A large portion of the content served on the web is pixel based, as in images. So if you work with images you have think about where to set the minimum and maximum limits. And the rest of the design has to follow.
Why on earth should I be a troll? I just try to point out the difference between a designers/editor point of view and a programmers: it is not as easy as creating another routine in a script.
Part of creating a website is drawing an area on my screen and start working within it. The other part is asking what should be done with the site. For a smaller screen both are different: smaller area, other purpose.
I have a 17" imac, so my screen size is different, too. A site for 800*600 screen works as well here, when you do it right.
By the way, can you please explain why so many "web designers" like to use javascript for _links_, when they could just use normal HTML links?
I don't want to use JavaScript because you can not trusts it to do what you want because of platform/browser issues, so the use of JavaScript for links puzzles me as well:-) But heck, I even like to use tables instead of div, just because I try to minimize the risk.
In a nutshell that is the difference between designing and programming. I could program a site that does that, but as a designer I am an arrogant SOB and I want the visitor to see the site the way I intended it to. And you know what: I agree with myself:-)
Scalable design is very hard, and not rewarding because the sacrifices you have to make are to big: both sites will probably look like crap. I would end up designing two sites - and looking at things like usability and purpose of the site that would probably be the best solution: A small pen-based device needs another interface and serves another purpose because people are looking at different things (being on the road or just want to surf when nothing to do).
So, from a programmer perspective you can program the shit out of it to make it happen, but as a designer/editor I'm not interested in such a solution because it is not worth it. Two sites should be the answer.
From a designer point of view this is a very strange remark: I design my sites to have a certain width. I should be aiming for a 800*600 screen since there is still a high percentage out there that uses that size (not just old computers but far-sighted people like their screens at that size for instance), but sometimes I think forget it, I am doing a 1024*768 now (which results in a 900*500 or 950*550 page size).
Try reading that on a palm.
I used to have a Newton, so sometimes I think about how it would look on a smaller screen, but for me this is not doable. We will have to wait for those e-paper devices with big enough screens. Or maybe glasses that can be connected to our ipod/psp/xbox/smartphone/videocamera combinations with a terabyte storage you can use to boot any terminal with your own os.
(Those devices will come off course, and we will look back in awe at those bulky grey machines we used to call 'computers')
I heard people in former East Germany are mad as hell about all the benefits being torn down one by one. I'm living in the Netherlands and it is going downhill here - partly thanks to the European free market liberal ideology.
I'm disagreeing with that, too. I have a serious bowel-illness that has no cure and only people living in the more civilised and hygienic countries get it. One of the cures that is experimented with is bringing in parasites that could be missing from our gut since it was killed of by modern hygienic standards.
I once heard a story about Pratchett trying to make a move scenario from one of the Death-books, and that he was told by some executive that it was very nice, but couldn't he get rid of that 'death-character', he was afraid the audience would not appreciate it (translation: he thought his money would be at risk because it was not a standard story).
Anyway, don't know if it was true or not, but always tell it to people as an illustration of why quality always/mostly suffers when money is an issue.
I think that that was exactly my point. In the quote I gave the writer of the article asumes that there are fewer mac viruses because there are fewer mac users out there. And AFAIK there are no mac viruses, so there must be another reason.
It is the writer of TFA who is bad at math (worse than I am anyway)
One reason why there aren't many malicious Mac programs is that there are fewer Mac users out there, but the fact that some have been written shows that they are possible in principle.
5% mac users equals 5% of the virusses and other malware, wich should be equal to tens of thousands. Well, anyone knows how many there are out there? I haven't seen anything since os8, and trust me, I am neither safe, nor do I stay away from those funny sites or those servers with funny programs.
Firefox mac did not do the trick but safari did: after accepting the applet it jumped to a full screen streaming viewing of the movie 1440x900 pixels, no lag or anything annd good quality too. So no, there is no reason to download and pray vlc will be able to digest it.
If I remember correctly: everybody who joined the army was in the end rewarded with a piece of land and everybody who owned a piece of land was given rights to vote (together with a lot of other rights).
Maybe it can be compared to a pass the bottle game: in part we learned again about sex from the 1001 nights - the uncensored edition - and now the arabs have to learn about sex again through commercials and late night MTV?
eh... what about all those requests not to have sex on the church altars during carnivale? It was not until Victorian times that sex in all its forms and all references to it were banned from public life.
Not that I do not agree with your point but the comparission goes on a limp.
In holland small plants are cloned and sold. As are the seeds. These are all plants garanteed to give good quality and the clones are all female.
