tiddchristopher

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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I agree with most of your post. I'm not saying designers should actively hinder accessibility or make users uncomfortable. We should do the opposite. Still, in 2003, ems might have been best practice. In the modern web, ems and pixels are e
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
The thing is, type isn't decorative. It's integral to the presentation of content. [Good] designers know how to make type legible and readable, as well as appealing, to the greatest number of people. I'm not talking about preserving type in
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
In addition to jcampbell1's remarks, which are completely correct, the zooming override issue you mention is, in my experience, nonexistent. I may be wrong, but I have not recently* encountered it on FF, IE, Opera, nor Chrome. Em sizing is
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
But that doesn't "doesn't do anything"--it reloads the page.
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
Credentials don't matter. The idea--or, at least, a very similar one in terms of economic incentives--has been tried, and it resulted in the cobra effect. So it's not entirely out of place to condemn the idea.
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
That sounds like a great option for use within your account. On the other hand, someone could easily want to be referred to as "he" in his UI, but not want to present that to other users.
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
Male, female, other, and leave blank / prefer not to disclose are all the options I would list. It's important to allow women and men who do not want to disclose their gender that option. It's also important to allow people who would like t
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I, a man, would very likely avoid any project using this library. So it's more than "her problem". A name like this is especially degrading to a single group. If I named a library a racial slur, I wouldn't expect people to be happy about it
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
It's a matter of legality in the United States. "Among those criteria are that the internship should be similar to the training given in a vocational school or academic institution, that the intern does not displace regular paid workers and
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I'm also really keen on getting into G+. There are a lot of great things about it, judging from the demo, but it's a shame it's so exclusive right now. I hope it's just a marketing ploy, rather than a technical fear. If the service isn't re
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
There's a form I recall using multiple times that has labels for everything but a single checkbox: the box which, it so happens, defaults to "yes" for the installation of a piece of bloatware. I'm fairly sure it's in the Java installer. The
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
The person you replied to might not be a native English speaker. Demand shares a common ancestry with the verb "to ask" in some languages. Take French's "demander" and you might see why someone could use "demand" in a way that sounds confro
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
Typographic ligatures (character combinations such as ff and fi) are being displayed as gray rectangles in Firefox 4 on Windows 7.
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I would argue arithmetic is founded in logic, not the reverse. It's foolish to believe mathematics are anything more natural than an invention predicated on logical notions.
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
No USA service, either. I would have considered Spotify, but I went with Pandora because of this limitation.
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by tiddchristopher 15y ago
I believe the AP Computer Science AB exam was discontinued after 2009.
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by tiddchristopher 16y ago
I don't trust a designer with a malformed link on his homepage.
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by tiddchristopher 16y ago
When saving and closing an image, only to realize you need need to change something, thus necessitating a second save, which compounds loss. Granted, if you keep a lossless file around to edit, your problem is gone. But does everyone really
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by tiddchristopher 16y ago
I tried pressing Caps Lock and Escape depressed, then I remembered that I have it mapped.
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by tiddchristopher 16y ago
I experience only minimal, practically unnoticeable, slowdown with the stylesheet. (Firefox 4, Beta 12, badged as Iceweasel, on a Debian 64-bit system.)
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by tiddchristopher 16y ago
In my experience, Fireworks is far less useful when it comes to the creation of graphics after the initial wireframing. On the other hand, Photoshop [and GIMP] is completely usable throughout the entire design process. For this reason, many