Trezoid

From wikipedia: A design language or design vocabulary is an overarching scheme or style that guides the design of a complement of products.

In microsofts case it's the "metro" style, with lots of bright (almost cartoony) colors, big blocks filled with lots of light-weight, sans-serif fonts.

This whole idea of being productive every single day is why burnout happens. Using that extra day to not be productive (say, get the shopping done while the shops are quite and everything is open) means you can spend the weekend relaxing, so you're way more productive come Monday.

Any country that uses British spelling for things.

App stores should make it easier to pay for the apps without having to register a credit card. Going for an enterprise feel won't help if people don't want to (or can't) register a credit card but can't pay any other way.

Apple has done this extremely well with the iTunes cards, which has made people more inclined to pay for apps.

Do people building anything real world care about IE6 any more? Hell, do they really care about 7?

I completely agree. Facebook is providing a platform in a market that has always been extremely volatile, and are using their position to make questionable decisions. It will back-fire eventually.

Personally, I can't honestly see facebook being nearly as central in 5 years time, if it exists at all. Some hot new thing will come along and do sharing better and everyone will jump all at once.

I disagree that passwords are a browser con, especially given the number of people who leave their phones lying around or let friends use them. If the app deals with anything sensitive (and email can certainly be one of those) it should require a password every time.

Imagine if someone found your phone with email logged in. They would immediately be able to scan through your email for registration confirmation emails, go to that site and reset the password giving them complete access. If one of those accounts was for a site which saved cc details and had something the thief wanted (or could sell), they can drain your card with out setting off any fraud warnings, because you wanted to convenience of not having to type your password every time.

Photoshop is fast, responsive and made for power users, illustrator and in-design more-so. In fact, all three are absolutely best in class with nothing even close to challenging them.

The problem is more that they don't compete well when the opposition are just text editors, and where people are perfectly happy to remove all the visual stuff.

Stylish[1] exists on both chrome and firefox, on all OS's with no other requirements and a gallery of nearly 50,000 styles with support for variables.

I don't really see how something limited to a single OS/Browser combo is particularly useful by comparison.

[1]http://userstyles.org/

I really don't understand why they say the stripes version "requires" javascript.

Firstly, they're relying on javascript to do the striping effect, applying a class to even rows. If someone has javascript turned off this effect will degrade even in modern browsers.

Secondly, .stripes tbody tr:nth-of-type(2n){ background: #f6f6f6} achieves exactly the same thing in all modern browsers, and degrades just as well as the javascript version (even if javascript is off).

I have several thousand dollars worth of second hand games (for xbox 360), I've never once come across a scratched disc.

While I'm sure it could potentially be a problem in high-churn stores like gamestop, most places do have a replacement policy on discs that are scratched at purchase.

No, unfortunately. Most of the videos going around (read: all of them) are from MWC where B2G was demoed.

The development group is VERY active on IRC and there was some chatter at the time about that. Some of the slight lags in the demo were actually parts of the CSS transition they use (originally intended to avoid accidental swipes when they wanted taps) and was tweeked to be much better not long afterwards.

More recently there have been significant improvements in the actual CSS animation on the gecko side (improvements which will hit firefox in the future) which means everything feels even faster and more natural.

At this point B2G is making significant progress _every day_ so about the only real way to get an up to date idea of how it runs is to either read the github commit log frequently or put it on a device (and currently that means a GSII)

They had another device running it which really was much worse then the SGSII, but with a much smaller screen it doesn't make for great video.

It's improved significantly since that video.

A media API is being developed (in co-operation with the W3C) to allow exactly that.

Further, apps will be able to request "trusted app" status to run with less cross domain restrictions.

The rollout of the top H1 is downright painful (locked up the browser with 100%+ CPU usage on a C2D MBP 13") in Firefox 12.0a1.

Everything else works though.

It's all good in Chrome 16.0.912.63 on the above machine though.

Placebo search button? Based on effect it doesn't seem to do anything, and visually it looks like it "sticks" and doesn't ever get "pressed" when you click on it.

also, it can't handle "gradient" at all.