Since not everyone has a garden and the quality of plants grown in the garden is not that good, people have special home grow units designed to yield several crops a year (about 3 or 4) by manipulating light conditions.
And it does not stop there. Think fertilizers, lamps, gasses, filters to get rid of the smell, etc. It is a nice little business here.
So yes, people make money of it and if it would be legalized it would be an even bigger business.
In a world where 50% of the english speaking/writing community is not a native speaker, I think not only what is right in conversational English is the norm.
Stuff like this keeps coming up. Seems to be part of the Apple rumour cycle. Can we trust the source???
Using the G5 is par to of the advantage in marketing terms, as a far as i can see: think different!
Are you sure this were not merely errors in the filesystem? Norton will fix this, it has to do with the vulnerabilty of the macos filesystem (dataforks/resource forks). But you need the norton boot cd to do it. This can be norton on a os9 boot cd or the original norton osx boot cd.
Every os has its own limitations i guess.
"PHOENIX--Microsoft today unveiled its latest effort to ensure that the Web is accessible "everywhere through everything" and that versions of its Windows operating system become "ubiquitous and necessary, like the air we breathe." Speaking to a skeptical audience at CUEC (Conference on Ubiquitous and Environmental Computing), CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that Microsoft has acquired rights to the legendary Colt brand and has a custom version of Windows for Handguns currently in beta testing."...
"Ballmer also demonstrated the Kodak Gun-Cam, one of the many peripherals in the works. The small camera plugs into the e.Colt's USB port and gathers real-time footage through a patented down-the-sights view. "There's lots of important uses for this," noted Ballmer. "With Windows HG's remote firing capability and personal server functionality, you could set your gun up somewhere, then, from anywhere in the world, keep track of what it's aiming at and, when you're ready, fire. We expect something like this to be really big for rifle manufacturers interested in building the remote hunting market.""
Now and again I come across a story on/. that sounds familiar because this FFF guy already wrote about it in some way or another.
The best part about seeing him in SG1 is his role in Twin Peaks where is a connected to a top secret government project researching aliens. So every time I see him in is SG1 role I smile (Okay, okay, I do not watch it that often)
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Right now I am aiming for my very first -1 flamebait: I like to use Flash!
Just because I think content+desgin for big screen internet does not translate well to content+design for handheld internet by merely using a script??
A large portion of the content served on the web is pixel based, as in images. So if you work with images you have think about where to set the minimum and maximum limits. And the rest of the design has to follow.
Part of creating a website is drawing an area on my screen and start working within it. The other part is asking what should be done with the site. For a smaller screen both are different: smaller area, other purpose.
I have a 17" imac, so my screen size is different, too. A site for 800*600 screen works as well here, when you do it right.
I don't want to use JavaScript because you can not trusts it to do what you want because of platform/browser issues, so the use of JavaScript for links puzzles me as well :-) But heck, I even like to use tables instead of div, just because I try to minimize the risk.
In a nutshell that is the difference between designing and programming. I could program a site that does that, but as a designer I am an arrogant SOB and I want the visitor to see the site the way I intended it to. And you know what: I agree with myself :-)
Scalable design is very hard, and not rewarding because the sacrifices you have to make are to big: both sites will probably look like crap. I would end up designing two sites - and looking at things like usability and purpose of the site that would probably be the best solution: A small pen-based device needs another interface and serves another purpose because people are looking at different things (being on the road or just want to surf when nothing to do).
So, from a programmer perspective you can program the shit out of it to make it happen, but as a designer/editor I'm not interested in such a solution because it is not worth it. Two sites should be the answer.
From a designer point of view this is a very strange remark: I design my sites to have a certain width. I should be aiming for a 800*600 screen since there is still a high percentage out there that uses that size (not just old computers but far-sighted people like their screens at that size for instance), but sometimes I think forget it, I am doing a 1024*768 now (which results in a 900*500 or 950*550 page size).
Try reading that on a palm.
I used to have a Newton, so sometimes I think about how it would look on a smaller screen, but for me this is not doable. We will have to wait for those e-paper devices with big enough screens. Or maybe glasses that can be connected to our ipod/psp/xbox/smartphone/videocamera combinations with a terabyte storage you can use to boot any terminal with your own os.
(Those devices will come off course, and we will look back in awe at those bulky grey machines we used to call 'computers')
Wasn't the intelligence gene (and the gay gene) passed on by women?
(And yes, it ir probably more complicated than that)
Amen to that!
I heard people in former East Germany are mad as hell about all the benefits being torn down one by one. I'm living in the Netherlands and it is going downhill here - partly thanks to the European free market liberal ideology.
