The press-and-hold gesture temporarily puts up a rotating circle of dots to show you that it's thinking about it, then gives you an "I-beam" insertion point that you can drag to select text for Copy and Paste. Takes some getting used to. It's slower, which is worse, but haven't decided yet whether it's better or worse as a UI.
Large icons/buttons gobble up screen space, leaving less space to view the page. Haven't figured out how to turn them off or at least shrink them. Definitely worse, because you feel you have a cramped "peephole vision" view of the page.
The settings allow you to select HTTP or Socket as the protocol. Since HTTP is layered on top of a TCP socket, that makes no sense. I'm guessing it's poor English for "go directly to the site you requested" (HTTP) and "go through our compression server" (Socket). But I wouldn't know how to confirm this guess.
Didn't seem as peppy as the YouTube preview video. Hoping that the next upgrade will fill the iPad's screen without having to use "2x", for less cramped view of page. Haven't tested Web Forms 2.0 yet, because my extensive WF2 test page is on a server behind my workplace's firewall.
Overall, it's usable, but I agree that it's not very good (yet). Still hopeful that it will get better and cattleprod Mobile Safari improvements when it gets genuinely competitive.
The Firebug Lite for Safari at getfirebug.com is for Safari for PC/Mac, not multi-touch Safari.
To get anything into an iPad, you need it to be in the App store. Even then, I can't see how it would be able to install itself into the iPad's Safari. I'm pretty sure that Apple would set the Unix file permissions to prohibit 3rd party modifications to Apple apps.
On all of my sites, I load jQuery into every page. In many ways, that's much better than having Firebug Lite. If you know how to create DOM elements with JavaScript, you can create a script element that points to jQuery and put the code to do that into a "bookmarklet". Then on any page you need to do a lot, you can just invoke the bookmarklet from Bookmarks. (Google the word bookmarklet if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
I agree. They teach HTML in elementary school now. As for technical users on iPad, if you go to Settings app > Safari > Developer, you can turn on Debug Console. To my way of thinking, that's a LOT more technical than View Source.
Also, for having the nickname "Webz", you would think the previous poster would have a lot more sympathy for Web Developers trying to get their code working in all browsers. View Source is an important tool for that. Sometimes you want to see how someone else did something that worked correctly. Given that server processes sometimes adapt the page they send you based on the HTTP_USER_AGENT string, you might not get to see the source you need to see in any other browser besides multi-touch Safari. But of course you can't see the source in multi-touch Safari either. That's the problem.
It's still a good idea. With bookmarks you can't "open in new window". With a jump page, you can right-click on a hotlink and select "open in new window" from the context menu. (The multi-touch equivalent of right-click is press and hold. That works in multi-touch Safari.) Open in new window is easier to use than the Safari for Mac/PC's "snapback" feature (which doesn't exist in multi-touch Safari). Just close the new window to return to the page you were at.
Also, with a TON of bookmarks accumulated since the early '90s, it's easier to find the one you want on a jump page.
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I got an iPad 64GB and am using Safari a lot more. It's showing up multi-touch Safari's deficiencies.
In all other browsers, you can open a file on the device's file system. It's called the file protocol because the URL begins "file:". This allows offline prototyping of websites. I use it to define a "jump page" that's crammed full of all the hotlinks I normally use, organized to find them easily. Since we don't have the file protocol in multi-touch Safari, I have to put my jump page out to the actual Internet via iWeb and access it as an unpublished URL. In a sense, that makes sense, because I would only be able to use it if I were connected to the Internet, but it's not as private as keeping it on your own hard drive.
Also no View Source.
Also no default home page (short of saving the URL as an icon in the iPad's home).
Also no back arrow history (have to go back only one page at a time).
Also no Firefox allowed in the App store, which is what would REALLY force multi-touch Safari to get more usable.
The amount of water affected by the wave is the same, and steadily diminishes over time. But over the open ocean, that effect is spread out horizontally (amount calculated by the inverse square law) and also vertically, from sea level to ocean floor. This vertical spread results in a wave that isn't very high at all and often passes unnoticed by ships at sea. Then, when the wave reaches the continental shelf, it cannot be spread out so far vertically. (Same amount of water affected by the event that caused the wave, or less, due to entropy, but less vertical room.) Having nowhere else to go but up, it rises up. So it doesn't actually grow in strength. Rather, it just gets taller in shallow water.
