steveax

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   by steveax 13y ago

   Defining dimensions in inches, cm or points for screen use is a big bag of hurt that should be avoided at all costs.
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   by steveax 13y ago

   As a front end developer, I get most of my assets in PSD format. Although the uptake of mobile browsers (and the corresponding use of media queries) is slowly chipping away at Photoshop as a web design tool, Photoshop files are still the mo
3. 333.▲
   by steveax 13y ago

   Late 20's and you're asking "am I too old"?
4. 334.▲
   by steveax 13y ago

   Plenty of tech hiring going on in stumptown these days. Just one source: http://siliconflorist.com/jobs/
5. 335.▲
   by steveax 13y ago

   Advantage? Tell that to screenreader users.
6. 336.▲
   by steveax 13y ago

   You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
7. 337.▲
   by steveax 13y ago

   User agent sniffing is unreliable and evil.
8. 338.▲
   by steveax 13y ago

   Sure, but if the fonts are licensed for being downloaded from your website (which isn't the case with typekit) it should not matter. I think the crux of the biscuit here is does the license allow you to host and serve the fonts, or mus
9. 339.▲
   by steveax 13y ago

   If the license supports website usage, I can't see that it would matter which mechanism you used to deliver the font to the browser.
10. 340.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    I recently mulled this over on a project. If you have to support multiple font formats to support a variety of browsers, I think the http request latency is less of a factor than forcing all browsers to download all formats even if they won
11. 341.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    Naw, it sucks up here in stumptown. Rains all the time. Can't find a decent pint of beer or cup of coffee to save your life. Place is full of hipsters -- have you seen Portlandia? You wouldn't like it. Best stay away.
12. 342.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    I'm just glad they kept table.table and label.label The department of redundancy department can sleep peacefully tonight.
13. 343.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    What you want to make (modern) screen readers not try and parse the table semantics is to set the role to presentation: <table role="presentation">
14. 344.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    We sorta had that already. It was called Flash (or Silverlight, etc. pick your poison) and while it was easier for authors to do many things, it sucked for users in more ways than I can count.
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    by steveax 13y ago

    You're comparing a layout engine for print where the creator has control over all aspects of the presentation (font size, page size, etc.) with CSS where the content is displayed in an environment where the user is in control of many o
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Centering content of unknown dimensions (and since the user is ultimately in control of font size this happens often) vertically is surpringly difficult to do if you want to support legacy browsers. It's a common pain point. There are
17. 347.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    I'm surprised that nobody (not even the article) has mentioned the militarization of police as a symbiotic factor. Surely the desire for SWAT units (and all the fancy toys that go along with them) fuels this practice -- and in return,
18. 348.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    Not to mention when the fall knocks you out, you won't drown on concrete, unlike landing in the water.
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Indeed, I hate, hate onswipe "enhanced" sites. Bad enough you have to wait for the redirect and then all the assets to load (they are always slow) but then there are even more annoyances. There is no way to retain a preference for the regul
20. 350.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    Really? How much do you think the US spends on its military presence in oil producing regions? Made up? I think not.
21. 351.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    300-400 miles in an urban environment? Surely that's 8 hours of driving right there - how does he find any time to work?
22. 352.▲
    by steveax 13y ago

    Adobe used to allow upgrades fron any version to the latest for the same upgrade price. That changed somewhere around the time of CS1 to only allow upgrades from 2 versions back, then down to 1. As a longtime Illustrator (v88) and Photoshop
23. 353.▲
    by steveax 14y ago

    "Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris." -- Larry Wall
24. 354.▲
    by steveax 14y ago

    And what a classic passive-evasive BS way of saying it. "Mistakes were made."
25. 355.▲
    by steveax 14y ago

    Congrats to Jeremy and all the contributors. Thanks for all the hard work and diligent attention to details!
26. 356.▲
    by steveax 14y ago

    Points are mostly in the CSS spec for print media rather than screen. Use proportional units (em, keyword, percentage) or px for screen.
27. 357.▲
    by steveax 14y ago

    Nope, it's way more complicated than that. Device pixels, CSS pixels, a pixel is not a pixel. PPK on the subject: http://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/sessions/a-pixel-is-not-a-p... Points are a terrible unit for specifying font sizes for the
28. 358.▲
    by steveax 14y ago

    Check out Path Finder from Cocoatech.
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    by steveax 14y ago

    Yeah, the first point is silly. It's trivial to run minified CSS through a prettifier. As for workflow, pretty much all the CSS meta languages have some sort of auto compiling upon modification and you can skip the alt-tab (assuming you've
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    by steveax 14y ago

    window.navigator is useless as screen readers run on top of the browser. If you know that little about screen readers you probably shouldn't be opining on a11y issues.