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We already have forking, both for the current version of your design and previous versions. We cover it on the community tour page.

Diffing has been talked about internally and it would be pretty awesome.

Just navigate to chrome://flags/ and you can enable it there along with many other experimental options.

There is such a thing as too much contrast when it comes to text. When typesetting it is advisable to never use pure black for text because it simmers on the page. I normally design the base text on the page to have between 15% and 30% brightness because it makes it more pleasant to read.

There is a place for light gray text. It is all about maintaining a hierarchy of information. Some text should be hidden away and harder to read because it is less important than the copy around it.

IBM has got that covered: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...

Oh man, Camino uses Gecko 1.9.0 which is the same version Firefox 3.0 shipped with (but the buttons work in firefox 3.0).

I traced down the bug to a conflict in my blog's css with the buttons. Somewhere they are inheriting styles that break them. The code for the buttons on github does not have this problem.

I would love to fix this, but Camino doesn't appear to have any sort of developer tool. How are you suppose to debug things?

Is this still the case? If so I will get it fixed. I didn't do any testing yet because the blog post was not meant to go live yet.

Zooming as it is is a broken mechanic. Google Docs already attempts to detect if you are zooming in and tells you to zoom to 100% or things will be broken. I wish there was a reliable way to detect if the user is at a weird zoom level.

That is how this is done. The label is html, only the background is an image.

Author here: I will move the images over to a real host as soon as I can. The blog post was incomplete and only published so some friends could read it over. Wasn't meant to go live at all.

oDesk and elance leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The only real way I can see using one of these services is where the potential employers bid on my limited time, and not the other way around. That way your helping the workers to get paid more, and you are not helping the employers pay less.

Don't ever use illustrator for web design. Monitors uses pixels and you need to work in pixels if you expect to do great work. Use Illustrator when you are illustrating.

20-40 hours per page is ridiculously high. They must be incredibly slow and it makes my doubt their design skill.

To design a web app is incredibly easy because there is no marketing element to it--it is all about functionality. If you are bring on a designer to do work on a webapp his job should be to make it pretty, but also to make it usable. If all you are getting is better color selection then you are wasting your money.

And websites like http://www.graboid.com repackaged usenet to make is accessible to the general population. Movie studios don't seem to mind since they have a DMCA process and most content never gets one.

Just because people are downloading a ton of illegal content right now doesn't mean 5 years from now the average person won't be downloading it legally. This is how progress is made.

The idea that 2% of users using 20% of the bandwidth is hurting "normal" people is a PR move that is going to do great harm to future innovation. The way I see it those 2% of users are early adopters and a couple of years from now "normal people" will be using as much bandwidth as the current 2% does. Limiting bandwidth now hurts future innovation.

I took a look at that page you linked as an example of quality content, and I just don't see it. The video was incredible superficial and a better medium would have been screenshots that identified all the UI controls and their function since that is all the video did.

Khan Academy has quality content which are dense with information. Your video wasted four minutes and told me nothing I couldn't find out by playing around with Photoshop.

I saw the videos, but they weren't very good and didn't give me any sense of how the app worked.

2)If SSO isn't an option due to support costs then how about having no user registration at all. I don't see any reason why people should be able to sign into a support site.

3) I know you have design customization, I am just not willing to pay the price for it. I think it should be standard with all accounts.

That said the foodily example is quite nice, but the navigation is hurting my head. I am getting lost rather easily.

I would love to use this but these are some serious issues:

1) All packages should have SSL. I don't do business with companies that think security is an optional feature.

2) Single sign-on should be available for all packages. I am not interested in a walled garden approach for my app's support.

3) I don't care about white labeling, but a custom design is extremely important to me. Support is too important for our growth to just throw our brand out the window. Any support system needs to be contained in my website's frame.

That said the app looks really nice. A demo would go a long way to giving me a sense of the user's experience because as it is I don't know what 1/2 of the features are and how they are accessed.

I have thought about making video tutorials on how to use Photoshop to create practical design elements. Ie, how to make a button or how to design a header. Something every programmer making their own webapp could use that doesn't really require much Photoshop knowledge.

Would there be any interest?

They sacrificed a TON of usability in order to become this artsy. I am not sure why since art has nothing to do with email--especially not business email.

The worse example of this is their feature tour. It is actually very painful to read now with way too much space wasted on illustration that contribute nothing. I couldn't find a single screenshot of the app.

I sure hope they are split testing this.

Not that good at JS yet. My background is in design and crafting enjoyable user experiences. I am very passionate about education though.

You don't happen to need a part-time (2-3 days a week) designer/front-end developer as well do you?

The Mac App store really has no chance against Steam when it comes to games. It is a better platform and not tied to a single operating system. Never-mind their approval process not being so finicky.

Man, functionality aside since I haven't used it, it is not very impressive. I would describe it as ugly as sin. It looks like the graphics were all thrown together in an afternoon. I hope it is placeholder.

- They replaced the nice soft gray/blue Chrome UI with a harsh gray one.

-The keyboard buttons are flat and lifeless.

-Arrows for selecting text has no depth and high contrast border.

-The page turning looks like something from the 90s

-The Youtube videos pop in from the left

This has really set my expectations low for what was suppose to be a significant UI upgrade. As a designer this makes me cringe.

He is listed on Angel List so I would assume so.

Actually Mac monitors are OK for print since print doesn't have the range of colors that a display has. What they are not ok for is designing for designed intended for screens.

I wasn't really talking about performance on Mac vs Windows. Photoshop on Mac is buggier, designed poorly, and very flakey overall. I have used both platforms. I own both platforms.

Look, this is not a Mac vs. PC issue. It is merely Mac's target demographic not being designers any more. It has not been designers for a very long time.

Mac displays are not very good. Their color range is poor. It is the middle-top end of consumer displays, but it is by no means a professional display. I wouldn't even dream of doing anything requiring accurate colors on an Mac display. Their 30" is about as relevant as Xserve. It is not their target demographic any more.

I am not knocking Mac hardware. Their mobile hardware is the best on the market. However, the perception that Macs are design machines came from when Photoshop was a Mac exclusive. This has not been the case for a very long time and I would say the PC version of Photoshop is significantly better than the Mac version as it stands. I have a MacBook, but I also have a PC largely because I use Photoshop many hours each day and Photoshop on OS X is bad.

Color management, besides being supported by Windows, is more applicable to print design and pretty much irrelevant when it comes to design viewed on a screen.

Apple doesn't get designers and any HTML5 authoring suite they produce would most likely be shitty. I know people think Mac is the designer's platform, but that has not been the case for quite some time. Software such as Aperture is an amateur version of Photoshop. Oddly enough I would look to Adobe for innovation in the HTML5 space.

And instead makes me feel uncomfortable storing my data with you. Doesn't seem like a worthwhile tradeoff

Seems quite legal to me. A quick google revealed you can buy the here (http://www.bumpkey.us) without any license. I could not find any mention that you had to be a locksmith to get a bump key set.