TweedHeads

SMS can't click on links either, so just send the word LINK and get done with it.

Try these options:

1. Go with SVG and WebSockets.

or

2. Go with pure HTML,Javascript and CSS with transformations.

I am working right now on a game based on SVG and couldn't be happier. Works flawlessly on FX, WK & OP.

One last advice, drop support for IE and save headaches and wasted resources.

Flagged. I've had enough of cheap tabloids on HN.

Two things:

First, I don't like URL shorteners for this same reason. Every web server should be in charge of managing long and short urls easily with just one line of code.

Second, how expensive it is to keep the site running? $10 a month for a cheap hosting service and they can make more than that with just google ads.

Now, if they want to live largely just by shortening urls then no, it won't pay the bills.

"That makes it great for stuff like configuration files"

Nothing beats YAML for configuration files.

For everything else, use JSON.

Everytime hurricane season comes, they start their red alert propaganda on the news alarming people about how the oil supply from the gulf will be reduced therefore oil prices will go up.

After hurricane season, prices should go down, but no, it never happens.

Then on winter oil prices will go up again because you know, heating consumption increases, but it never goes down when the scorching summer arrives.

Then the middle east.

Then chavez.

Then... [insert alarmist propaganda here]

Wake me up when they implement SVG and canvas.

No, they don't care about HTML5 no matter how they spin it.

If you vote yes, you vote for not not returning? Or is it yes to not returning?

Negative polls suck.

I say we should have bases on the moon the same as we have bases on antarctica.

Then make it the default for next version, just redesign it to be part of the layout with huge buttons instead of just a toolbar dragged to the side.

Idea: Use two sidebars, one fixed to the left for formatting (never change its buttons so users don't get lost), one to the right that changes based on probable actions like working with tables as soon as you enter a table, or image manipulation, etc.

Leave just the menu on top for more vertical space for the document.

I'll use that.

ps. resize toolbars and use small icons when using monitors with resolution less than 1024x768.

Drop it now.

Copy photoshop toolbars on the sides.

Monitors have more width than height.

Here is what I'd do, start from here:

  <div class="comment level0">
    <a class="up"></a> 
    <a class="dn off"></a>
    <h1>title</h1>
    <p class="minus2">comment here</p>
  </div>

Then apply styles at will, increase padding per level and dimming per negative karma.

I bet code size decreases while readability increases.

Oh gawd, I've never taken a peek under the hood of HN but all these font tags almost made me slash my wrists in despair.

Time to run a "Redesign HN in HTML5" contest,

Reward: a standing ovation, and an iPhone.

Lack of CSS understanding. No excuse.

Once you know your tools you can do wonders you'll be amazed at how easy it was.

I bet a hundred CSS experts here can give you some interesting ways on redesigning comments.

Show us your best.

SVG is one of the most interesting web technologies right now, even better than canvas. But there are strong forces opposing it like M$ and adobe that will never allow it to gain traction. All major browsers support SVG except IE. And they will never implement it.

I would like to know their reasons.

Absolutely beautiful!

From my dictionary:

Startup: any business during the first year.

Not during planning, web design, hiring, marketing or any other phase.

Once you hang that "We're open" sign on your door you're a startup for the next year.

From a lemonade stand to intergalactic travel, size doesn't matter.

webware vs fashionware

Nop, not a rivalry.

Oh gawd, reading thru TC comments confirms my impression that they jumped the shark.

"You can checkout any time you like,

But you can never leave"

Great idea, there are plenty of personal web services that need a business clone and del.icio.us is one of them, same as wikis, twitter, etc.

Sites based on user-submitted content will tend to be dominated by a maffia.

There must be editors who enforce and maintain the spirit of the community or it will become a propaganda outlet for the rulers.

We've seen it happen with Apple many times, one post about the GV fiasco is enough, not ten posts a day for a week trumpeting your own horn.

Or ten posts a day about dropping the iPhone.

Or ten posts a day about how much the AppStore sucks.

If you think we don't distinguish propaganda from real news, you'll be greatly disappointed.

HN is going down, whether we like it or not, and only PG can save it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Propaganda, payperpost and FUD are killing HN.

NO, I won't ditch my iPhone!

Sometimes I have to use a hack in javascript to create a quick switch, instead of if...else:

  if(n==0) dir="north"
  else if(n==1) dir="east"
  else if(n==2) dir="south"
  else if(n==3) dir="west"

or switch:

  switch(n){
    case 0: dir="north"; break;
    case 1: dir="east"; break;
    case 2: dir="south"; break;
    case 3: dir="west"; break; 
  }

I'll use:

  dir=["north","east","south","west"][n]

I hope you find it useful in some cases too

I've always wondered if it wouldn't be easier to use the grid to power cars instead of thousands of tank trucks on a daily basis to fill our gas stations which at the same time consume more gasoline.

From the practical point of view, we should use the oil to generate electricity, not to run our cars. Until we find a way to replace oil with nuclear, fision or whatever, then the grid remains intact we only change the source. And cars remain electric without any change.

See? blame BigOil for stomping his boot on the head of progress...

Yes, it is fair. The world has changed a lot and nowadays if you have a patent worthwile funds will flood your bank account to bring it to reality in no time.

The rest is bureaucracy or just plain bad intention.

In the tech woeld, patents should last just one year. Enough time to build and market your product and have the advantage of being first.

After that is open season for everybody to improve upon that patent, everybody wins.

Somebody please take PHP, fork it, fix all the annoyances and inconsistencies, rename it as PHX and I'll drop old PHP like a herpetic whore.

Not even a petabyte?

So when the iPhone v15 comes out with 1PB of storage we will be carrying more info in one device than our whole brain.

Interesting times ahead...