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projectedoptics··on Microsoft/Oracle/Nokia sponsored Fairsearcheurope - anti Google FUD
Bit ironic that they're utilizing Google Analytics
projectedoptics··on Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It
The author fails to take into consideration tablets, e-readers, smart TVs and every other device, currently available or in the distant future, that will have a web browser.

"It Defeats User Expectation"

So let's keep everything exactly the same?

Responsive design to me is progress, eventually we'll either come up with good practices for working with it or maybe something else will take it's place. The way we access the internet is in constant flux and the 960 magazine layout has many pit falls in terms of usability outside of desktop sized screens.

projectedoptics··on Javascript the right way
Since it's on Github - I guess it's for anyone who might fork and modify it, so that there's a link back to the original:

https://github.com/braziljs/js-the-right-way

projectedoptics··on Innocent man jailed for 8 months after DNA match
The odds of coming up positive on a DNA test are a lot higher than I would have originally believed:

"DNA matching for criminal cases looks at only a few specific loci and the alleles associated with them, so the chances of two separate people matching come in somewhere around 1 in 7,000" http://www.fluther.com/145318/is-there-a-possibility-that-th...

projectedoptics··on CSS hack: Predictable block elements
Title is a bit misleading, it's a valid CSS property, not a hack. And the width of block elements has always been predictable, albeit slightly confusing (width + padding + border = element width, etc.)

Polyfill for supporting IE < 8: https://github.com/Schepp/box-sizing-polyfill

projectedoptics··on Keyless BMW cars prove to be very easy to steal
If the alarm is armed shouldn't it be triggered if something connects to the OBD port? Not actually prevent the port functioning just trigger the alarm.
projectedoptics··on Attention HTML5 mobile devs. It doesnt work
The lack of the faster Nitro javascript engine in webviews on iOS is probably a major reason for this.

> The Nitro JavaScript engine is only available within Mobile Safari. Outside Mobile Safari — whether in App Store apps using the UIWebView control, or in true web apps that have been saved to the home screen — apps get iOS’s older JavaScript engine. [1]

> “Apple is basically using subtle defects to make web apps appear to be low quality — even when they claim HTML5 is a fully supported platform,” says one mobile web app developer, who asked that his name not be used.[2]

[1][2] http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/nitro_ios_43

AFAIK all that is still true today aside from webapps saved to the home screen (which now does use the Nitro engine)

projectedoptics··on Cirulis Typeface [scroll the page to see the effect]
I concur, the header put me completely off the font, but after scrolling and seeing the examples of each weight I actually quite like it.

I personally don't mind the scrolling effect (there are much worse examples out there).

projectedoptics··on Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
The 3 month expiry is what led to my company paying for licenses. Having to potentially pause development and spend time doing the same setup process 4 times a year is painful (and wasteful since there's no real reason apart from trivial licensing issues - the resulting install is the same).
projectedoptics··on Demonstrating responsive design to clients.
I think the jump is more realistic, it means the resize event will only be fired once. Which is what the orientation change on a mobile device would do.

http://responsive.is/ animates the iframe resize meaning the event will be repeatedly fired.

projectedoptics··on iframe, you are dead to me
Sounds like he has more of an issue with how iframes are implemented on various platforms than with iframes themselves.

Up until recently I had a similar issue with position fixed on mobile devices.

projectedoptics··on Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account
I had the exact same email. Never used adwords before and only had the one account. Adwords support were unable to provide me with a straight answer as to why I was banned and just kept linking me to the terms of service.