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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
I dont think any of the Android clients use the Instapaper API ( http://www.instapaper.com/api/full ) - they scrape the website, making it impossible to do things like sync reading postion across devices. There is a decent Window Phone 7 cl
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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
Original here : http://foundry.mintdigital.com/post/11104229347/a-tribute-to...
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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
> as you only have to deal with one version of Firefox, work around the problem in your web app code. Ah, of course, wish I'd thought of that. And what do you tell them in the interim, while the problem is being debugged, fixed, tested
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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
"If it's your webapp, you check the User-Agent-header" Thats fine if your communication is only via your website. Consider if you have to send an email bulletin and explain this. Or write it up in a technical support answer. "If it's someb
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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
Yea, here's a better one. Game consoles, both popular and unpopular, with tablets both popular and less popular : http://www.ryanwatkins.net/images/tablet-gameconsole-sales.p...
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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
Been using it for several months now, but would have to agree with this. It often seems to churn away endlessly shoving meta data back and forth, and has periodically gotten confused about what files have been deleted or moved. Also had an
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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
csslint css = 0 errors and 2 warnings. Thoughts?
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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
600px may be fine for Hotmail, but I think the bigger question is how to deal with people reading this HTML mail on mobile clients with smaller screens. People are reading alot of email on mobile devices and its increasing. A table 600 px
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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
Yes, click the slightly non-obvious "Aa" item added at the top and it will open options to customize. There are two rectangle icons that allow you to increase and reduce the margin.
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by ryanwatkins 15y ago
Which then proceeds to cut off the first paragraph. Instapaper's Text view works better here. http://www.instapaper.com/extras http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.t3.org%2Ft...
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
Charge them a license fee to shoot the elephants in need of shooting, and increase that fee until supply meets demand. Now its sustainable economically, if possibly not morally.
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
Or you use the web technologies for a "native" app and focus only on the browser for that platform. Then port to others as needed, rather than trying to support them "all" from day one on a web app. Certainly a web app is usually still not
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
And the point about the former services keeping a single copy and this one keeping one per person. I'm sure thats a key distinction. The former services like mp3.com were not positioned so much as "upload your mp3's here" but "put your CD
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
I could care less, but companies have done it several times. Netscape skipped version 5 (a doomed project). Microsoft ditched version numbers for years (95, 98, 2000), and then just names -- due to how version number increments on an existi
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
They've need to do it to reach version number parity with IE and Chrome. 9 and 11 > 4.
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
They probably dont care if they are torrented or not, they likely care if they are made public.
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
Have any apps other than Stacks for WP7 been built to this subscription only API?
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
I'd say the "higher end game apps" are PDK apps, often because they're just porting existing iOS code. They have no need for the HTML UI. With OS 2.x there are now options for hybrid apps as well - native code, but HTML UI. And the opti
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
They're nice and all for not having to use a cable, but neither appear to wake up, see if there is anything new and automatically download it. This way I wake up in the morning, take the subway to work and my data is already "just there".
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
> HP are coupling webOS with HP PCs, instead of putting webOS on the Web There is no reason to believe they will not also do this. Use the service architecture to allow Enyo development to expose device specific system services (telepho
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
Its not trivial to divorce these "post PC" devices, but its just increasingly lame to require it, and several others have overcome the hurdle. Android has. WebOS has. I get OTA updates to my WebOS device, and it backs itself up over the ai
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
They're not 'web' apps, they're apps built to a specific platform. Many of those are internal intranet apps, and some are not even networked - they're actual apps that use the IE rendering engine for UI. You may not like that they're not bu
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
I guess you missed the articles here about about Microsoft's massive commitment to backward compatibility and why they do it? From just the other day : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281045 and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
You're comparing Netflix US users against global Bittorrent users. Netflix likely has a large chunk of US users. And likely streams a larger portion of the content in HD.
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
"BitTorrent is available in 52 languages with 'clients checking in from over 220 countries every day.'" Wow, a service available world wide, is twice the size of two that are US-only, one of which is not free. Big surprise.
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
These are 'pretty designs', some even just a one page, above the fold bit. More impressive would be comprehensive site design and UX for a site with a significant amount content, and not just a pretty home page.
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
We have a new 800 pound gorilla intent on screwing us over. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cq?d=v1&s=AAPL,MSFT
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
You might wish to consider that during roughly the same period IE4 came along to destroy Netscape, it was Netscape that was busy inventing proprietary tags - <layer>, <multicol>, <spacer> and the like.
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by ryanwatkins 16y ago
You can buy a non-contract device at a small discount via the developer program. http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/developer-phones.html