Isofarro

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Data visualization should be elegant not beautiful(excelcharts.com)
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Why “open always wins” isn’t the point(webdirections.org)
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by Isofarro 13y ago
Not necessarily. You can make an ajax request to a static resource. The server doesn't have to be a dynamic process. Static resources are just files. A client-side JavaScript Twitter could be done this way. Every tweet, or timeline can
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BBC Mobile Accessibility Guidelines(bbc.co.uk)
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The story behind the BBC Mobile Accessibility Guidelines(headstar.com)
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by Isofarro 13y ago
This is quite interesting: https://twitter.com/johnhemmingmp/status/361612814902771712 John Hemming MP: "I have written a TCP/IP stack and the second implementation globally of SSL." That is impress
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Letter to my MP about web censorship(brucelawson.co.uk)
5 points by Isofarro 13y ago|5 comments
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by Isofarro 13y ago
You ask for permission to do your job properly?
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by Isofarro 13y ago
You charge extra to do it properly?
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by Isofarro 13y ago
"Screenreaders in generally do not support JavaScript." Please stop saying that. It hasn't been true for a good 5 years or so. * http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/javascript-and-screenreade... * http:&#
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by Isofarro 13y ago
It's not a question of having JavaScript enabled/disabled. It's a question of whether the JavaScript gets delivered from your server to the client's browser properly and fully in a state that it can be executed successfu
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by Isofarro 13y ago
So he starts with a JavaScript only application, then retrofits in a progressive enhancement layer in a Google-specified query string parameter. He could just as easily done the core experience first with HTML, got a URL structure that is f
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by Isofarro 13y ago
> So many times when speaking to employers/product owners about progressive enhancement of JavaScript components, the answer I get back is along the lines of "we don't care about that" or "we don't have the
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by Isofarro 13y ago
But you have to implement this "extra functionality" already. Or, how are you dealing with situations where your JavaScript fails to reach your user's browser? How are you dealing with situations where the JavaScript arrives
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by Isofarro 13y ago
> It's even more relevant now with all the front end > JavaScript frameworks that so many web apps rely on > these days. Hardly. The number of people who chose to disable JavaScript is utterly dwarfed by the factors that get
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by Isofarro 13y ago
> How are we meant to handle AJAX requests that fetch data to display on the web page that allows users to achieve the goal of their visit? Make the request from your server, parse it on your server, template it on your server, and deliv
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by Isofarro 13y ago
I'm fairly sure that's been tried before - with XHTML2 and disappeared down some black hole never to reappear - http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/summary . And HTML trundled along unwanted in
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by Isofarro 13y ago
That quite qualifies as an example of a broken web development flow. A blog post that depends on JavaScript and Heroku? It's a bunch of static text, for goodness sake.
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by Isofarro 13y ago
The US doesn't have the strong hand it had a few weeks ago: catching China redhanded breaking into US servers. That was a bigger trump, until the US got caught doing the very same thing. The "you didn't give us Snowden"
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by Isofarro 13y ago
The US has lost it's moral high ground over freedom and privacy, it's bordering on hypocritical. We know the Chinese government at the national level can see at any time what is going on in Chinese variants of social networking si
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by Isofarro 13y ago
Former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer was arrested in Japan's Narita International Airport attempting to travel using a revoked US passport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Detention_in_Japa... Thou
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by Isofarro 13y ago
Don't do this for web development. The browser emulations are just that, emulations, and they fail to be perfect emulations. Which means you are likely to be fixing rendering issues and buggy behaviour in the emulated version that don&
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Microsoft buys ToDoApp.com domain for $4,000(domainnamewire.com)
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First Apple computer could fetch half million in auction(mashable.com)
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by Isofarro 13y ago
He runs his own authoring system, OPML Editor (a derivative of Userland Radio / Userland Frontier). That listens on port 5337. So that's fetching something local, except it will only work on his box, possibly anyone else running OPML Editor
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By any other name(adactio.com)
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Progressive enhancement(gov.uk)
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The new Flickr: What you need to know(uk.news.yahoo.com)
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by Isofarro 13y ago
Yahoo sold delicious 2 years ago: http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/27/yahoo-sells-delicious-to-yo... And killed their social network about 4 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_360° And they tried a Facebook partnership that kin
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by Isofarro 13y ago
> The 5 rss feed limit is part of our business model. Feeds consume resources and resources cost money. Unique feeds consume resources. Two customers following the same feed should not double the resources needed to support that feed. C

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