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by nilliams 14y ago
CSS 3D transforms are hardware accelerated on iOS, so yes they will look great. Chances are the parent poster isn't getting H/W acceleration, possibly due to driver issues etc.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Whilst you're right that Windows fonts are generally rendered poorly in comparison to Mac/Linux, this is especially an issue with web-fonts afaict. Web-safe fonts like Arial, Georgia etc look (pretty much) fine under Windows. In fact I thin
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by nilliams 14y ago
That makes sense, it would be nice if someone tested this theory to see if there were commonalities in which ads this apparent botnet liked. ... but then you'd assume that'd be something Facebook ran automated checks for.
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by nilliams 14y ago
What I see matches your screens. The font renders poorly on Windows (Chrome & Firefox), on 2 different PCs (one Vista, one Windows 7). Cleartype is enabled (default). I've seen similar problems with web fonts before, but this is especia
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by nilliams 14y ago
Sure, it is an absurd notion, notice my italics. But that's how people think, they want to know 'which is better'... or argue about it. >> Nobody cares about one individual model "winning" over some other The Internet begs to differ
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by nilliams 14y ago
Yes, what I'm saying is that there is an implication here that Samsung is winning against the iPhone. In reality they are simply selling handsets at price points Apple is not even competing for. The example you give of Dell vs Apple is
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by nilliams 14y ago
Yep, pissing off the odd developer is not going to eat into Apple's handset sales particularly.
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by nilliams 14y ago
In the UK it's £319 for a 3GS. That's still a very expensive phone and you certainly couldn't describe it as entry level. Samsung sells Android phones from around £89.99 [1] (probably cheaper, that was just a quick search). Depending on how
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by nilliams 14y ago
Yes, you're quite right. There's also a light throttle snippet (function.prototype.throttle) here: http://supplementjs.com/
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by nilliams 14y ago
Apparently it is not the case that the * selector is slow, see Paul's article. >> You might get up in arms about the universal * selector. Apparently you've heard its slow. Firstly, it's not. It is as fast as h1 as a selector
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by nilliams 14y ago
Very impressed with that, thanks for sharing!
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by nilliams 14y ago
Agree, probably the best example where it's okay to offer 'tip' type dialogs on opening the app "We've setup keyboard shortcuts for you, would you like to use them? (examples)". (Saving preferences for future visits).
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by nilliams 14y ago
This is why I love the JavaScript community. Tight little library, great API, brilliant project page. Excellent, shiny, hard. work.
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by nilliams 14y ago
You do have a point, this seems to be a fairly common way to vent yet still appear 'objective'. I do it myself sometimes, and occasionally pick myself up on it... mainly when I get away with it. :) I sense this is probably done quite a lot
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by nilliams 14y ago
I think there's a key point that hasn't been mentioned yet, that there may just be no need to deliver JavaScript to IE 6-8 at all . A lot of smart devs are already taking a similar approach with CSS, serving up a minimal 'print' stylesheet
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by nilliams 14y ago
Interesting stuff. Definitely a fan of these Collections helpers at the very least: http://documentup.com/jeremyruppel/walrus/#walrus-collection...
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by nilliams 14y ago
Have you used the Galaxy Tab 2? That's what I'm referring to, and it's really poor in a straight comparison to an iPad 2. Perhaps I've been unlucky and picked the worst of the bunch. Above poster suggests the ASUS tabs are considerably bett
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by nilliams 14y ago
Great, thanks that's good to know, my company is considering developing on Android and the Samsung tabs are very off-putting :)
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by nilliams 14y ago
Not trolling, but as a followup to my above post, I can't believe you think the S2 is smooth, have you compared it to an iPad 2/3?
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by nilliams 14y ago
Oh wow thanks, I hadn't realised that was the case, never actually heard anyone state that so bluntly. Is it safe to say the ASUS tabs are smoother?
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by nilliams 14y ago
>> Faster, Smoother, More Responsive Does all this finally mean it has actually caught up with iOS in terms of touch-lag? And is this finally admittance that there was a problem all along? I know some may jump to the defence of Andr
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by nilliams 14y ago
I think the parent is referring to the actual scrolling mechanic of the browser with a standard mouse-wheel rather than a performance issue.
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by nilliams 14y ago
I agree with you there and I'd be happy to see "use strict" in PHP.
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by nilliams 14y ago
No serious developer would lose months of work to this, that claim is completely ludicrous.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Selector engines are clearly not silly abstractions otherwise all major browsers would not have implemented querySelectorAll.
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by nilliams 14y ago
I would assume (perhaps wrongly?) he's referring to mixins, which allow you to easily re-use chunks of declarations (or objects). The pure OOCSS alternative to this is to separate your classes more. Quick example, OOCSS way of making the no
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by nilliams 14y ago
That's a good point. There's a cash machine near me with a trick question: 'Are you sure you wish to continue without a receipt?' Yes/No I have several times just seen the word 'receipt' and instinctively hit No (because I don't want a rec
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by nilliams 14y ago
Absolutely agree fp looks and feels great in CoffeeScript.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Does HTML5 validation really matter when your goal is to build an MVC JavaScript app? I'm not trolling btw, many others in the community have long had validation pegged as a red herring [1] [2]. Validation of your attributes is fairly meani
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by nilliams 14y ago
This syntax is clearly preferable, but I think you knew that or you wouldn't have written it :) I'm guessing the justification for the existence of the awkward var(varname) version is so that you can also have the parent-var(varname) no

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