If you need "pixel-perfect text", you'll probably decide not to go with the built-in glyphs that come with the platform/browser. In other words, make your own glyphs. Either individual letters, or blocks of text.
On the other hand, I think that the whole "images instead of text" has been way overdone. A menu should just be a menu, not an "experience." And those "walls of flash" have GOT to go!!!
A browser is free to render a "12pt" font at any size, or in any fashion. For example, if the browser is accessability-enhanced for the visually impaired, it may scale up a 12pt font by a factor of 3, but only scale up a 24pt font by a factor of 2.5. It may also render the font as audible sounds, using different tonality for emphasized, underlined, etc.
Just as mobile devices will also take liberties with font specs.
Then there's the question of resolution mapping. Try changing your resolution from something crappy (640x480 anyone?) to 1600x1200. Or better yet, pass it through a projector. Your 12pt font can be several inches high when thrown against a wall.
A browser is not constrained by the same limitations as print media. Get over it.
shhh... you can do pixel-precise rendering using absolute positioning and layers in css - it's just that "designers" who can't grasp the concept of fluid content that reflows, and work with it (and the extra freedom of expression it brings), are still thinking in terms of a physical "page".
They still don't "get" that content is king. "If we make a really flashy sight, we'll get lots of users." Yeah, right. Lose the "wall of flash applets". Lose the fixed/pixel-spec'd positioning. Aim for simplicity, functionality and content, not "gee-whiz."
Of course, that would require them to come up with content... that's a lot harder than cut-n-pasting graphics together for a mock-up.
Here's what happened in the last week. I developed the templates using divs and css - they rendered fine on browsers under linux (firefox, opera, konq, seamonkey, epiphany), and when I tested under windows, almost no changes (safari, firefox, opera, IE7, IE8, chrome)... except for IE6, which of course barfed up a hairball.
I don't normally use windows, except on a laptop for compatability testing, so I was surprised at IE7 getting "good enough".
I don't see that browsers have made any wondrous leaps of progress due to competition
Then you haven't compared the piece of shit known as IE6 with IE7 in standards mode. Not perfect, but a LOT better. Heck, IE wasn't supposed to get beyond version 6. And it wasn't supposed to get tabs. Firefox grabbing mindshare forced them to ressurect the IE dev team.
Quite true. But I'm not a designer. I'm a user, and I demand consistency. Standards are great for that, but the fact that they allow latitude in interpretation is idiotic, and harms my experience by making consistency difficult to impossible. So yes, we, the users, are the most important thing, which is why I demand that there be no room for interpretation in the standard.
Then you don't even know what the standards are for.
So, you gonna demand that OSX or KDE or GNOME all render their desktop widgets the same as Windows? Or it wll "harm your experience?" Gee, you must have had a hell of a traumatic time moving from one version of Windows to the next...
The problem isn't that standards-compliant browsers render pages differently - the problem is that pieces of total shit like IE6 are not-standards-compliant.
Yeah, except requiring things to be rendered the same way all the time isn't "harming functionality", it's common sense. In fact, where exactly does one get off saying that you have a "standard" if there's any room for interpretation at all?
It's not common sense. The HTML standard doesn't say, for example, how form controls are supposed to be rendered visually - that's the job for either the browser or the underlying platform.
Ditto with fonts. A 12pt font can be one size on your device/platform, and different on someone else's.
Ditto with web pages themselves - the visual rendering is specified IN THE STANDARDS as being implementation-dependent. For example, a screen reader is free to render web pages as audio instead of glyphs and images.
Read the standards. They're posted at w3c.
Then learn proper design. A good workman doesn't complain about his or her tools.
Too often the wanna-be "designer" comes up with something that not only doesn't even look good, but implementing it is impossible, because the design is full of contradictions.
They also tend to suffer from "widget envy" and featuritis. They'll lay out designs with powerpoint or photoshop, and not realize that there has to be some logical underpinning to the flow from one are to another, one page to another, etc.
Someone should remind them that in good design, form follows function. We don't need more "50s Cadillac fins".
Because it's impossible to design something which looks really good without having control.
That just shows you don't get it. Learn how to design using css and a liquid layout instead of trying to do exact positioning with table hacks. This isn't 1999.
Ok, so, that brings me to a point. Pretty much, if you take away Venus, which, is reasonable, there's really no other comparative earth like planet out there, and with it goes the only real "other" CO2 study that there is.
