superdavid | 15 years ago | on: What version of IE is this?
IE8 on Windows 7. The shape and colouring of the tabs gives it away.
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superdavid | 15 years ago | on: SMS from any browser, fully sync'd with your Android phone
Worked for me, but too buggy to be considered more convenient than using the phone itself.
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: Don’t rewrite Your Application
That too, but more specifically: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
In that article, he talks about Netscape's biggest mistake being the decision to rebuild from scratch for version 5 (which went on to become the Mozilla suite).
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: Don’t rewrite Your Application
Very reminiscent of a Joel on Software article
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: How to react to changing screen sizes
I've always used Chrome because it has the least browser chrome when maximised: tabs, address line with 4 icons, no status or frame or anything else.
If IE9 is refined to the point where it only has tabs, address bar and a few icons all in one row, it could be a winner from an interface perspective.
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Startup stopped paying my salary
It's worth noting that if you do resort to pushing the company into bankruptcy, at best you'll get nothing, and at worst you'll make things even more difficult for the founders than they already are.
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: Web apps web apps web apps every body doing web apps whats about real apps
They're still there, but not a very hot topic.
For new concepts, the web is a much more attractive platform - quicker development, fewer (but not no) compatibility issues between platforms, etc.
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: IPhone/mobile web app development: stand-alone or complementary?
A trimmed-down mobile app usually means that the desktop app is unnecessarily bloated - the "get to the right information quickly" goal is just as appropriate on the desktop as on a mobile.
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: United States to legislate on web accessibility directly
Even where other jurisdictions have made laws, often very little has been done.
For instance the European Union was due to be fully compliant by 2010, but not a single government is likely to make the deadline: http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=441
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: Going mobile: mobile website or app?
The equivalent of an app store fee is a pay-wall to the application. It would probably drive away more customers than the equivalent app store fee, but I don't think it is defeating the point at all.
Offline access is a problem.
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: Going mobile: mobile website or app?
Are there likely to be the same lowest-common-denominator problems as you get with cross-platform development of console games, or those seen with Java apps like OpenOffice.org?
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How will it impact my webapp if it is written in Python instead of PHP.
Use what you're good at. If you're good at neither, it's time to find another day job.
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: Microsoft pulls the plug on Kin
It is a very strange middle child between WinMo 6.5 and Windows Phone 7. Who knows who thought it would've been a good idea...
superdavid | 15 years ago | on: Misguided web accessibility: access keys
Most companies that try to do something about accessibility seem eager just to find a checklist they can go through. If access keys somehow turned up there, then they go into the website!
superdavid | 16 years ago | on: Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition?
So many "new interface" ideas seem to forget that a large percentage of what people use computers for is in offices, producing documentation. Using your voice, or spinning 3D interfaces around with your hands, just isn't practical in an office environment with dozens of people working, where you are essentially outputting text.
Until that basic reality changes, I don't think mainstream computing needs will change. Along the same lines, I don't think the reverse is feasible, with computing interface changes bringing about social changes. The shifts we've seen from hand-writing to type-writing to computer-based word-processing has been happening in roughly the same environment for a very long time.
superdavid | 16 years ago | on: Make Google Chrome accessible - info & petition
I think the idea that users that need/advocate these features can contribute fixes to an open source project is one of the unfortunate myths (for want of a better word) of the FOSS movement. The idea is noble, but, as with Mozilla, the items that project sponsors want fixed/sorted get fixed/sorted, while other "unsexy" features/bugs/components just get left behind for years.
superdavid | 16 years ago | on: Make Google Chrome accessible - info & petition
Despite all the flack that Microsoft gets, its browser is far and away the strongest for accessibility, with Mozilla a close second. Sadly Opera, Apple and Google almost need not bother...
superdavid | 16 years ago | on: Increasing readability, and accessibility, one definition at a time
Very few sites actually make use of <abbr> and <acronym> tags, when they would be handy for people without any disabilities, much of time.
superdavid | 16 years ago | on: Australian Government embracing social media/Twitter. Should govts do more?
We can only assume their own tweets won't be blocked by any content filter...
superdavid | 16 years ago | on: Google to hand over intercepted data to European regulators
It's amazing that only in 2010 are we reaching the point where the vast amounts of information that are inherently made public (like SSIDs) are actually sensitive information.
Long gone are the days when public policy could be dictated by what people specifically made public or private by opting to publish it (in a newspaper, for example) or not.
As a society, I don't think we quite know how to handle this. Technically, this information is public by definition, but having it used like this by a corporation just doesn't "feel right" to most people.
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