Once upon a time, when the World Wide Web had barely outgrown its blinking, “NEW”-shouting, and “Under Construction” infancy, there were splash screens. From Splash Screens to Home Pages A splash screen was a showy entrance to a website or to a section of a website. It was a way for the site owner to […]
Web Browsers and Standards of Perfection
For web developers and designers who, sometimes, push the limits of their tools… It’s old news that different web browsers sometimes have different ways of interpreting web-site code. That’s more true when it comes to newer features of the evolving coding languages, and to our complex or novel uses of them. In all except pixel-perfect […]
Clicks ‘n Taps
Heads-up, copyeditors: in some contexts, “click” and “tap” are in the process of becoming synonymous. We expect that to continue and to bleed into non-technical contexts. “Touch,” however, is almost never appropriate when a more-specific verb is accurate; it’s too lingering for a tap or click, but too short and/or imprecise for a press-and-hold gesture. […]
Of Hype and “The Cloud”
Shadows and silver linings Someone1 on Google+ mentioned: “The hype around cloud reminds me of the hype around outsourcing or programming without programmers. These are marketing concepts, not technical solutions.” To which we replied, as follows. Yes, more hype than usual. Plus, perhaps consumers need a reminder that the model before personal computers was that […]
