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Chrome Dev build comes with Flash 10.1 beta "integrated"
Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used web browser plug-in. It enables a wide range of applications and content on the Internet, from g...
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Why your Android app doesn't need an exit button
A couple of weeks ago I published my first Android App Surgery , a technical review of MySettings from JQSoft. One of my UX suggestions wa...
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A basic usability test on ten phones
B. is an old friend of mine who owns an old Nokia. And when I say old, I mean really old. It was released somewhere in 2000 or so (the Nokia, not the friendship). It’s not a smartphone, to put it mildly, and B. does not use the mobile Web.
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TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript (and HTML5 Canvas)
TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript. Contribute to bramstein/typeset development by creating an account on GitHub.
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W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database
Copyright © 2010 W3C ® ( MIT , ERCIM , Keio ), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability , trademark and document use rules apply.
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Hacker News and pseudonymity
Mark Suster has a post about improving civility on YCombinator’s Hacker News: I’ve seen vitriolic responses on HN on several occasion. I mostly get hammered on HN if I writ…
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Increase conversion rate by making your site ugly
The current system of cancer research has failed us. It's time we begin funding the "renegade" blue-chip scientists whose research shows real promise.
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How two magical words increased signups by 28%
Viadeo, a leading SaaS company, used Wingify Testing serivices to increase the CTR on the sign-up form placed on their home page by 28%.
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HN long term change
HN visitors are generally worried that HN is changing, and most of the worries center (obviously) around whether or not it is changing for the worse.
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IE’s big leap forward; CSS3 selectors fully supported
In the past few days I’ve been revising the CSS compatibility table with information about the latest crop of browsers. There’s no doubt about it: this is IE9’s show. It just supports nearly everything. No hassle, no buts.
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The Instapaper Default.png dilemma
iOS apps display a prerendered, static image when they launch called Default.png . Developers can set it to anything they like. This is Instapaper ’s:
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Introduction to Pyjamas
Create, build, and maintain websites and web apps that run in a browser.
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Daring Fireball: GIF, H.264, and Patents
I bring this up not to say browsers should not support Ogg Theora — I’m just saying Ogg is a lot closer to being in GIF’s boat than H.264 is.