Reading Zooming content was great as I am currently looking to improve the layout for this blog so I can start bothering designers with it. Also read the mentioned Embrace your bottom! and the source article. Two great samples mentioned Donotremove and Subtraction. Help welcome…
Archive for the ‘blurps’ Category
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Monday, April 24th, 2006Web rockstars
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006It’s a sunny day and I finally found the time to listen to long podcasts (sunbathing with headphones). I was looking for a report from SxSW06 and found SxSW Notes and stories, episode 7 of an ongoing series of podcasts made by Dustin Diaz. I especially liked the story about meeting Jeffrey Zeldman wondering what will happen if I do go to London and be in the same room as some of these people.
Breakfast at
Friday, April 14th, 2006Yesterday Google finally released the Calendar. It’s a pretty nice app, it does what you expect it to do, it still has some bugs and it’s got the typical Google smell to it. The thing I really liked was the sample event title they give you – it’s different if you’re creating a multi-day event, all-day event or ‘in-day’ event.
BunnyHunt
Thursday, April 13th, 2006I found this link through another blog and it really impressed me. It’s a full on html game. Will the speed of javascript and support for transparency bring death to simple Flash games or only new life to simple HTML games. Is there room for this yet again?
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/BunnyHunt/
Firefox hates developers
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006A few days ago I noticed that Firefox is not making any requests to cached pages. I was a Mozilla Suite user until a month ago when I finally switched. Now I’m seriouslly thinking about switching back.
I am a developer so seeing what request are being made to a server is of utmost importance. Mozilla had a setting which told it that it should always do a request, even if the content is already in cache. This resulted in many 304 responses. I know it causes more traffic – the default setting is something more network friendly.
Firefox removed this great feature. It’s even worse – if you set the size of cache to 0 it still caches stuff and does not make request to the server. If I knew I never would have switched. I’m downloading Seamonkey…