Why is it reasonable to take away venus. In many respects, it's our twin. You couldn't ask for a much better model - 95% the size of earth, and it's the planet closest to us, half the distance of Mars. What more do you want?
Honestly, someone doing something that galactically stupid should have their account info left there...
How many times have you seen people write a little script to do something, and it includes their password... and they commit it... and then EVERYONE has their password.
People do stupid things all the time. Its a universal constant.
We had an icestorm a decade ago - no power for a month. The room with my Newfie was warmer than any other room, and he certainly kept me warm at night...
The "waste heat" that goes to the ceiling would go to the ceiling anyway, if it were from a baseboard heater. Also, the heat does cause convection currents - as does the heat and air circulation from the main heating system. You won't find as much temperature stratification as you would think at first blush.
electric blankets don't cost much, and are nice and cozy even from the couch.
Big dogs are better. They work even during a power failure.
... but on the "races" bit, yes, for the same offense, blacks more often get jail time while whites walk. Justice might be blind, but it ain't colour-blind when it comes to sentencing.
Did it ever occur to you that there were circumstances, such as prior history, that could affect the sentence? The claim that blacks are being unfairly punished is a totally bogus one.
George W. Bush does coke, gets arrested, gets a new drivers' license number "000000005" to hide the arrest, gets a bunch more DUIs... and hasn't done any jail time yet.
Personalities? What in the hell? Is "dumb" a personality? Read the article, man. People like this deserve to go to prison
... Hans Reiser has internet?
... but on the "races" bit, yes, for the same offense, blacks more often get jail time while whites walk. Justice might be blind, but it ain't colour-blind when it comes to sentencing.
Well, considering the Bay of Pigs, the attempts to assassinate Castro, and all the other plots, maybe it's time for the US to formally renounce such stupid behaviour.
Then again, I don't think pigs are going to fly any time soon, either...
People who leave their cats to roam free are responsible for all those scrawny, disease-ridded kittens you find dead on the sidewalk. Killing the cat may be a harsh lesson, but ultimately, there's less suffering.
I would never dream of letting my dogs roam free... like cats, they could get hit by a car, freeze to death in the winter, mauled by other animals, mistreated by kids with bb guns, etc. Why people think their cats are immune from these problems is beyond me.
Probably, since you'd have a LOT more signal strength to play with.
We can get away with smaller dishes now because satellites transmit a more powerful signal, and our receivers are more sensitive, but a light covering of snow, or a heavy rain, will kill your reception with a smaller dish.
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Mind you, with high gas prices, everyone has a hard-on for a hybrid.
If you need "pixel-perfect text", you'll probably decide not to go with the built-in glyphs that come with the platform/browser. In other words, make your own glyphs. Either individual letters, or blocks of text.
On the other hand, I think that the whole "images instead of text" has been way overdone. A menu should just be a menu, not an "experience." And those "walls of flash" have GOT to go!!!
Why not? Because you don't think it's right? It's damn convenient when you want to change the output device to ... say ... a PRINTER!
Get over it, already. You're just being childish in your belligerence.
Or better yet, if you don't like it, come out with your own implementation and let the market decide.
A browser is free to render a "12pt" font at any size, or in any fashion. For example, if the browser is accessability-enhanced for the visually impaired, it may scale up a 12pt font by a factor of 3, but only scale up a 24pt font by a factor of 2.5. It may also render the font as audible sounds, using different tonality for emphasized, underlined, etc.
Just as mobile devices will also take liberties with font specs.
Then there's the question of resolution mapping. Try changing your resolution from something crappy (640x480 anyone?) to 1600x1200. Or better yet, pass it through a projector. Your 12pt font can be several inches high when thrown against a wall.
A browser is not constrained by the same limitations as print media. Get over it.
shhh ... you can do pixel-precise rendering using absolute positioning and layers in css - it's just that "designers" who can't grasp the concept of fluid content that reflows, and work with it (and the extra freedom of expression it brings), are still thinking in terms of a physical "page".
They still don't "get" that content is king. "If we make a really flashy sight, we'll get lots of users." Yeah, right. Lose the "wall of flash applets". Lose the fixed/pixel-spec'd positioning. Aim for simplicity, functionality and content, not "gee-whiz."
Of course, that would require them to come up with content ... that's a lot harder than cut-n-pasting graphics together for a mock-up.
