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by joelanman 16y ago
Couple of clever things about W3schools learning experience that are missing from Mozilla's site: - Working examples. W3Schools leads with them - Mozilla doesn't seem to have any. - The 'try it yourself' feature. Nothing cements learning li
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by joelanman 16y ago
Like this? http://huhcorp.com/
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by joelanman 16y ago
The thing that always bugs me about fluid layouts is line-lengths for pieces of text. In that example, the line length of the main text varies between about 280px (when the window is around 800px wide) and about 720px when the window gets s
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by joelanman 16y ago
I've been using http://www.backupify.com to backup my twitter account. It was really interesting to go back over my first tweets.
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Tischen - interesting directory for builders, plumbers etc(tischen.com)
1 points by joelanman 16y ago|0 comments
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by joelanman 16y ago
I didn't know about the hack day, but I found this page through Matthew's twitter: http://twitter.com/dracos
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Live map of the London Underground(traintimes.org.uk)
99 points by joelanman 16y ago|15 comments
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by joelanman 16y ago
I use the Seesmic web and Android client, mainly because they do a great job of showing conversations (click 'in reply to' in the meta message).
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by joelanman 16y ago
yes, you can resize them, change icon colours, augment/animate them on the fly, build them from live data..
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by joelanman 16y ago
It says you need to download safari to see the demos. This is not true - I can view them fine from another page on apple's site using Chrome. That seems misleading to me?
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by joelanman 16y ago
thats my point - the message is not clear, it's misleading
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by joelanman 16y ago
Except I don't need to download Safari to view all the demos - most of them work fine in Chrome if you run them from here: http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/
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by joelanman 16y ago
Using Chrome in Windows I can't even click through to the examples - I get a blocking pop-up telling me to get Safari. Doesn't that, coupled with the line "soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards" imply th
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by joelanman 16y ago
> Well, if that is your method then why not just shoulder-surf? Recording the session is useful for further analysis, and sharing with other team members. > isn't it about the bare minimum for a meaningful usability test to ensure t
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by joelanman 16y ago
The examples are all JavaScript code to detect support for new html5 tags/features. If the client doesn't support one, for example <video>, you can fail gracefully and maybe offer an alternative piece of content eg Flash.
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by joelanman 17y ago
- you can't bookmark or link to any page you come across - the address bar will always contain the digg bar URL - it's very insecure - phishing becomes much easier because the actual address is never shown
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by joelanman 17y ago
yeh it's nice work - I'm really interested in ways that web-based infographics and usability ideas move into the real world - the Guardian/Observer print design has some good examples. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hubmedia/4383021104/ I d