It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 87 of The Treehouse Show, Nick and Jason (@jseifer) talk about style guides, writing great interface copy, the Ratchet framework, and more.

This Week’s Links

• Creating Style Guides · An A List Apart Article

• From Google Ventures: 5 Rules For Writing Great Interface Copy | Co.Design | business + design

• Ratchet

• http://dan-silver.github.io/ElementTransitions.js/

• Magic Animations CSS3

• tiimgreen/github-cheat-sheet

• John Resig – Write Code Every Day

• vis.js | a dynamic, browser-based visualization library

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The Cost of Waiting: Consider Long Term Care Insurance Now

A major challenge of retirement planning is finding an affordable way to fund the potential need for extended care, whether in your own home or in a facility. Recent studies show that most Americans underestimate the cost of long term care, while 56% overestimate the cost of the insurance that would defray those very costs.² Delaying the purchase of LTC insurance can have dire consequences.

Nothing impacts policy pricing more than age and health, so the sooner you purchase coverage, the lower the base rate for the life of your policy. Life-altering events can occur at any age, leaving one with few options for LTC insurance. Delaying your decision, plus the impending disappearance of industry discounts, equate to what we call “the cost of waiting.” This means there’s never been a better time for both men and women to research their LTC options than right now.

No-risk LTC consultations are available to our graduates at no cost as part of the UMBC Alumni Insurance Program. Visit http://meyerandassoc.com/umbc/ltc to download a free “10-Point Checklist” and then schedule your risk-free consultation by phone.

Regardless of your present age and health, the longer you wait to start your planning, the more it will cost in the long run—assuming you can still qualify when you’re ready.

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The Independent User Interface (Indie UI) Working Group today published the First Public Working Draft of Requirements for IndieUI: Events 1.0 and IndieUI: User Context 1.0. The document introduces use cases related to the IndieUI specifications and the technical requirements for meeting the use cases. IndieUI: Events defines a way for different user interactions to be translated into simple events and communicated to web applications. With IndieUI, web application developers will have a uniform way to design applications that work for multiple devices and contexts. It is introduced in the IndieUI Overview. One focus of IndieUI is enabling better user interaction in the mobile environment. This Requirements document provides an opportunity for early review of user needs to be addressed by the IndieUI specifications. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

by Janet McGlynn

This is important because:

1. Picturefill was a great solution already, and this brings it into the future encouraging the use of the future proper syntax.
2. You not only can use <picture> but <img srcset> too, which is a close cousin and useful when swapping sources with media queries alone would suck.

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Picturefill 2 is a post from CSS-Tricks