In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about Responsive Images and HTML5 Form Inputs.

Here are the links for the week:

Midway.js | Automatically center responsive elements! | A project by Shipp Co.
http://shipp.co/midway/

Say Goodbye to Painful Image Loads on Small Devices. Say Hello to Interchange. by ZURB
http://zurb.com/article/1211/say-goodbye-to-painful-image-loads-on-sma

A Guide to the New HTML5 Form Input Types
http://sixrevisions.com/html5/new-html5-form-input-types/

Prinzhorn/skrollr
http://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr

Flippant.js
http://mintchaos.github.io/flippant.js/

Yes, you really can make complex webapps responsive
http://adioso.com/blog/2013/06/responsifying-adioso/

Progression.js
http://git.aaronlumsden.com/progression/#demo

Ughck. Images. – daverupert.com
http://daverupert.com/2013/06/ughck-images/

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Webfonts have been revolutionary on the web; they’ve changed the appearance of websites in a way that arguably no other web technology has.

Yes, it’s true that many webfonts aren’t hinted correctly for Windows; yes, it’s also true that many haven’t been drawn for the screen; yes, it’s also true that matching available webfonts to fonts used for print work can be difficult, if not impossible. At least, that used to be the case.

Those designer headaches may now become a thing of the past with the launch of Cloud.typography from the Hoefler & Frere-Jones type foundry.

H&FJ have been one of the most prolific type foundries of the last quarter-century, but until now most of their fonts haven’t been available for the web. Their new service, Cloud.typography, is a long awaited solution to that issue.

Each H&FJ typeface is presented with a rich biography.

Fonts are more than an author’s handwriting, they’re tools for articulating information. Cloud.typography gives designers the tools they need to communicate in the ways that readers deserve. Its webfonts have rich style palettes and deep character sets, to help designers present content with clarity, subtlety, and distinction.

Like Google fonts, Cloud.typography is a CSS solution with no JavaScript required — presumably the fonts are encoded as base64 strings. Far more importantly Cloud.typography carries the complete H&FJ collection, over 900 fonts, which means some of the very best typefaces are now available for web use.

A huge range of character options are available in fonts like Hoefler Text.

Cloud.typography also introduces H&FJ’s ScreenSmart collection, which is a set of 250 workhorse fonts that have been redesigned and engineered for use on screens. This enables clarity and character that you often don’t see in lesser-quality webfonts; with ScreenSmart fonts you can actually see the difference between bold and semi-bold, even at body text size. You can select from a variety of styles, include extra characters like ligatures and small caps, or remove them to keep file size low.

Comparing Hoefler Text with Times.

The biggest news is that the typographers’ favorite, Gotham, is now available as a webfont. For web use only, the classic typeface is free for use by subscribers. What’s more, Gotham has been redesigned for use at small screen sizes as part of the ScreenSmart fonts collection.

The new ScreenSmart Gotham.

Comparing Gotham ScreenSmart with Helvetica at 14pt.

Inevitably this comes at a cost. However, the price is surprisingly reasonable: subscriptions start from $99 per year for up to 250,000 pageviews, and that $99 includes your first 5 webfont packages. You can build as many projects as you like, but only 10 can be active at once (adding another 5 costs $1 per month).

Cloud.typography is not as cheap as Google Webfonts, or (for those with a CC subscription) Adobe’s Typekit. However, for the discerning type professional with a love for quality typography, H&FJ’s webfont offering is like manna from heaven.

Have you subscribed to Cloud.typography? Will you be overusing Gotham in the near future? Let us know in the comments.

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W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context.

A deliverable of the webinos project, this edition highlights some of the HTML 5.1 features that are most relevant on mobile, integrates more specs from the SysApps Working Group. It also features a printer-friendly PDF version, and makes it easier to contribute to test suites via github.

Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices.

Intel announces the re-release of the XDK HTML development tool following the original launch of the tool back in April.

WSJ Startup of the Year

First-year Cybersecurity MPS student Andrew Shiffer placed third in Microsoft's "Cybersecurity 2020" student essay contest.  The contest allows Microsoft to solicit original research about cybersecurity policy challenges from university students at any stage in their educational careers.  Andrew's paper is entitled "A Cybersecurity Triumvirate: Policies, Outcomes, and Emerging Trends."

Andrew will receive $2,000 prize (which he is applying toward his studies at UMBC) and the opportunity for his work to be published by Microsoft at a later date. According to a follow-up note from Microsoft, it appears that Andrew is the only American finalist — the first and second place students both came from Canadian universities.

Well done, Andrew!

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