Renaming “Chrome” to “That browser with Flash”
Renaming “Chrome” to “That browser with Flash”
The medium with which you choose to express a message shapes that message — be careful it doesn’t contradict it.
Case in point: A Rational Web Platform (via @brucel)
article
markup — even js-generated markup is predictably disgusting Everything about this is anti-web, practically screaming “ignore me”.
Improvements:
My apologies to the @mozilla staff manning the FF Nightly bug reports today, for the stream of gradually less coherent “FF crashes when I drag leafletjs.com maps around whilst making HTTP requests” reports.
Received some spam telling me my website needs a responsive layout. I wonder if @beep gets these emails.
Unsure whether you’re using the <article>
element correctly? Wonder no longer, there is a tool to help you out: waterpigs.co.uk/services/test-article #html #web #dev
DuckDuckGo’s r.duckduckgo.com redirects are intermittently giving Connection Reset errors — just one of the reasons why it’s better that they don’t exist. Let each link link to the thing it says it links to.
This evening: documented Yahoo! Pipes UI in case of sudden shutdown, built first mockup of web dataflow UI using jsplumbtoolkit.com — really excellent library, exactly the right balance between functionality and framework. It gives you a lot but doesn’t dictate how to use it.
Another thing I love about the web: users have the power to take control of their UIs and improve their own experiences.
Aside: DRM for HTML would prevent this from being possible #antiweb
.@john_nye all the stores I’ve submitted extensions to do manual reviews. Mozilla:
Safari and Opera have fairly basic, boring forms for uploading stuff, and are extremely picky and unclear about exact image sizes for screenshots and icons. There’s also no “review in progress” page, but otherwise acceptable.
Obviously I’ve not been able to actually submit an extension to the Chrome store, but I’d hope that it’s a damned good experience for $5. If they are doing automatic reviews, then the price becomes even more counter-intuitve. If they’ve automated it, surely it’s cheaper and quicker for them?
.Jack Way no other extension store (mozilla, apple, opera) demands payment, or requires it for verification. Also, Mozilla offers a far superior extension upload experience. Google has no excuse :)
en.riff.is is an excellent example of why device testing is an important part of responsive design (try using it at iPad screen size)
Why not to make assumptions about where your site visitors come from send #js to do a hyperlink’s job:
(That link didn’t work, obv)
#TIL Nicola Pellow (author of the first line mode browser) was from, or at least lived in, Okehampton, Devon (WWW/People -- Pellow)
From now on I am framing all web standards-type discussions with the question “what is it reasonable to demand that authors do”
For example, it’s not reasonable to demand authors publish content in more than one format. It’s not reasonable to demand that authors learn how RDF works. It is reasonable to require authors to publish HTML. It is reasonable to require authors to add some simple microformats like rel-author, h-entry or h-card.
myOpenID.com is dead. OpenID is dead. Long live Web Sign-In. #indieweb #indieauth
I got an email saying the service will end on 2014-02-01, but the site appears to be down already. janrain.com, the company who apparently ran myOpenID, is also down, so I can’t find a “goodbye” post. Here’s the notification email:
I wanted to reach out personally to let you know that we have made the decision to end of life the myOpenID service. myOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014.
In 2006 Janrain created myOpenID to fulfill our vision to make registration and login easier on the web for people. Since that time, social networks and email providers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo! have embraced open identity standards. And now, billions of people who have created accounts with these services can use their identities to easily register and login to sites across the web in the way myOpenID was intended.
By 2009 it had become obvious that the vast majority of consumers would prefer to utilize an existing identity from a recognized provider rather than create their own myOpenID account. As a result, our business focus changed to address this desire, and we introduced social login technology. While the technology is slightly different from where we were in 2006, I’m confident that we are still delivering on our initial promise – that people should take control of their online identity and are empowered to carry those identities with them as they navigate the web.
For those of you who still actively use myOpenID, I can understand your disappointment to hear this news and apologize if this causes you any inconvenience. To reduce this inconvenience, we are delaying the end of life of the service until February 1, 2014 to give you time to begin using other identities on those sites where you use myOpenID today.
Speaking on behalf of Janrain, I truly appreciate your past support of myOpenID.
And the #js lesson of the day is: bean.fire(el, 'click')
doesn’t work in Firefox Nightly, but turns out it’s unnecessary, because HTMLElement.click()
does exactly the same thing and already works cross-browser. Always use the browser-native APIs if you can.
Reminder: If it’s not hypertext, doesn’t have a URL, has no hyperlinks, isn’t navigable in a web browser: it’s not the web.
Is a website a web app if I keep on trying to open it using Spotlight? “Launching a browser” is flow-breaking indirection.
”Back to the Future is a movie, not a UI pattern”
LOL. Tantek Çelik on pagination directionality, a pet peeve of mine. TUMBLR WHY U GO THE WRONG WAY?