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Comment on i can’t have a tablet for $500 (yet). by daniel

daniel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:17:08 +0000

"Many (if not most) current Flash games, menus, and even video players require a visible mouse pointer. They are coded to rely on the difference between hovering over something (mouseover) vs. actually clicking. This distinction is not rare. It’s pervasive, fundamental to interactive design, and vital to the basic use of Flash content. New Flash content designed just for touchscreens can be done, but people want existing Flash sites to work. All of them—not just some here and there—and in a usable manner. That’s impossible no matter what."

Comment on universal design in education by Sheila Witherington

Sheila Witherington — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:48:26 +0000

I applaud you, Daniel, for your passion for this paradigm shift. I, too, am an advocate of universal design and believe it can and should be implemented in our public and social arenas.

Comment on i can’t have a tablet for $500 (yet). by Eric

Eric — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:36:13 +0000

I think the genie is out of the bottle in that sense, though. Annoying advertising and lousy design are unpleasant side effect of our culture. My personal opinion is that Flash is just the current conduit. Whatever standards-based solution that comes along will have the same capacity for abuse.

tl:dr – Shitty Youtube videos in h264 are still shitty youtube videos.

Comment on i can’t have a tablet for $500 (yet). by daniel

daniel — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:30:57 +0000

I was going to leave a long reply talking in greater detail about how websites misuse Flash in all sorts of ways…

But then I found http://www.cheetos.com/view/game/the-legend-of-cheetocorn/

Comment on i can’t have a tablet for $500 (yet). by Eric

Eric — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:08:05 +0000

Also: I’ve gotten used to life without multitasking on the iPhone, but damn the man for me having to reload the same webpage every time I switch to another application.

Comment on i can’t have a tablet for $500 (yet). by Eric

Eric — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:06:44 +0000

I just have to be a whiner about Flash. We don’t have home service at the moment, so the iPhone is my link to the web (and my work PC, but that’s another story). The lack of Flash isn’t game-breaking the phone, but it is an absence that is very noticed. That added together with the emotional tumult that I get sucked into on the blogs about Adobe v. Apple just makes me pukey. Now that they are becoming so much more powerful in the market, Apple’s closed system bothers me much more than before. Mostly because as they become stronger, they gain the ability to force developers and content distributors to bend to their *proprietary* will, further marginalizing potential innovations from other manufacturers.

I kept asking myself why I wasn’t really that hyped about the upcoming tablet announcement, and I’m still asking. Maybe I’m just being short-sighted, but it seems so ultra-niche compared to the ubiquity and utility of the iPhone.

I have no idea why I just put all this crap on you blog.

Comment on an open letter to the wonderful developers at Delicious Monster by G

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:41:46 +0000

Drew, you can be as messy as you wish, I prefer to maintain an organized life. I, too, purchase multiple items and wish I had a way to prevent this. Add in the fact that my mother also purchases the same item and you can see the mobile need for the DL. If Amazon is the problem why not just create an app that transfers only the saved info from ones mac account to the iphone app for reference? Also, the ability of the iphone to be the scanner…why is this not a given?

Comment on an open letter to the wonderful developers at Delicious Monster by daniel

daniel — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:01:55 +0000

If you saw my closet you would be proud.

I really don’t want an organized library. What I want is to stop buying books I’ve already bought/read (some authors don’t publish in nice sequential volumes, damn them). The rest just kindof blossomed from that.

Comment on an open letter to the wonderful developers at Delicious Monster by Drew

Drew — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:09:09 +0000

You took a wrong turn at the point in your life when you decided: “I want to inventory my home library.” It’s much simpler to say “yeah I’ve got some books and stuff over there in the corner” ..and leave it at that. What is it with people like you, ..and my wife for that matter? Your creed seems to be: “things exist so that they can be organized”.

I bet the whimsical authors who write/wrote most of your books are anti-organization and would despise your cataloging efforts.

Sincerely,
-drew from his messy office, who managed to un-bury his keyboard from desk clutter and compose this reply

Comment on an open letter to the wonderful developers at Delicious Monster by daniel

daniel — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:28:17 +0000

I put a lot of passion into saying that Delicious Library isn’t Amazon product info. I realize that right now, all of the info DL uses to describe books is downloaded from Amazon (the general and the Amazon-specific purchasing info). However, because there is more than one location to find the generic book information, I consider “Amazon product information” to be pricing, reviews, and other Amazon-only assets.