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Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?(smashingmagazine.com)
15 points by ja2ke 18y ago|3 comments
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by ja2ke 18y ago
It's effectively what the AP is asking though, or at least what they're insinuating that they're asking. Either to de-list, or to have Google list and index based on their stated (or paid, or bought) priorities. I wouldn't ever expect/want
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by ja2ke 18y ago
"the one with the best SEO wins while everyone else goes out of business, directly threatening the AP's bottom line." Versus what? The AP is somehow going to benevolently distribute all paid links equally amongst all of its various print cl
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I imagine it would be his clients who copyright their logos, not him. It's a rare day that the designer has any claim of ownership over a logo s/he does on contract.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Achieving "It's better, initially, to make a small number of users really love you than a large number kind of like you" is a lot easier with a really good support person.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I used Plainview a few weeks back for a small temporary kiosk setup at a convention we were doing. Worked really well. Obviously having a separate app is a little more cumbersome than just being able to grab a kiosk plugin to lock out basic
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Re: games? I tend to mostly lurk on two of the bigger ones - www.neogaf.com and the www.somethingawful.com games forums, though I also sometimes read the more industry-focused www.quartertothree.com and www.thechaosengine.com forums.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
There is often a strong desire to sub-categorize online communities, but the result often ends up just fragmenting the group and diluting anything interesting. I work in games, and as a result of that (and as a result of it being a hobby of
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Using "Best Buy" as shorthand for "big retail chain which sells games, but, no no, I'm not talking about GameStop here, no, ugh, I'm talking about everyone EXCEPT gamestop in this bit -- you know, the stores like Best Buy and that sort of t
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by ja2ke 18y ago
This would create a million apps far more horrible than even what's there now. Think the Windows "freeware" market.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
"Show don't tell" is an extremely valid point. I guess I was pleased enough to see that it was so apparent that they told their designers what they were excited about and that it was not the sort of thing that a professionally designed mark
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by ja2ke 18y ago
If they actually implemented them they wouldn't be mockups. If they hacked together some shim to get the text represented as in-browser text instead of baked into the image, people would waste time shitting on their code. Some people protot
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Try an I'm Feeling Lucky for "Firefox." "A lot of people know Mozilla is non-profit," sure, but more people know that there is a browser called "Firefox" and don't give two craps about Mozilla or non-profit or open source or anything else.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
There's a difference between Mozilla.org and Mozilla.com. These designs are for Mozilla.org, home of information about what Mozilla as an organization and the Mozilla foundation are about (as well as for developer resources, which I imagine
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I wonder how hard a sell this was at the pitch meeting. On one hand, it's pretty unorthodox, especially for a snack food or junk food, which generally have product sites which are the web equivalent of the back of a cereal box, at best. On
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by ja2ke 18y ago
A "standard of living" sounds like an objective or expectation which one sets personally or is set by your lifestyle or professional or personal peer group, whereas "cost of living" seems more like "the minimum amount of money it takes to g
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by ja2ke 18y ago
This is a stupid nitpick, but is California's standard of living higher on average, or is its cost of living higher? Implying that teachers get paid more so they can afford California's "standard of living" rings more accusatory to me tha
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by ja2ke 18y ago
One of my favorite weird old English things is "ye." It's interesting that the "y" in "ye" was originally not y but the Anglo-Saxon character "thorn" (þ). Thorn slowly devolved into "y" due to most offset printing typefaces coming from part
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by ja2ke 18y ago
The article is about the author and two chefs trying a series of different configurations of water volume and heat to try and find out what is traditional and what is the actual breaking point for making it not taste as good or be too much
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by ja2ke 18y ago
The App Store has nothing to do with subscription pricing. Are there explosively successful consumer software subscription services? All the ones I can think of which get close to piercing the general consumer consciousness are also-rans (N
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Yeah Firefox's address bar is the best. One feature which few people seem to know is the "keyword" field in bookmarks -- you can type a phrase in there (eg "bugs" for your local bug database) and Firefox will read that in the address bar pr
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Coming from the glass house of the HN comments section, a documented bastion of productivity...
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I enjoy that there isn't a race to "scoop" other HN reader-contributors as it stands now. There are plenty of outlets who live or die on scoops, and there will continue to be.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I'm not a fan. The new packaging looks like it contains a liquid I should be pouring in my washing machine, not my mouth.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Not that surprising. Most popular iPhone apps are built (and priced) to be treated like junk food.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I think that, while it makes for a fair enough educational springboard to use Call of Duty or whatever to talk to your kid about the Geneva Conventions, it also has the slightly off-putting side-effect of teaching your kids to take the cont
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Actual link: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/22/parent-of-gamer-asks.ht...
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by ja2ke 18y ago
You can downvote comments after a certain karma threshold but not stories. At least not that I know of, or at least at a different level than comment downmodding.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Steam has a fair amount of suspicious games. Nowhere near the amount as the App Store since Steam isn't a self-publishing platform, you have to sign agreements with them and get an account rep and stuff. Steam excels because it does a far b
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Seems like the solution would be to embrace Boxee and then raise your advertising rates because you've now got TV audience eyeballs watching Hulu content instead of Firefox-window eyeballs. I guess it's at that moment that you notice the wh

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