It is time for a revolution.
I'm disagreeing with that, too. I have a serious bowel-illness that has no cure and only people living in the more civilised and hygienic countries get it. One of the cures that is experimented with is bringing in parasites that could be missing from our gut since it was killed of by modern hygienic standards.
I once heard a story about Pratchett trying to make a move scenario from one of the Death-books, and that he was told by some executive that it was very nice, but couldn't he get rid of that 'death-character', he was afraid the audience would not appreciate it (translation: he thought his money would be at risk because it was not a standard story).
Anyway, don't know if it was true or not, but always tell it to people as an illustration of why quality always/mostly suffers when money is an issue.
I think that that was exactly my point. In the quote I gave the writer of the article asumes that there are fewer mac viruses because there are fewer mac users out there. And AFAIK there are no mac viruses, so there must be another reason.
It is the writer of TFA who is bad at math (worse than I am anyway)
eh ... Adam Tow is experienced enough. He was one of the developers from day one on the Newton.
And although I do not use a Newton anymore I would probably choose good user experience over linux. (And would choose linux over Windows any day)
Firefox mac did not do the trick but safari did: after accepting the applet it jumped to a full screen streaming viewing of the movie 1440x900 pixels, no lag or anything annd good quality too. So no, there is no reason to download and pray vlc will be able to digest it.
If I remember correctly: everybody who joined the army was in the end rewarded with a piece of land and everybody who owned a piece of land was given rights to vote (together with a lot of other rights).
Apple is a hardware company. I believe it was at number 5 or 6 or so with Dell on top and HP also somewhere above them in the list.
Maybe it can be compared to a pass the bottle game: in part we learned again about sex from the 1001 nights - the uncensored edition - and now the arabs have to learn about sex again through commercials and late night MTV?
eh ... what about all those requests not to have sex on the church altars during carnivale? It was not until Victorian times that sex in all its forms and all references to it were banned from public life.
Not that I do not agree with your point but the comparission goes on a limp.
In holland small plants are cloned and sold. As are the seeds. These are all plants garanteed to give good quality and the clones are all female.
Since not everyone has a garden and the quality of plants grown in the garden is not that good, people have special home grow units designed to yield several crops a year (about 3 or 4) by manipulating light conditions.
And it does not stop there. Think fertilizers, lamps, gasses, filters to get rid of the smell, etc. It is a nice little business here.
So yes, people make money of it and if it would be legalized it would be an even bigger business.
You forgot IBM :->
In a world where 50% of the english speaking/writing community is not a native speaker, I think not only what is right in conversational English is the norm.
I once coined the term 'Ainglish' for this (it aint English but it is). I am also a writing in Ainglish. http://annomedia.com/texts/ainglish.html
Stuff like this keeps coming up. Seems to be part of the Apple rumour cycle. Can we trust the source??? Using the G5 is par to of the advantage in marketing terms, as a far as i can see: think different!
Are you sure this were not merely errors in the filesystem? Norton will fix this, it has to do with the vulnerabilty of the macos filesystem (dataforks/resource forks). But you need the norton boot cd to do it. This can be norton on a os9 boot cd or the original norton osx boot cd. Every os has its own limitations i guess.
On http://futurefeedforward.com/front.php?fid=15 it was already mentioned years ago like so many other stories here.
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/. that sounds familiar because this FFF guy already wrote about it in some way or another.
"Microsoft Announces Handguns with Web Access"
"PHOENIX--Microsoft today unveiled its latest effort to ensure that the Web is accessible "everywhere through everything" and that versions of its Windows operating system become "ubiquitous and necessary, like the air we breathe." Speaking to a skeptical audience at CUEC (Conference on Ubiquitous and Environmental Computing), CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that Microsoft has acquired rights to the legendary Colt brand and has a custom version of Windows for Handguns currently in beta testing."
"Ballmer also demonstrated the Kodak Gun-Cam, one of the many peripherals in the works. The small camera plugs into the e.Colt's USB port and gathers real-time footage through a patented down-the-sights view. "There's lots of important uses for this," noted Ballmer. "With Windows HG's remote firing capability and personal server functionality, you could set your gun up somewhere, then, from anywhere in the world, keep track of what it's aiming at and, when you're ready, fire. We expect something like this to be really big for rifle manufacturers interested in building the remote hunting market.""
Now and again I come across a story on
The best part about seeing him in SG1 is his role in Twin Peaks where is a connected to a top secret government project researching aliens. So every time I see him in is SG1 role I smile (Okay, okay, I do not watch it that often)