brianfryer

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by brianfryer 14y ago
I was just talking about mobile ads yesterday saying they feel like they're designed to trick me into clicking them. This article confirms my suspicions :-/
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by brianfryer 14y ago
1) If you aren't going to be sincere, don't apologize. 2) If your expectations aren't being met, ask for what is missing. Don't come out as an antagonist belittling the author. Thatnk you for your consideration.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
It's attitudes like this that make HN comments so dismal. Ugh. This is an interesting tool, developed by a group of people doing interesting things, and it's been shared with the world for others to use and/or improve on. While I'm personal
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by brianfryer 14y ago
And Automattic is the company to build it.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
If you use memes on HN, you're going to have a bad time. (They tend to be downvoted to oblivion, 'round these parts.)
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Are you saying that having an appropriate domain name is no longer relevant because the simple fact that Google is aware of a site, people (read: potential customers) have a likely chance of finding it? Domain names containing relevant keyw
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the heavy usage of Bootstrap that's been going on lately. Bootstrap not only makes it simple to visualize the construction of a page, but their documentation is really easy to understand (while HTML's documentatio
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like discussing HN posts. So I made a HN post to discuss 4chan's post discussing HN posts.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Not necessarily. Most of those things are iframes, so technically it's FB linking back to FB.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Wow, thank you SO MUCH for mentioning Colllor. Can't wait to use it in my next project :-)
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by brianfryer 14y ago
This x 1000. I share the same co-working space with WP Engine, and couldn't be more impressed with their service and their team. Kudos, WPE.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
I'll quote ricardobeat's comment above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4284877 ): "Not every, but 95% do. For the rest, there are other pssibilities and tools to make sense of it (microdata, ARIA attributes, etc). Just ignoring semant
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by brianfryer 14y ago
I agree I still have much to learn. But I don't let this get in the way of trying to "do things right" :-)
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Exactly this. And for the 5% that doesn't work, that's what <div>s are for!
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by brianfryer 14y ago
With that logic, HTML is feature complete and no longer requires anymore upgrades, as we can just use <div>s to our hearts' content. Semantic HTML makes the web a better, more consistently understandable, place.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
> HTML tags are meant to be semantic. I totally agree with this and gave my own detailed explanation of the difference between semantic and non-semantic HTML here --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4284054
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by brianfryer 14y ago
I can totally see something like this being used as a tool to teach designers how to code. Design something > run it through some secret sauce > output HTML/CSS + provide explanations/advice/best-practices/etc.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
@dmix: Totally feel you on "organic HTML". Yes, Photoshop is a fabulous tool for making graphics, and playing with ideas... but something about handwritten code feels really good.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestions! I've been wanting to try out a number of pre-processors, but I haven't figured out a way to be able to edit it live (which REALLY speeds up development). However, I'll definitely give SMACSS another (more thoroug
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by brianfryer 14y ago
> divs are as semantic as you want them to be. Then they are not semantic at all. <div class="content">, <div class="post-title">, <div class="meta-data"> all have semantic CSS class names. But they are not seman
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by brianfryer 14y ago
As a designer, I've never "implemented" in Photoshop. Ever. Illustrator, yes (a long time ago), but there's nothin' like coding your own design. In fact, I design entirely with HTML/CSS (using the Live CSS Editor feature of the Web Develo
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by brianfryer 14y ago
> How on earth are div's non-semantic? Most things on a page are just "boxes" -- not lists or links or images or paragraphs, just boxes. And div's are the correct thing to use in this case. Because most things on a page are not "just bo
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by brianfryer 14y ago
This makes me happy! Back when I was learning how to code my own HTML/CSS, I really could've used something like this to help understand how HTML/CSS works together. Being able to edit tags is a great feature :-)
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by brianfryer 14y ago
As a visual designer who has learned to code, I feel that this is not a good idea for the simple fact that it outputs non-semantic HTML (divs are not semantic HTML) and CSS "class soup". I am all for getting more designers to output code (t
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Kinda weird being told I need to switch to Chrome from Chrome (for iOS).
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by brianfryer 14y ago
While I'm totally stoked for seeing this concept come to fruition, these are the worst reward tiers I've ever seen on a Kickstarter campaign. The $5 minimum should be $10 or $15, and there needs to be a tier between this one at the $50 ti
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by brianfryer 14y ago
If you want to eventually learn web programming, pick up a language like Python (well documented, mature language). It seem, though, as you don't see yourself walking down that path. In that case, learn PHP. it'll get you what you need to g
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Thesaurus.com is one of best friends. I use it all the time to discover better ways to articulate my thoughts & feelings.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
Totally agree. When I read "not complaining", it conjures images of complaining. Rather, a stronger focus on "commending" "applauding" would be apropos.
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by brianfryer 14y ago
"In English, a verb cannot be substituted with a noun" I beg to differ. You should Google that.

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