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by bilban 15y ago
Weird. I have a slight bias to the keyboard - so I think I tried right clicking, and didn't find the option. Anyway - it seems that you can drag and drop on to the dock.
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by bilban 15y ago
Twaddle! I find dark text on a white background unbearable. I'm much happier with off white on a dark background. Anyway - each to their own. It looked okay to me, apart from some tiny script in places. (Safari, OSX 10.4, 1280x854)
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by bilban 15y ago
When I say the dock I mean the big bar down the left hand side.
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by bilban 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, I have got a bit of a bad tab habit that I'm trying to break. It's all too easy to open loads of them, never to read the content. In the meantime they just use resources. I think having lots of tabs open isn't good for
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by bilban 15y ago
I was gutted that my Hardy Heron died two weeks before the release of Lucid. I swapped over to Debian, but use the LTS elsewhere. I treat other Ubuntus as Betas. I gave Ocelot a whirl this eve, and it's much better than my experience with
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by bilban 15y ago
I couldn't work this out either. Or work out how to edit the dock. How can I add Terminal say to the dock?
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by bilban 15y ago
Tried it on Nvidia 6200, initially all looked well. But something died with the desktop. Also compiz was constantly stealing about 8% of a 2GHZ cpu. So I reverted to 2D. Which was pretty similar - albeit for a few of the transitions. It
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by bilban 15y ago
Oh well, I've been using Firefox since it's pheonix, firebird days! I've never evangalised so hard about a piece of software, and every Linux and Apple user owe it a debt of gratitude, in as much that it was a good cross platform browser. P
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by bilban 15y ago
Most people?
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by bilban 15y ago
Up voting this, because - I'm also tired of keyboard shortcuts being messed with. I use space as a pager, in the browser - and this feels broke sometimes in gmail. I don't like backspace as back, but it shines like the spacebar in being a
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by bilban 15y ago
Interestingly the browser defaults have changed over time. When we used to use 640x480 and 800x600 monitors, the browser defaults - for something like a h1 took up most of the screen. That's half the reason designers (before the advent of
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by bilban 15y ago
Each to their own.
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by bilban 15y ago
It gets pretty tedious, when you are doing this for 80% of the sites you are visiting. Also on slower hardware - zooming is a drag, and it can be slow. The browsers do allow for customisaton, and I think this is probably the easiest thing f
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by bilban 15y ago
Re: fixed size layouts, I don't get this. You might be able to zoom these on the iphone, and scroll around the page easily with your finger. But I find fixed sized layouts can be a pain. Preferring fluid. Because at least I can resize
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by bilban 15y ago
This is a great one site solution, but it get's a bit tedious personalising each and every site individually.
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by bilban 15y ago
Another nice solution with Chrome and Opera is to set a default zoom. Up it to about 140%, and it will scale the page without breaking it.
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by bilban 15y ago
Opera has a nice fit to width toggle.
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by bilban 15y ago
Seriously consider an alternative. Tweak your browser to your liking. You can always break out into a different browser, if you want to see the site the way the author intended. I use my own style sheet with opera, and customise firefox f
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by bilban 15y ago
This is nice, but if you want consistency, and you browse alot, you have to use a different solution. Unless you are quite patient. You can always cut and paste instead.
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by bilban 15y ago
Same here only a decade on your age. I've been zooming since Netscape. No privacy in the office for me sadly. HN is unreadable for me without a little fine tuning.
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by bilban 15y ago
+1 for Opera. It is the only web browser I can get to obey my own style sheet. I also use my own style sheet, with my own choice of font. I use a slightly modified version of one of the w3c core styles. In Firefox, I just set a my own fon
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by bilban 15y ago
Attack of the drones.
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by bilban 15y ago
Not to mention that it canes my cpu at 73%. What a waste of time.
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by bilban 15y ago
Doldrums more like? ;)
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by bilban 15y ago
I'd rather my OS (desktop theme) be left to take care of the controls, which at least lends to better consistency than a myriad of different browser and site implementations.
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by bilban 15y ago
I happen to prefer the web in the main with JS turned off. I may be in a minority here, but surely it's not much effort to design with graceful degradation in mind?
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by bilban 15y ago
The post reminded me of a time where we had a form that exhibited odd behaviour. When selecting a check box by clicking the label - the page would change. It turned out that the id of the navigation link matched the check box that was ref
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by bilban 15y ago
It's also frustrating for users that have js disabled in their browsers, that can't comment on a blog post! At least notify the user before hand! Plus the labels on the comment form are after the input fields - and the fields are inline,
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by bilban 15y ago
I agree, I take cold showers because I enjoy them - they are far from torture! I think the bloke that wrote the article totally missed that. In winter I even take a cold shower - and always feel far warmer after - even if the water is lik
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by bilban 15y ago
Depends what you enjoy. Some people would rather work than relax. I've had colleagues that hang about at work for a little longer to avoid the drudgery of home life - or rather the hand over to the next shift. That said - I do agree with

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