To detect a 1-meter rise in sea level by the timing of its laser light reflection would require detecting a 1/1,500,000 second difference in the round trip. That's 1/3,000,000 second sooner contact with the water on the down beam, plus 1/3,000,000 second sooner arrival by the reflection. That's a pretty small difference compared to the roughly 1/3 of a second it takes light to make that same round trip normally from geosynchronous orbit. Even if you can do it accurately enough, you would detect only position, not direction. (On the macroscopic level, that sort of Heisenberg-like uncertainty is very dissatisfying.)
That's why they use buoys instead. Not only is the change in sea level detected more accurately in the sea, where it happens, you can have lots of them, because they don't have to be launched into geosynchronous orbit. With lots of them, you can both detect position and infer direction.
To the original poster: It wasn't a bad idea, per se. It's good that you're thinking outside the box like that. It was just pretty impractical when you get down to the details.
Quick, what's the constitutional problem with the government forcing an individual to provide evidence that could be used to convict that same individual of a crime?
By far the most useful feature for web developers. Data validation with JavaScript off via new input types, available now in Opera. So sad they didn't mention that in the article.
I work at a government site. Sometimes, when I'm researching a JavaScript problem, or CSS problem, or browser bug, or some other problem, I get blocked by the fact that someone's tech blog is on a "social network or personal site". Fortunately, the same blocking software lets me proceed by certifying that the access is work-related. The military should have that same freedom for unclassified work.
Yes, when you buy another company, you buy its liabilities along with its assets. If Vivendi had an agreement that it must honor, Activision also bought the liability of being bound by that same agreement.
Tort lawyers prefer to get paid a cut of the judgment, so it doesn't matter how much money the fan-developers have.
NSA has VileFault (spoonerism, not typo) for brute force dictionary attacks on weak passwords. I don't think NSA would take that route if Apple gave them a back door.
You know the song "I wonder, wonder who, who wrote the book of love?" Well, it was Ovid. He wrote Ars Amatoria (2 books) and Remedia Amoris (1 book). The first book was on how to get a girl. The second was on how to keep her. And the third was on how to get over it when it's over.
From the second book, there are 2 days a year you avoid like the plague (unless you're rich and can afford not to): Cupid's Day (later renamed by the Catholic Church as St. Valentine's Day) and her birthday. On both days you'll be expected to give gifts. So, if you can't afford that, Ovid's advice was to break up with her before the day arrives and get back together again with her afterwards.
So I guess you could say, given the fact that there are guys who think that way, simply not breaking up with your girlfriend/wife, despite the 2000 years of expectations she's layering on top of your relationship, is pretty romantic in itself. But don't try to convince her of that. She'll probably want to be pampered in some way anyway.
Knowing this DOES give you a conversational edge, however, on the cynical morons who think that Valentines Day was invented by Hallmark. And ladies, if you you're reading this and are pissed that this advice was EVER given, you might take comfort in having this retort handy: A while later, Augustus Caesar exiled Ovid from Rome for the rest of his life. In Ovid's own words, the reason was carmen et error. The carmen is widely believed to be these 3 books, which ticked off the aristocracy no end.
Apple already uses the "fish eye effect" to magnify icons in the Macintosh dock as you mouse over them. I expect that they'll use eye tracking to magnify whatever you're looking at. (That should greatly please they guy who said "Two words: Bikini Team.", immediately above.)
In fact, I'll go so far as to predict that they'll add it to the Universal Access system preference (assistive technologies for the impaired) as an alternative under the Zoom feature. That way, you can turn it on and off with a keystroke, for when you want the visual representation not to be distorted (drawing, for example). Or there may be a keystroke to switch between eye-centered zoom (fish eye) to the current mouse-based zooming of everything with truncation (flat). That way, a visually-impaired person who needs zooming on all the time would be able to switch easily between fish eye (to see where they are in the window better) and flat (to draw better).
