June 2010
12 posts
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Team Virb: Goodbye Profile, Hello Website →
Virb is reinventing itself. Again. This gets ridiculous, if you ask me. Their concept somehow never worked out, they could’ve been where facebook is now. They didn’t really pursue this way, so they look for other directions again.
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures →
Improved handling of kerning pairs and ligatures in modern browsers using the text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; declaration.
Giving Great Talks: A Mashup →
Great tips for talks by @jmspool and Edward Tufte. /via @zeldman
“Using dummy text often results in an aesthetically pleasing but unrealistic...”
– UX Myths: Myth #19: You don’t need the content to design a website
“In other words, [screen reader vendors] decided to protect their users from...”
– Why aural CSS is not supported by screen readers via @sprungmarkers
It’s OK to change your Mind about People and... →
Measure the Speed of Light Using Your Microwave →
with Marshmallows. Of course.
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Shorturl Safari Extension by ❡ Clint Ecker →
This is how an URL shortener should work. If there is a defined canonical URL use it, else shorten it with bit.ly. Rocks. Socks. Off.
In a nutshell:
Add a button to your toolbar and a keyboard shortcut (opt+s for now) to your browser . If you don’t see it show up there by default, you can right click the toolbar and “customize toolbar” and drag it in.
By default will attempt to determine if...
“»When we do this, sometimes people call us crazy.«
»We don’t think Flash makes a...”
– D8: Steve Jobs about Flash [by @fscklog]
Google ditches Windows on security concerns →
mnmal:
“We’re not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,” said one Google employee.
“Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks,” said another.
New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. “Linux is open source and we feel good about it,” said...