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alexfringes
13y ago
I get this state for a while on a speedy connection and current machine: http://cl.ly/QbEs Chrome dev tools show a bunch of other images being loaded before the one that matters gets taken care of. (at 10s I get the image f
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13y ago
Nice use of imageLens! I like this a lot. Seems like somebody should add an intelligent lazyload to timelineJS or jerusalem_maps at some point. Your project really tests the limits on that front.
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13y ago
Almost rolled my own D3 timeline before adopting TimelineJS. Saved a bunch of time and still got a look that matched the rest of the project: http://bulger.wbur.org/story/1977/?location=44444 Can only recommend th
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13y ago
Marco Arment seems to think that this fall will be as close as we can get back to 08/09 for a while: http://www.marco.org/2013/06/11/fertile-ground
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14y ago
Regarding the iPhone's role in all this: in the early 2000s, Apple's OS X HIG used to make the distinction somewhat clear when to use the "more" skeumorphic/realist brushed metal style and when to stick to the core Aqua interface with its r
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14y ago
There is a value in social services "smoothing out the details" for a user. Naturally, this step requires the user to feel comfortable about entrusting those decisions to an app and it remains to be seen if people want to do this with dates
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15y ago
True. Surprisingly enough, they also use the Android style connect-the-dots unlocking UI for some of them.
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15y ago
I agree. Although the format has its drawbacks, the effort will get attention if the startup's culture is right. If it isn't, somebody like Margot probably would not be interested in working there anyways.
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15y ago
Initially, I was under the impression that this tool generates an image. Then I realized that it uses Google's Fonts–which makes it infinitely more useful for super fast logo prototypes. I would Make this more obvious. Don't hide the final