ronaldj

I hate batteries.

Personal computing has left the realm of the desk and the office. Surely, we can use a mouse and keyboard while being mobile, but we wouldn't trade the accuracy and ergonomics of a mouse and keyboard for something else when at home or at work. Many new devices, like the iPad, are consumption devices. You use it to watch videos, to play games, to listen to music, to read books, or to surf the web. Creation on these devices is limited. Surely, you can type an email or take notes in a meeting, but what you gain in mobility you lose in accuracy and ergonomics. The mouse has been around for fifty years and its design has been iterated upon again and again, from a simple block of wood to well formed plastic molds to fit various hand shapes and sizes. Touches and gestures may be the new hot thing, but for real work the mouse isn't going anywhere.

Am I the only one that's sad about this?

Why not?

Isn't that kind of a ridiculous question? Obviously, none.

It's interesting how it sticks the images in the DOM as hidden image elements. I've been working with canvas for the past year and I've never come across someone doing it that way before. Anyone know pros/cons over doing it that way versus loading an image using the Image object in JavaScript?

Amazingly cool.

Instead of a click, why not make it a roll over?

It'd be great is the canvas api returned the context object whenever you made a change to it, so we could do chaining without an extra library.

Used this a number of times in a pinch. It'll definitely be missed. Makes me want a smartphone a little more.

The canvas code could be optimized to make it just as efficient.

I believe it.

I would've bought one if they released it for Verizon.

Looked at the US page, from ATT: $10.24 / MB for data. Seriously? What year is it?

Russian Circles

Pelican

Explosions in the Sky

Thrice

MGMT

From my experience with ExtJS and IE, the problem with IE is that it lazily evaluates stuff. Your ExtJS will load lightning fast in IE6, but when you start click on stuff it then runs the JavaScript to generate the HTML. Other browsers don't do this (or their JavaScript engines are fast enough to compensate). This is all a bit fuzzy. Haven't touch it in months, so I could be wrong or things could have changed.

This is dumb. This is awesome: http://ukijs.org/mail/index.html

24 steps: Interpol to In Flames: http://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/?start=interpol&end=...

I loved this movie when I was a kid!

They have some more small little artsy videos they did for Chrome's features, which I've never seen before: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/features_mac.html

If you have to use a stylus you've already failed.

It's great!

This is great. Apple isn't the company I fell in love with. Can anyone say that this still represents the Apple we know today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USn5t5nQWU8

Or this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0

I'm in the same boat. I think Apple should consider adopting that bullshit "Don't be evil" mantra.

"... to help build the first US nuclear power stations for 30 years."

Shouldn't that be the first US nuclear power stations in 30 years?

I'm sure this will go up once they start offering the Nexus One for Verizon.

"Mobile browser detection is really hard. None of the reports I've read so far show how they detect browsers."

From my experience it's pretty easy, here's one way to do it: <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”mobile.css” media=”only screen and (max-device width:480px)” />

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/

Every time I hit backspace I get sent back to this page or ones before it.

You mean the database shards didn't give it away? :P