Also, I expect 3rd party game developers will use it for heads-up displays in first person shooters. That might mean extending extending the graphics port metaphor to include two focal points, one for the mouse cursor and one for the visual focus. (I'm assuming that game developers would want the guns to fire where the mouse cursor resides.) Once that paradigm has shifted, there'll be demand for two mouse cursors to allow gamers to carry two gun-like game controllers and fire them independently at different targets.
So no, I don't think that visual tracking is "not Apple-like" at all. It's the sort of cool stuff we've come to expect of them, actually.
In the 1960s, police tapped a pay phone in New York City because a suspect was apparently using it for criminal activity. At trial, the prosecution argued that he was in public, so therefore constitutional privacy protections didn't apply, and they didn't need a warrant for the wiretap. But the wiretap evidence was thrown out by the US Supreme Court, on the grounds that, although he was in public, he had a reasonable expectation that the conversation was private. In other words, the criterion of "reasonable expectation of privacy" was used by the court to extend privacy protections into the public realm, not to contract them.
This was apparently treated by the Executive Branch as a loophole, that if they could give the public no expectation of privacy whatsoever, they could wiretap without warrant at will.
ColdFusion is as easy to learn as HTML, which is really saying something.
I'd say the only problems that the original poster would have would be (1) to have enough memory on the younger brother's machine to run a webserver, a J2EE server (JRun) and ColdFusion Server, and (2) making sure to run them behind a broadband router / firewall. Lotsa webserver-attacking malware out there.
The only cheaper, easier suggestion would be JavaScript, which I already advocated above. But yes indeed, ColdFusion is a great starting language that keeps getting better the more you learn it (just like JavaScript).
JavaScript never stops being fun. And you can actually impress girls with cool stuff you can do with JavaScript on a Web page. Not many computer languages can impress girls.
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The press-and-hold gesture temporarily puts up a rotating circle of dots to show you that it's thinking about it, then gives you an "I-beam" insertion point that you can drag to select text for Copy and Paste. Takes some getting used to. It's slower, which is worse, but haven't decided yet whether it's better or worse as a UI.
Large icons/buttons gobble up screen space, leaving less space to view the page. Haven't figured out how to turn them off or at least shrink them. Definitely worse, because you feel you have a cramped "peephole vision" view of the page.
The settings allow you to select HTTP or Socket as the protocol. Since HTTP is layered on top of a TCP socket, that makes no sense. I'm guessing it's poor English for "go directly to the site you requested" (HTTP) and "go through our compression server" (Socket). But I wouldn't know how to confirm this guess.
Didn't seem as peppy as the YouTube preview video. Hoping that the next upgrade will fill the iPad's screen without having to use "2x", for less cramped view of page. Haven't tested Web Forms 2.0 yet, because my extensive WF2 test page is on a server behind my workplace's firewall.
Overall, it's usable, but I agree that it's not very good (yet). Still hopeful that it will get better and cattleprod Mobile Safari improvements when it gets genuinely competitive.
The Firebug Lite for Safari at getfirebug.com is for Safari for PC/Mac, not multi-touch Safari.
To get anything into an iPad, you need it to be in the App store. Even then, I can't see how it would be able to install itself into the iPad's Safari. I'm pretty sure that Apple would set the Unix file permissions to prohibit 3rd party modifications to Apple apps.
On all of my sites, I load jQuery into every page. In many ways, that's much better than having Firebug Lite. If you know how to create DOM elements with JavaScript, you can create a script element that points to jQuery and put the code to do that into a "bookmarklet". Then on any page you need to do a lot, you can just invoke the bookmarklet from Bookmarks. (Google the word bookmarklet if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
I agree. They teach HTML in elementary school now. As for technical users on iPad, if you go to Settings app > Safari > Developer, you can turn on Debug Console. To my way of thinking, that's a LOT more technical than View Source.
Also, for having the nickname "Webz", you would think the previous poster would have a lot more sympathy for Web Developers trying to get their code working in all browsers. View Source is an important tool for that. Sometimes you want to see how someone else did something that worked correctly. Given that server processes sometimes adapt the page they send you based on the HTTP_USER_AGENT string, you might not get to see the source you need to see in any other browser besides multi-touch Safari. But of course you can't see the source in multi-touch Safari either. That's the problem.
