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Creating a webpage icon for iPad or iPhone

June 16, 2010

I’ve been using Silvio Rizzi’s excellent Reeder for iPad for the past several days. It’s far and away the nicest Google Reader application for iPad, and maybe anywhere. One thing that I noticed about it was that for some of the sites in my feed there were big fancy icons, while others were stuck with favicon.ico
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Browsers read your CSS selectors right to left.

May 30, 2010

Right to Left
One of the important things to understand about how browsers read your CSS selectors, is that they read them from right to left. That means that in the selector ul > li a[title="home"] the first thing thing interpreted is a[title="home"]. This first part is also referred to as the “key selector” in that [...]

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Payroll company ADP has a website that sucks.

May 14, 2010

Dear ADP,
It’s 2010. Your website is very very broken. Your website does not even allow me to login from my mac. Several of your competitors websites do. Please address this now, or I’ll be moving on to a new payroll provider.
Thanks!
Archie
PS – I’d really like to have paperless paystubs for people with direct deposit.

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Steve Jobs posts his thoughts on Flash

April 29, 2010

But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
via Thoughts on Flash.

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Youtube is updating the player page.

March 31, 2010

YouTube is about creating and watching the worlds biggest video collection; therefore, the design should make the video the star. To that end, the new look is more subdued, stripped down and simple than before. The design should help ease users into advanced features, while providing power users with all the functionality they want.
via YouTube [...]

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Storing and using Facebook user data is complicated

March 19, 2010

You could be forgiven for thinking that it is relatively simple matter to build a Facebook application or to integrate Facebook Connect into your website, request access to users’ profile information (and get it) and use that data for pretty much whatever you need to do with it. Unfortunately that is just not the way [...]

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