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Making the Ugly Elegant: Templating With DOM
(camendesign.com)
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kroc
15y ago
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kroc
16y ago
What I’m proposing is that we replace PHP with a web browser so that the code we run on the server could be the same code we run on the client. To make it so developers only have to learn one language, one set of technologies. That will eve
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kroc
16y ago
No. Any well written web page can cache itself for offline use, and use AJAX to load all data after the first page. This is how iUI works, and therefore most iPhone-specific web apps.
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kroc
16y ago
Why. Why are we doing this? Why do people go and write this stuff when there is already the web. That doesn’t require an app store. It can use the same code as the actual website (imagine that). Why are we running so fast in the wrong direc
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kroc
16y ago
Site’s currently down (8:24 PM GMT, 10th) due to massive bandwidth. It is just a shared host and it suffices for 99% of the site‘s uptime. Google cache here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
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kroc
16y ago
How can there be demand if nobody is making it easy to use?
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kroc
16y ago
Well put; what I believe in is that user agents should do their absolute best to make the most sense of what information is available to it in the context of the UI paradigm of the user agent. i.e. there is not enough screen space on phones
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kroc
16y ago
RSS aggregators are used by the elite few. When websites start deciding to use Twitter and Facebook instead of RSS because it’s faster and gives them better features, and regular users understand it better, then there will be complaints.
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kroc
16y ago
because the browser is supposed to provide the button . Why do you think I’m worried? I don’t want to have to clutter my site with a button to an XML feed that nobody understands. I want the browser auto-discovery to do the right thing and
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kroc
16y ago
An alternative view of Captain Crunch: http://www.osnews.com/story/20606/_Captain_Crunch_on_Apple (see the snippet from the Recollection article). Read the full recollection article, this is an important read re: phreaking
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kroc
16y ago
Bear in mind that a HTTP Request is significantly slower than the bytes in the page. A request could be anything from .25s to 2 whole seconds, if the bandwidth is saturated. Not least problems with blocking other parallel downloads and dela
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kroc
16y ago
I don’t think you understand what “CSS hack” means.
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kroc
16y ago
Yes, the problem is that iPhone’s HTML layout engine breaks the page when you rotate the phone, then breaks it further when you rotate it back to where you were. I put the viewport tag in to solve the iPhone, but then the iPad came out and
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kroc
16y ago
Fixed, thanks for the keen-eye.
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kroc
16y ago
Scrollbar should be there, what web browser are you using? The y-overflow is hidden on html, but not on body for page-centering reasons but this has not affected browsers I have tested thus far. Maybe you’re on kHTML?
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The Price That Cannot Be Bartered
(camendesign.com)
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kroc
16y ago
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