It's still a good idea. With bookmarks you can't "open in new window". With a jump page, you can right-click on a hotlink and select "open in new window" from the context menu. (The multi-touch equivalent of right-click is press and hold. That works in multi-touch Safari.) Open in new window is easier to use than the Safari for Mac/PC's "snapback" feature (which doesn't exist in multi-touch Safari). Just close the new window to return to the page you were at.
Also, with a TON of bookmarks accumulated since the early '90s, it's easier to find the one you want on a jump page.
I got an iPad 64GB and am using Safari a lot more. It's showing up multi-touch Safari's deficiencies.
In all other browsers, you can open a file on the device's file system. It's called the file protocol because the URL begins "file:". This allows offline prototyping of websites. I use it to define a "jump page" that's crammed full of all the hotlinks I normally use, organized to find them easily. Since we don't have the file protocol in multi-touch Safari, I have to put my jump page out to the actual Internet via iWeb and access it as an unpublished URL. In a sense, that makes sense, because I would only be able to use it if I were connected to the Internet, but it's not as private as keeping it on your own hard drive.
Also no View Source.
Also no default home page (short of saving the URL as an icon in the iPad's home).
Also no back arrow history (have to go back only one page at a time).
Also no Firefox allowed in the App store, which is what would REALLY force multi-touch Safari to get more usable.
The amount of water affected by the wave is the same, and steadily diminishes over time. But over the open ocean, that effect is spread out horizontally (amount calculated by the inverse square law) and also vertically, from sea level to ocean floor. This vertical spread results in a wave that isn't very high at all and often passes unnoticed by ships at sea. Then, when the wave reaches the continental shelf, it cannot be spread out so far vertically. (Same amount of water affected by the event that caused the wave, or less, due to entropy, but less vertical room.) Having nowhere else to go but up, it rises up. So it doesn't actually grow in strength. Rather, it just gets taller in shallow water.
To detect a 1-meter rise in sea level by the timing of its laser light reflection would require detecting a 1/1,500,000 second difference in the round trip. That's 1/3,000,000 second sooner contact with the water on the down beam, plus 1/3,000,000 second sooner arrival by the reflection. That's a pretty small difference compared to the roughly 1/3 of a second it takes light to make that same round trip normally from geosynchronous orbit. Even if you can do it accurately enough, you would detect only position, not direction. (On the macroscopic level, that sort of Heisenberg-like uncertainty is very dissatisfying.)
That's why they use buoys instead. Not only is the change in sea level detected more accurately in the sea, where it happens, you can have lots of them, because they don't have to be launched into geosynchronous orbit. With lots of them, you can both detect position and infer direction.
To the original poster: It wasn't a bad idea, per se. It's good that you're thinking outside the box like that. It was just pretty impractical when you get down to the details.
Quick, what's the constitutional problem with the government forcing an individual to provide evidence that could be used to convict that same individual of a crime?
By far the most useful feature for web developers. Data validation with JavaScript off via new input types, available now in Opera. So sad they didn't mention that in the article.
I work at a government site. Sometimes, when I'm researching a JavaScript problem, or CSS problem, or browser bug, or some other problem, I get blocked by the fact that someone's tech blog is on a "social network or personal site". Fortunately, the same blocking software lets me proceed by certifying that the access is work-related. The military should have that same freedom for unclassified work.
Yes, when you buy another company, you buy its liabilities along with its assets. If Vivendi had an agreement that it must honor, Activision also bought the liability of being bound by that same agreement.
Tort lawyers prefer to get paid a cut of the judgment, so it doesn't matter how much money the fan-developers have.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/02/24/apple_creates_explicit_category_for_app_store_software.html
A merchant app that sold bikinis was dropped too, for showing girls in bikinis. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/02/23/swimwear_seller_hit_by_apples_removal_of_sexual_apps.html
Just turn it on and forget about it.
NSA has VileFault (spoonerism, not typo) for brute force dictionary attacks on weak passwords. I don't think NSA would take that route if Apple gave them a back door.
In fact, it could even be more likely to kill you.
See my post, apparently composed simultaneously with your own, a few posts down, entitled "Ovid's Advice".
Now you know the origin.