Here's what happened in the last week. I developed the templates using divs and css - they rendered fine on browsers under linux (firefox, opera, konq, seamonkey, epiphany), and when I tested under windows, almost no changes (safari, firefox, opera, IE7, IE8, chrome) ... except for IE6, which of course barfed up a hairball.
I don't normally use windows, except on a laptop for compatability testing, so I was surprised at IE7 getting "good enough".
Then you haven't compared the piece of shit known as IE6 with IE7 in standards mode. Not perfect, but a LOT better. Heck, IE wasn't supposed to get beyond version 6. And it wasn't supposed to get tabs. Firefox grabbing mindshare forced them to ressurect the IE dev team.
Then you don't even know what the standards are for.
So, you gonna demand that OSX or KDE or GNOME all render their desktop widgets the same as Windows? Or it wll "harm your experience?" Gee, you must have had a hell of a traumatic time moving from one version of Windows to the next ...
The problem isn't that standards-compliant browsers render pages differently - the problem is that pieces of total shit like IE6 are not-standards-compliant.
It's not common sense. The HTML standard doesn't say, for example, how form controls are supposed to be rendered visually - that's the job for either the browser or the underlying platform.
Ditto with fonts. A 12pt font can be one size on your device/platform, and different on someone else's.
Ditto with web pages themselves - the visual rendering is specified IN THE STANDARDS as being implementation-dependent. For example, a screen reader is free to render web pages as audio instead of glyphs and images.
Read the standards. They're posted at w3c.
Then learn proper design. A good workman doesn't complain about his or her tools.
Too often the wanna-be "designer" comes up with something that not only doesn't even look good, but implementing it is impossible, because the design is full of contradictions.
They also tend to suffer from "widget envy" and featuritis. They'll lay out designs with powerpoint or photoshop, and not realize that there has to be some logical underpinning to the flow from one are to another, one page to another, etc.
Someone should remind them that in good design, form follows function. We don't need more "50s Cadillac fins".
That just shows you don't get it. Learn how to design using css and a liquid layout instead of trying to do exact positioning with table hacks. This isn't 1999.
Why is it reasonable to take away venus. In many respects, it's our twin. You couldn't ask for a much better model - 95% the size of earth, and it's the planet closest to us, half the distance of Mars. What more do you want?
So it's going to be like the Earth in 100 years.
How many times have you seen people write a little script to do something, and it includes their password ... and they commit it ... and then EVERYONE has their password.
People do stupid things all the time. Its a universal constant.
We had an ice storm a decade ago - no power for a month. The room with my Newfie was warmer than any other room, and he certainly kept me warm at night ...
This is the same retarded thinking that has been saying keyboards are going to be obsolete for years.
New ways of interacting don't obsolete old ways for every task.
The "waste heat" that goes to the ceiling would go to the ceiling anyway, if it were from a baseboard heater. Also, the heat does cause convection currents - as does the heat and air circulation from the main heating system. You won't find as much temperature stratification as you would think at first blush.
Big dogs are better. They work even during a power failure.
This is slashdot. What is this "drinking to excess" you speak of ...
Poster saith:
TFA saith:
Me: "I live in Canuckistanbul - we NEED the heat, you ignorant clods!"
Electricity costs less than oil or gas here ... it's cheaper to get some extra BTUs from incandescents in the winter months ...
George W. Bush does coke, gets arrested, gets a new drivers' license number "000000005" to hide the arrest, gets a bunch more DUIs ... and hasn't done any jail time yet.
If he were black?
TFA pointed out that the defense could also look around for evidence to discredit witnesses for the prosecution.
Then again, I don't think pigs are going to fly any time soon, either ...
People who leave their cats to roam free are responsible for all those scrawny, disease-ridded kittens you find dead on the sidewalk. Killing the cat may be a harsh lesson, but ultimately, there's less suffering.
I would never dream of letting my dogs roam free ... like cats, they could get hit by a car, freeze to death in the winter, mauled by other animals, mistreated by kids with bb guns, etc. Why people think their cats are immune from these problems is beyond me.
Probably, since you'd have a LOT more signal strength to play with.
We can get away with smaller dishes now because satellites transmit a more powerful signal, and our receivers are more sensitive, but a light covering of snow, or a heavy rain, will kill your reception with a smaller dish.