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Surprising you should mention GitHub pages, because that's where the original is hosted on.
The comments overlay cover up the very text that you're suppose to be reading. This disrupts the reading flow, making it hard to find my way back to where I was reading, especially comments are merely secondary to the actual article. To get back to the article I have to press this tiny close button on the top left corner of the comments overlay. Plus, there's a huge amount of whitespace to the right of the article which you're not using http://i.imgur.com/1JvLWQP.png - why cover important content, leaving large amount of screen space unused when there's perfectly good unused space on the right?
The pagination scheme is terrible. The article is a blog post, not a book. And even if it were, no one would want to read something on screens. (Edit: Firefox 21 beta. I see Chrome that has transitions, which means this is not actually poor performance, but simply missing transitions. I still don't see any reason why Firefox shouldn't have transitions, though) The performance is terrible. I can count seconds between me clicking on the next page button and the next page actually showing up, with no feedback whatsoever that the page is loading.
Document annotation and comment UI isn't hard. When Microsoft Word has you beat in terms of UI, you're probably doing something very wrong.
The code mentioned in the post is also still in the latest version of the package's code on Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/a...
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http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/7238/150097
In addition to that, it is possible to write well written, but highly specialized answers that gain few upvotes, or relatively simple answers that accrue large number of upvotes simply because it is a common question. In this sense, reputation is a measure of how 'valuable' your contribution to the site is, which is often, but not always aligned with how knowledgeable you are. There are other outliers too, like answers that get featured on Proggit or HN, but those are far less common.
(It also used to be possible to gain large amount of reputation by simply being the first to reply to a poll with a popular answer, but those type of questions are no longer acceptable).
- The Babel Fish - Earth's entry in the Guide - "Mostly Harmless" - "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. Its knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" - The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - the effects of drinking which is "similar to having your brains smashed in by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick." - The Infinite Improbability Drive - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbtZ4NgtdA - The creation myth of the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI. They believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being known as the Great Green Arkleseizure - Mankind are only the third most intelligent species on the planet. Dolphins are more intelligent than man, and mice are more intelligent than dolphins - Towels are a hitchhiker's best friend - Earth being demolished by Vogons - The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything - 42, as calculated by Deep Thought
All of which comes from the Hitchhiker's Guide novels.
For those who don't want to click through, the site first present you with a fake Firefox popup, with the only a close button. Each time you close one of them, new ones will appear in greater numbers. Do this three times, and your screen will be filled with popup and a message that translate roughly to:
> Ignoring the housing problem will only make it worse, help us change the status quo!
> Our city may be beautiful on the surface, but underneath all that 10 000 hardworking low income workers are unable to share the fruit of our success. Families are forced to live in apartments with an average area of 40 square feet. They need your help to improve their lives; forward this email, help promote social justice!
To be frank I'm not sure how Google uses this information, but it does make me laugh when the whole Ubuntu Dash searches Amazon thing blew up. It's the same thing, really, yet nobody talks about Chrome at all.
Until recently, Chrome 'implemented' the HTML5 date input by giving the user a spinner on the side of the input box which, when pressed, will set the date in the input to '00-00-0000'. Worse, this renders the normal feature detection used by libraries such as modernizr.js useless.
Text rendering is badly broken for Chrome on Windows right now. http://i.stack.imgur.com/MsHdy.png - Firefox, Chrome, IE9. Bug report: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
There was a bug that caused inset box shadow used to be rendered outside the element. This is fixed in recent desktop versions, but still haunts older versions of Android's default browser - versions as recent as the one included with 3.x Honeycomb are affected.
Browsers, even modern ones, are incredibly quirky. Moving to a monolithic Webkit market will not help with any of the bugs listed above, nor, I suspect, most of the bugs one might encounter today as a web developer.
Modern browsers implement ECMAScript 5; older browsers and AS 2.0 implement ECMAScript 3. ECMAScript 4 was scrapped, but AS 3.0 still implements it. Wikipedia, as usual, has all the gory details if anyone is actually interested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript
Unfortunately it's not as easy as it looks. I found that out when doing research for a weekend project. Here's an excellent A List Apart article detailing all the gotchas you can face while working with it: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/application-cache-is-a-do.... The Financial Times Labs have an interesting article talking about an approach to deploying an offline app that uses the AppCache as little as possible: http://labs.ft.com/2012/08/basic-offline-html5-web-app/
And of course you can find information about it in places like Dive into HTML5 and MDN, by simply searching for them
> The judge, Paul A. Engelmayer of Federal District Court, ruled that the rejected ad was “not only protected speech — it is core political speech,” [...] As such, the judge held, the ad “is afforded the highest level of protection under the First Amendment.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/nyregion/mta-violated-righ...
Here's one of the ads: http://i.imgur.com/iY0bx.jpg
I suppose the only reason why she could reveal all of that now is because CBS' PR team is in damage control now
> Ultimately, we were told that we must use the official statement and that we must follow corporate policy to defer all press requests to corporate communications.
It's not exactly a bad idea, though it is possible to take things a little too far. Certainty if you observe the trends in web designs recently sites appear to be "flatter", less cluttered and more focused, without the Apple inspired "Web 2.0" glossiness that has taken over from circa 2006 onwards
a. Lazy b. Incompetent, or c. Used proprietary webkit technology,
none of which will inspire much confidence in the actual contents of slides (which I can't read anyway, since I'm on Opera Mobile)
It's also causing the page to fail validation (ignoring the errors about unknown meta tags): http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpaulstamatiou...
site:github.com great firewall of china
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