AndrewSwift

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by AndrewSwift 3y ago
I think it's clear that the destruction of value is simply the destruction of value — the world is a poorer place afterwards. But, it's also obvious that the destruction of value can sometimes lead to increased production of value
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by AndrewSwift 3y ago
Mac user since 1987, Lisa user before. Mac windows do snap together when they're close to each other or the edge of the screen. You can option double-click any corner to make the window fill the screen without going into fullscreen mod
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
label as = L + first letters of label
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I'm not so much interested in how this applies to Twitter, but the idea that actively destroying processes so that one works exclusively towards actual goals intrigues me. I had not come across this idea before and it strikes me as a u
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Create chaos so employees will concentrate on goals instead of process(geohot.github.io)
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Yep, I have a friend that worked in anti-trust for the French government and she gave the example of "garanteed lowest prices" — looks great on the surface but actually serves to constantly monitor the pricing landscape.
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
My first programming job was manipulating data on a Lisa for a neighbor, while I was in high school. I loved that computer… it was so expensive and powerful! Then I went home to programming games in Basic on my CBM in the basement. With a t
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
You might like Svija — you can easily animate SVGs using Illustrator. It's not as powerful yet as Flash, but that's our goal. Disclaimer, I made it ;-)
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
By reuse parts of the page, I meant more that on a website where each page has the same 20 images, they don't have to be loaded by the browser after the first page because they're cached. I don't think I'll be able to co
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Thanks for the tip, I will look into it. I didn't know that was the case. It will actually be pretty easy to set up.
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Thanks for taking the time to answer, it means a lot to me.
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I modified the animation so it starts much more quickly. If I made them instantaneous, then a quick click would be enough but it wouldn't really be an animation — it would just be a state change. If I made the animation start with a cl
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
If it was JPG or PNG, you could not select the text, embed links, or reuse parts of the page. And nobody could copy the source code to make the web a better place. When someone says that SVG is just a big image — well, that is not always th
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I didn't know that PDF is a real standard — thank you. You didn't reply to any of my reasons for why PDF would be unusable for web pages. I don't mean to sound combative — I'm trying to learn as much as possible from the
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
It's true that I didn't answer your main point. Our objective is to create a format that is sufficiently stable that it won't need a fallback solution. SVG is incredibly consistant from machine to machine, much more so than H
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
It's actually worse ;-) because the pages are constructed in Illustrator, the order of text is all messed up. Elements that are drawn first are higher in the SVG, but that only means that they're in back in Illustrator — not that
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Thanks for the info. Sorry for crashing your computer.
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Yes, Svija requires javascript to work. It would be good (and I've added it to our dev list) to get a message when JS is disabled instead of just showing a broken page.
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
If you can be specific about what is broken in Firefox, I would be grateful. I have tested it on both the Windows and Mac versions of Firefox and didn't see any bugs. I did notice that Firefox isn't able to handle the animation as
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Would you be willing to share which computer, Linux version and browser you are using? In general we have not had any issues like this. If I had to guess it would say that it is the Vibe and Home pages that cause problems because they have
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Are you on Android or iPhone? Which model? Which browser? I assume you are using the phone in portrait mode. This seems like an actual bug and I would like to try to reproduce it if possible. If you're willing you can email me at andy@
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Thanks, I feel the same way.
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Sorry, one other point about the term responsive. I get that responsive, in this world, means sending different layouts depending on the client. I'm in a bind: If I say "no Svija's not responsive", people will assume tha
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
(OP here) The user can support whatever screen/window sizes they want, and set increments as they wish. I just do mobile and desktop because I'm mainly doing dev work and want to spend as little time as possible on the site. There
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I made a change that should help. By default, animations start and end "softly", because it's just nicer overall. For the buttons in question, I updated them so that they have a hard start and a soft end. The result is that i
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Mobile is a mess. Are you Android or iPhone? I don't know much about Android, but Apple wanted so badly to offer the "real internet" on the iPhone yhat they overrode lots of default browser events behavior. Things like mouseu
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Svija SVG's are embedded in HTML — it's necessary to get the page to resize correctly. We would like to integrate HTML elements wherever possible to display text. This would enable us to preserve semantic content, make accessibili
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Our plan is not to do responsive design — Svija is really meant for designers, and for any content that requires real design, there will need to be separate versions for mobile and desktop anyway. Part of what's fun about Svija is that
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Thank you so much.
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I agree, and in fact I only added this feature because a client requested it ;-) but I'm glad it did because it can be fun if it's done right. It can be very user-hostile, and reminds me of criticisms of Flash. I obviously can&#x2

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