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> Is there some technical barrier for not enabling zoom? “Safari on iOS displays webpages at a scale that works for most web content originally designed for the desktop. If these default settings don’t work for your webpages, it is highl
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You shouldn't have to zoom in to a page, how do you use apps?
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I feel like a lot of these complaints are endemic to defining things in CSS using 'px' as units instead of more sensible (and repsonsive) modern techniques like defining type in 'pt' and widths in more complex units (per
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>Does it change your mind at all that you linked to a zoomable site? No, I said I decide based on the needs of the project and which devices will be supported which META tag makes the most sense. Not 100% of my projects disable zooming,
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My proposed list: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and White was no longer than their list, it was no more difficult to understand than their list, and it is scientifically sound. We have known for two centuries that the true primaries are Cya
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> Screenshotting is something that almost nobody knows how to do I got a really good laugh at this one, a cursory glance of user-generated content online shows tons of people not only know how to screenshot their devices, but are quite a
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Have I been on sites where I wished zoom was enabled? Yes Have I been on sites where I wished zoom was DISabled? Yes The point is, I design my stuff so it feels like a native app. I design my stuff so it is as accessible as the apps that ca
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11y ago
These aren't my user pleas, and these users haven't even seen my sites. We do listen to our users, and there absolutely IS such thing as licensing in this industry: http://www.rgd.ca/
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11y ago
Are you able to articulate 5 or more of those plentiful reasons? The reasons I can think you would desire to zoom in on a legible, functional, accessible website would be for curiosity, or to see a detail closer and admire the layout. The
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Nothing in my list was meant to be a justification for disabling zoom. My justifcation for that is: I am a formally trained designer and I design UI properly for the devices and hardware my projects are intended to be accessed with. The o
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> If I try to zoom, it is already a demonstration that your design does not work for me on my device. THIS! This is how I feel exactly! When you load up a site I do it is as well designed as a mobile app. Surely people don't complai
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11y ago
If zooming is better than having a properly designed layout for the device you are using, how did all the app developers get it wrong? Nearly every app on my phone is formatted for a small touchscreen, and not simply a desktop-sized progr
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If (cyan + magenta) + yellow = green, how would (cyan + magenta) + (cyan + magenta) + yellow = just cyan? To get cyan you simply remove the magenta from blue!
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Does your printer print with light? I'm able to print out a full rainbow from my printer and it uses Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow, with Black for added punch and printing text. What's inside your printer?
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I can tell you right now you're going to have some trouble with those colours. They reduced the colours to five: > Toki Pona has a five-color palette: loje (red), laso (blue), jelo (yellow), pimeja (black), and walo (white). Like a
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Well, thanfully it doesn't have to take much to turn standard HTML inputs into the types of eye-catching animated UI common on mobile. Here are two snippets from sites I've built that I have isolated for re-use. Feel free to use
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I do a lot of responsive design, and I turn zooming off So I CAN give you a proper responsive design that you can read and interact with on a small touchscreen. Why on earth would you prefer to pan around a desktop site designed for a big s
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Splash page is very attractive! Are you two curating stories and aggregating them into a big topical feed, or doing content generation yourselves? Best of luck on your upcoming launch!
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I use a text-based launcher (Quicksilver, Gnome Do) to launch my apps at the 'speed-of-thoght' by typing a few charatcers of the applications name on my desktop, why not the web? I thought: how come we cant control websites and th
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Hi! I helped build a competitor to FanDuel in the daily fantasy league niche as well. While our app did also allow real-money wagering with payouts, the focus of play was to be social and game with your friends rather than to make money or
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I'm no CLI wizard, so when I sit down to make my own function or alias I'm going to be googling how to do it whether it's for Bash or Fish. What I meant in my comment above is a lot of 'download an install' instruct
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Toronto resident, can confirm. I've heard more #panawful puns than I can count, but still have no clue what the games are.
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I use Fish shell on Ubuntu and OS X for basic stuff: file manipulation, using command-line apps, and occassionally doing some light shell scripting to automate my workflow. Coming from BASH this shell feels like a much-needed update! Instea
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There are two rates: 'pro', and 'pro bono'. Every job you do needs to come under your 'pro' rate. No referral discounts. No friend discounts. No family discounts, no ’deals' swapping services with other fr
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I don't think that's how rent is set right now. I believe people charge rent based on what people can bear to pay - so as long as another person with BI comes along willing to pay the higher rent, the landlord will sell to him ins
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I always understood this functionality as 'soft return' versus a 'hard return'. One adding a line break (like <br> in HTML) and the other starting a new paragraph (like <p>) with its own indent/margin&#x
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Google Notebook, Google Sites, Google Wave, Feedburner…
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Thats cool...until the day Google decides to close it and shuts down the service and all projects trapped on it. But until then, its pretty cool!
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People still think money is important? In the case of some massive catastrophe it seems as if the skills of people to recreate society and technology would be much more important than some treasure. In tbe event of a massive catastrophe, go
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11y ago
if the reward for losing body parts is high, people will find a way to make it happen to collect the reward! No matter how much you reward them, it can never be so much as to ever be an incentive to somebody.
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