noblethrasher

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User Interface Design: Notifications and (avoiding interruption of) Flow(blog.mozilla.com)
17 points by noblethrasher 18y ago|0 comments
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Pretty sure he or she is talking about input forms for end users. That said, I like FCKEditor but I haven't really used any others. Last time I played with it, it was pretty easy to customize even if I had to resort to manipulating it objec
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Photoshop isn't a bad way to design a web template. The problem with knowing too much about the underlying tech is that you limit yourself in imagining what's possible (e.g. you naturally want to avoid too much css trickery). That said, I w
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
I use that one quite a bit. Especially when I think of data that occurs in key/value pairs. The only problem is that I wish that the markup was <dt><dd></dd><dt> so that I the key/value pairs were in their ow
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Maybe, but it is open source and was developed with constant feedback from the developer community so that indicates something of a new direction on the part of MS.
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Not to mention that IE's box-model (in quirks-mode) is actually sane compared to the W3C standard. see : http://books.google.com/books?id=ZCPWYFoWaMIC&pg=PA289&#...
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
IE + hacks, with respect to technical debt, is like one of those credit cards that offer 0% interest and free miles for the first 6 months after which it switches to a non-premium card with a 37% APR.
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Yes, but it's not usually one bug. A bug here and a bug there and pretty soon you're talking about real money. IE7 isn't so bad but I'm seriously contemplating dropping support for IE6 very soon.
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
The ironic thing is that Internet Explorer + HTML Applications (HTAs) is a much, much better desktop platform than a web browser. In fact, it’s probably one of the best client side platforms for Windows. You can extend it with any Active
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Academic Application Suites like Blackboard and the University IT system - but that's mostly for allowing better interoperability between organizations on campus. My wireless telephone service provider. I would especially like to be able to
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
IE5 had an add-in (a power toy I think) that allowed you to create a string as a shortcut to a search engine so you could type something like the following into the address field: g:foo and do a google search for 'foo'.
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
I'm in. rod at ennobleit dot com
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Thanks for the reply. You mentioned that OCaml was one of your first languages and I guess I assumed that you learned it at a similar age which is not necessarily the case... but that's why I suggested Haskell. Also, I can appreciate that t
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Those are good points. However, I don't think Haskell is that much harder than something like SQL once you really understand what's going on. Although it's not much more than an informed hypothesis, I do think that a precocious 13 year old
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Since you know OCaml how about teaching him Haskell followed by C? The former should be pretty accessible to a 13 year old and he’ll have a lot of time to wrestle with some of the more difficult concepts like Monads (although I think exposu
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
To discover truth and beauty and then then share them through empathy in design and argument.
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
It's trivially implemented in something like Jquery. Just give related elements the same class name. $('.someClass-xx') .mouseover(function () { $('.someClass-xx').each(function () {/* Do Stuff */}) }) .mouseout(function () {
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Nice but almost certainly better implemented in Javascript rather than pure css.
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
IE already supports font embedding and has for years. Their font embedding tech was developed with input from the font making industry and they plan to make the technology available for other browser vendors to freely use. Bill Hill, an MS
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
Interesting. Grades would be a much more useful metric if the course description and course syllabus were available as well.
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by noblethrasher 18y ago
http://www.math.utah.edu/~palais/pi.pdf Yes, it is an enlightening article. After I read it the first time, I immediately began going through my old Complex Analysis and Physics textbooks. That was one of the few experiences I would descr
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by noblethrasher 19y ago
I think what the parent meant is that such a tree is fundamentally relational (not merely that it can be modeled as such). Since a relation is just a mapping between tuples and a set of logical values (TRUE and FALSE in most cases) then c
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by noblethrasher 19y ago
What about having an open source friendly license as well as one for enterprises IT and software vendors ala MySql?
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by noblethrasher 19y ago
I was aware of that possibility. Still, implementing a standard encryption algorithm shouldn't be hard.
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by noblethrasher 19y ago
"However, installing Java and loading and running the Java applet can be annoying" Any reason that they can't use Flash?
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by noblethrasher 19y ago
I'm not typically a Microsoft basher but this isn't a big deal. The .NET source code has always been available via Reflection. Download Lutz Roeder's Reflector, disassemble one of the classes shown in the blog post and compare the disassemb