You know the song "I wonder, wonder who, who wrote the book of love?" Well, it was Ovid. He wrote Ars Amatoria (2 books) and Remedia Amoris (1 book). The first book was on how to get a girl. The second was on how to keep her. And the third was on how to get over it when it's over.
From the second book, there are 2 days a year you avoid like the plague (unless you're rich and can afford not to): Cupid's Day (later renamed by the Catholic Church as St. Valentine's Day) and her birthday. On both days you'll be expected to give gifts. So, if you can't afford that, Ovid's advice was to break up with her before the day arrives and get back together again with her afterwards.
So I guess you could say, given the fact that there are guys who think that way, simply not breaking up with your girlfriend/wife, despite the 2000 years of expectations she's layering on top of your relationship, is pretty romantic in itself. But don't try to convince her of that. She'll probably want to be pampered in some way anyway.
Knowing this DOES give you a conversational edge, however, on the cynical morons who think that Valentines Day was invented by Hallmark. And ladies, if you you're reading this and are pissed that this advice was EVER given, you might take comfort in having this retort handy: A while later, Augustus Caesar exiled Ovid from Rome for the rest of his life. In Ovid's own words, the reason was carmen et error. The carmen is widely believed to be these 3 books, which ticked off the aristocracy no end.
Ovid
The banking community still spells it guaranty. As with any jargon, it's a way to recognize novices. If you don't care to know that, no problem.
In this context, the spellings are: guaranty, guaranties, guarantied.
Apple already uses the "fish eye effect" to magnify icons in the Macintosh dock as you mouse over them. I expect that they'll use eye tracking to magnify whatever you're looking at. (That should greatly please they guy who said "Two words: Bikini Team.", immediately above.)
In fact, I'll go so far as to predict that they'll add it to the Universal Access system preference (assistive technologies for the impaired) as an alternative under the Zoom feature. That way, you can turn it on and off with a keystroke, for when you want the visual representation not to be distorted (drawing, for example). Or there may be a keystroke to switch between eye-centered zoom (fish eye) to the current mouse-based zooming of everything with truncation (flat). That way, a visually-impaired person who needs zooming on all the time would be able to switch easily between fish eye (to see where they are in the window better) and flat (to draw better).
Also, I expect 3rd party game developers will use it for heads-up displays in first person shooters. That might mean extending extending the graphics port metaphor to include two focal points, one for the mouse cursor and one for the visual focus. (I'm assuming that game developers would want the guns to fire where the mouse cursor resides.) Once that paradigm has shifted, there'll be demand for two mouse cursors to allow gamers to carry two gun-like game controllers and fire them independently at different targets.
So no, I don't think that visual tracking is "not Apple-like" at all. It's the sort of cool stuff we've come to expect of them, actually.
In the 1960s, police tapped a pay phone in New York City because a suspect was apparently using it for criminal activity. At trial, the prosecution argued that he was in public, so therefore constitutional privacy protections didn't apply, and they didn't need a warrant for the wiretap. But the wiretap evidence was thrown out by the US Supreme Court, on the grounds that, although he was in public, he had a reasonable expectation that the conversation was private. In other words, the criterion of "reasonable expectation of privacy" was used by the court to extend privacy protections into the public realm, not to contract them.
This was apparently treated by the Executive Branch as a loophole, that if they could give the public no expectation of privacy whatsoever, they could wiretap without warrant at will.
Just a little history...
... We'll run out. People won't be able to get new IP addresses. Entrepreneurs will see a market to sell IPv6 addresses. We'll have IPv6 addresses.
Some entrepreneurs will start earlier than others, and they'll have an edge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
ColdFusion is as easy to learn as HTML, which is really saying something.
I'd say the only problems that the original poster would have would be (1) to have enough memory on the younger brother's machine to run a webserver, a J2EE server (JRun) and ColdFusion Server, and (2) making sure to run them behind a broadband router / firewall. Lotsa webserver-attacking malware out there.
The only cheaper, easier suggestion would be JavaScript, which I already advocated above. But yes indeed, ColdFusion is a great starting language that keeps getting better the more you learn it (just like JavaScript).
JavaScript never stops being fun. And you can actually impress girls with cool stuff you can do with JavaScript on a Web page. Not many computer languages can impress girls.
That's how to get noticed.