drilldown, and Flyout styles with ARIA Support and ThemeRoller Ready

12 Mar 2009

SXSW 2009: We’re Texas-Bound!

06 Mar 2009

jQuery UI 1.7 Now Released!

03 Mar 2009

Image-free CSS Tooltip Pointers - A Use for Polygonal CSS?

02 Mar 2009

jQuery Plugin for Requesting Ajax-like File Downloads

18 Feb 2009

Using Multiple jQuery UI Themes on a Single Page

12 Feb 2009

Introducing the ThemeRoller Firefox Developer Bookmarklet

10 Feb 2009

Filament Group’s ThemeRoller selected as a finalist in 2009 SXSW Web Awards

29 Jan 2009

Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery UI CSS Framework

22 Jan 2009

Achieving Rounded Corners in Internet Explorer for jQuery UI with DD_roundies

05 Jan 2009

Date Range Picker using jQuery UI 1.7 and jQuery UI CSS Framework

15 Dec 2008

Filament Group a jQuery UI Sponsor and Design Team Lead

06 Oct 2008

jQuery Camp 08 Presentation: Designing Reusable jQuery Components

23 Sep 2008

A List Apart: Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement

25 Jul 2008

Setting Equal Heights with jQuery

11 Jun 2008

Develop Your Own jQuery “ThemeRoller-Ready” Components

08 Jun 2008

Introducing ThemeRoller: Design & Download Custom Themes for jQuery UI

04 Jun 2008

Update: A New & Improved jQuery Script to Automatically Preload images from CSS

14 Mar 2008

Markup & Style Society recap