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by mgcross 16y ago
I ran the "Man in Blue" tests: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2010/03/22/ on my N1 running Flash 10.1 in the default (webkit-based, I assume) browser and was surprised at how much faster Flash was than the HTML or canvas
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by mgcross 16y ago
Sure, N1 here, happy to test.
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by mgcross 16y ago
Unfortunately, IE 8 won't render SVG at all. I suppose graphics could be designed in a vector-based tool like Illustrator that can export SVG for compatible browsers as well as raster for lte IE8.
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by mgcross 16y ago
Agreed, for the most part. I've got an N1 and a serious case of iPhone game envy. But Angry Birds is coming to Android, PopCap is committed to Android, and Unity 3.0 will support Android.
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by mgcross 16y ago
I always use swfobject.js and include alternate html content for flash-only sites. Google will pick up the alternate content rather than crawl the flash, from what I gather. A few years ago, before I included alt content, Google was indexin
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by mgcross 16y ago
Zimbra threads messages and offers the best webmail I've found outside of Gmail. Definitely feels more sluggish than Gmail though.
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by mgcross 16y ago
FF 3.6.3 under OS 10.6.3 is as smooth for me as Safari or Chrome. Are you using 10.6? Which incremental version of FF 3.6? Just curious.
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by mgcross 16y ago
I've got <8000 emails at around 2GB. Gmail seems to have been slow for the past couple of weeks, but it does vary. Usually 20-30 seconds to load Gmail; 15-20 seconds to open an email. 30 seconds or more to send. I just hid chat, buzz an
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by mgcross 16y ago
My daughter (11) may be into this, but my son (8) probably wouldn't. He likes games too much. He still plays Club Penguin some, but Garry's mod is where he spends his screen time now.
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by mgcross 16y ago
As much as I completely understand remaining somewhat anonymous for privacy issues (my facespace acct is so overpopulated that I feel awfully muzzled), I often click through to a poster's profile not so much to check out their name or reput
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by mgcross 16y ago
More than that - most are too stylized to be used for body copy. You'd be amazed at how many times art directors or clients have forced me to use images for large chunks of copy. For the most part I agree with you and feel that font-size, l
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by mgcross 16y ago
Looks nice on Mac. According to the screenshots, they're antialiased in Ubuntu also.
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by mgcross 16y ago
The descenders in the Droid sans headlines on Smashing are cropping for me in vista. The fonts are also aliased, but if I remember correctly, typekit also only produced aliased fonts in windows.
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by mgcross 16y ago
Yes, and typekit has a huge and varying library of fonts available: http://typekit.com/libraries/full
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by mgcross 16y ago
Unfortunately, IE8 doesn't do much better.
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by mgcross 16y ago
Nice demo, but I feel that the title is a little misleading as the CSS is more so webkit-specific CSS than it is CSS3.
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by mgcross 16y ago
are you viewing in FF? I am and noticed some of the logos aren't displaying - but they do in Chrome. Nice presentation, but "HTML5" shouldn't mean "webkit only".
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by mgcross 17y ago
FF is hardly obsolete. The presentation used vendor-specific extensions (-webkit-) that are not part of the CSS3 spec, much less HTML5. Many of the features could have been implemented in FF had the author used -moz- alongside -webkit-.
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by mgcross 17y ago
After working in Mac-centric development environments for the past 12 years, I can't say I'm enamored with Apple's hardware track record. The desktops have been for the most part reliable, but the laptops and iMacs have not fared so well. A
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by mgcross 17y ago
It is indeed a confusing 'infographic'. Intel's rect (332,352px) is 100x the size of iWeb's rect (3,192px), but Intel's server count is only listed as 10x that of iWeb. I'd rather see a graphic with a 1:1 ratio of servers to pixels.
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by mgcross 17y ago
Flash is indeed slower on Mac - both plugin and authoring - but the 10.1 plugin seems to have closed the gap. Photoshop Mac definitely seems to perform better than it does in Windows.
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by mgcross 17y ago
"Innovate or die, bitches." Childish at best. And I'm certainly no stickler for grammar and style, but I had trouble reading past this one: "Matter of fact, it was sure of its decision to forget OS X development that it focused Premiere sol
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by mgcross 17y ago
I think it has been - Blender foundation is a participates in Google's Summer of Code: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GSoC/2010/Info
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by mgcross 17y ago
I would have agreed a few years ago, but the interface has come a long way, especially with the 2.5 alpha: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Blender_2...
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by mgcross 17y ago
True, after all, there is an iWork suite of apps for the iPad.
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by mgcross 17y ago
Agreed, but a small form factor netbook shares many more similarities with the iPad than a full-fledged laptop. My 9" EeePC is light and comfortable to use on the couch, in bed or even standing in line at the DMV. The keyboard is too small
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by mgcross 17y ago
Find and replace all instances of "iPad" with "netbook" and the article describes my netbook usage.
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by mgcross 17y ago
Based on the screen size, the onscreen keyboard should have dimensions similar to a 9-10" netbook. But a netbook keyboard has a lot more keys crammed into that space. Look what's missing on the iPad keyboard: http://images.apple.com/ipad/f
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by mgcross 17y ago
I can't imagine being able to complete an animated banner ad implemented in HTML5/JS (or Flex for that matter) in anywhere close to the time it would take within the Flash IDE. Using the Flash IDE, I can also apply JPEG compression to 24-bi
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by mgcross 17y ago
I haven't noticed, but I usually stick Firefox (for firebug). Using the Flash version of the animation test posted a few days ago: http://themaninblue.com/experiment/AnimationBenchmark/flash/ I get 27-29fps in Safari 4.04 and 48-50fps in

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