Testing websites on old windows mobile devices is an… experience.

Connecting to WiFi gave me the option of connecting to “The Internet” or “Work” (?).

On form submit using the software keyboard, I get a dialog warning me about the certificate, with the options “yes” and “no” but no question. Turns out the software keyboard was hiding “Do you want to proceed?”

Now I’m finally in the site, there’s no support for label, so those nice big touch targets I made are mostly useless. Also, there’s no text wrapping.

Hopefully h-card entities should get expanded in the reply context for this note (crosses fingers)

Aaron Parecki testing reply context microformat entity expansion, please ignore :)

Another quick pingback sanity check test:

• http://aaronparecki.com
• http://indiewebcamp.com

So, it seems that pingbacks are not working as they should. This is a problem. Let us ping some URLs:

• Laurent Eschenauer
• Aaron Parecki
• indiewebcamp

Geeksphone apparently shipping Keon and Peak Firefox OS devices from next week! #excited

Prices are €91 and €149 plus taxes, respectively.

Update: link to announcement

Their site is down for maintenance… that’s a good thing right?

Need to use require.js to load a bunch of scripts compiled via assetic into a PHP file, annoyed by auto-append of .js, don’t want to set up irritating routing? Add a ? to the URL, require.js will add a .js to the query string, loading the file correctly.

Or, alternatively, I might use #webactions and do=post, based on a bunch of research

Doing a test implementation of a+rel+iframe+postMessage hypermedia UI injection (needs a better name) — using existing rel=create-form

Yet another reason why HTML+microformats2 is the way forward for feeds on the web:

“Most people don’t know what HTML is and yet are able to consume pages without caring much.”

/by Julien Genestoux (source)

Colour testing tools: Colour Brewer for generating map colour schemes (warning: flash) and Colour Oracle for seeing your screen as it would be seen by someone with colour blindness

Julien Genestoux I’ll probably add one this afternoon — wrapped in a subscribe webaction, of course :)

Is the convention to have just one for the homepage (i.e. subscribe to “me”), or to have one wherever there is a feed (e.g. on my notes or articles pages?

Just reported+hid all Wix ads on Facebook — dialog asked me why. Flash websites are “Against My Views” #web

This evening’s project: catching up on a bit of #taproot dev. #todo:

• remove lines — whitespace FTW
• get rid of crappy AJAX+backbone for calling new note UI into notes page, replace it with iframe+postMessage

Turns out that performing a GET request on a data URI from PHP works if file_get_contents is used, not if cURL is used. I wonder what support is like for other server side languages — using data URIs in with could be the basis of some interesting #webactions.

.Josh Emerson’s stateless icon/progress loader on kylebean.co.uk is one of the most beautiful bits of design I’ve seen in a long time. Heads up: the back button does not work in Safari 5.1

The more interwoven the relationship between the appearance and the manufacturing process is, the more honest the material.

Too right. I love the way @kevingoldman advocates the use of movement, state and microcopy for emotive design on the web.

(source) /via @alistapart #bookmark #web #design #flatland

Saddened by the irony that Jeremy Keith’s The Long Web links to headconference.com, which no longer exists :(

#exeterweb conversation summaries:

Doing acceptance #testing in a different language to your application is philosophically a good idea.

When syndicating data, the quality can be used to determine the canonical version even if the separate versions don't link to each other (example: photographer takes RAWs, gives TIFF to client, RAW is proof of provenance) #POSSE

Not drinking tea and not having cream on cream teas reduces the day to day hassle, stress and confusion of living in Devon by approximately 90%.