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At the moment of writing this, VIMEO video embedding doesn’t work properly for mobile devices. Until a solution is provided, i worked on a solution for this.

This is what my solution does: via jQuery, it detects mobile devices, and replaces the embedded Vimeo video player by the appropiate link to the Vimeo website for mobile phones. In three easy steps:

 It can happen to you. You need one block to be different from the others. And I mean “different”, you know what I mean? It needs a big fat lot of exclusive CSS just for itself.

You need a way to point your CSS just to this block.

This is my experience with an Archos product and most important, with its customer service here in Spain. The experience has convinced me not to buy, and recommend people not to buy, any Archos product.

Update: Three months later, still no response from Archos. I contacted the Spanish Consumer Agency and filled a claim.

Update: I contacted the European Consumer Agency, and at last I got my unit repaired. I just needed seven months and a complain to the European Union. Awesome.

Many designers are currently moving from print to web these days. Of those many, a big part decide to focus on design and pay someone to make the HTML+CSS coding part. While this sounds like a wise strategy that let designers focus on what they do best, if they don’t bother to learn the limits of the web, they’ll soon pay the price with interests. Without realising it, they boycott themselves too often, making things harder to code. That means more time, more problems and probably a higher price on the coding side.