karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Announcing Backlift: Deployment and Hosting for Backbone.js
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karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: The Android Font: Roboto
Typographica featured a more educated slashing blogpost about Roboto: http://typographica.org/on-typography/roboto-typeface-is-a-f...
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition (full draft)
Yes it's definitely great! Was able to build my first rails-based administration crud app in two weeks, with tests, by following this book!
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Introducing Chrome for Android
"Swipe from the edge to switch tab" is beautiful :)
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Introducing Chrome for Android
Without testing, this particular issue looks like it could be handled with the viewport-tag and -webkit-text-size-adjust
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Tim O'Reilly: Really, Google is evil now? Let's Get Real. How About Apple?
While you're definitely right that the other manufacturers are playing the same game, i think it makes perfect sense to focus on The Most Successful Company of Our Time, just like the adbusters/anti-sweatshop movement did with Nike in the nineties.
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Html5please
It's actually there on for example box-shadow, one of the worse offenders
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Advanced emacs user: Mary Rose Cook Setup
Looking forward to read your 'Super 4dv4nc3d 1337 Emacs User' article. I bet it doesn't have half the insight from this one.
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Automated UI Testing for Web and Native Apps on iOS and Android
You can use Apples own UIAutomation tests for that: http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1646-how-to-use-uiautomatio...
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Face detection jQuery Plugin
jQuery is used for:
1. Finding the picture in the DOM.
2. Drawing the rectangles on the faces.
The algorithm in itself is written in a lovely language called JavaScript.
While I appreciate the attention the author brings to liu liu's code, the jquery plugin packaging doesn't add much value.
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: HTML5 2D gaming performance analysis: Canvas 2D vs. WebGL vs. C++
This is what i was told by apple engineers when asking straight out.
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Buy, sell, donate and transact on Twitter
1-click-payment for anything...
Could be a square card-case competitor. Image a café that has tweeted the menu. You go in, reply to what you want, you get it. Could be huge on mobile payments.
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: The Pure CSS3 Content Slider
Harry Roberts (@csswizard) did something similar, but fluid width a while ago
http://csswizardry.com/2011/10/fully-fluid-responsive-css-ca...
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source
There are thousands of reasons to love or hate android. One thing i like is the development going on in Cyanogenmod and MIUI Android. It's relevant to me.
Those things wont help android 'win' against the iphone, but it will be relevant in other markets, like the MIUI phone, wasnt that around 200$?
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Daring Fireball: Robotica
One thing that is completely missed by the "letter-by-letter" comparison is that Roboto by default has much looser kerning ("letter-spacing") than Helvetica. This should make some difference when screen reading. IIRC iOS, even version 5, doesn't support kerning in UIKit. Does anyone know if Android does?
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Impressive html5/css3 clock; no Flash.
Paul Irish blogged about it a while ago http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: A drag drop webpage builder in 10k HTML/JS/CSS
Love the snapiness and complete lack of fancy animations!
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: German data protection authority puts fine on FB like button integration
This is a local politician, Thilo Weichert, trying to make a name for himself. I think everyone in germany except him are wondering what he is doing.
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: HTML5 Boilerplate v2.0 released
Initializr is a little more bare-bones, you can create your own package and customize it a little on their site already. It's based on the HTML5 Boilerplate but haven't got as much stuff in there. I use it all the time. http://www.initializr.com/
karl_nerd | 14 years ago | on: 535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript
ok found this good old one http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129745
Shouldnt you be able to create your own index.html and then be fine as long as you dont hit Backbone.sync ?