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Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by Confusion »

smanek wrote: post #30
timdorr wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rgba() colors, the text-indent: -9999em's, or the -webkit-transform? Panic's actually been doing that on their blog too: http://www.panic.com/blog/ But still cool stuff :) Some UI issues: - The front page acts weird if you have it any less than full width. Things get pushed around in a weird way, including getting pushed off the page. But this is really just a nit-pick, because the important things stay on the pa…

Do you have a source on Twitter disabling basic auth in June? That would be pretty huge, and the API documentation says: While we have no plans in the near term to require OAuth, new applications should consider it best practice to develop for OAuth. [...] There are still a number of archetectural use cases to work through before we consider the deprication of Basic Auth. Before any changes begin to happen, we will d…

Wow, as a non-native English speaker, I think those are some really bad spelling failures.

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by est »

timdorr wrote: post #23
Sam_Odio wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope - it was designed in house by Michael Yuan. Very talented guy. There are a couple CSS hacks in there that don't exist anywhere else on the 'net. Try to find them!

The rgba() colors, the text-indent: -9999em's, or the -webkit-transform? Panic's actually been doing that on their blog too: http://www.panic.com/blog/ But still cool stuff :) Some UI issues: - The front page acts weird if you have it any less than full width. Things get pushed around in a weird way, including getting pushed off the page. But this is really just a nit-pick, because the important things stay on the pa…

http://www.panic.com/goods/

This is the most awesome shopping cart I've ever seen online!

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by moultano »

timdorr wrote: post #23
Sam_Odio wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope - it was designed in house by Michael Yuan. Very talented guy. There are a couple CSS hacks in there that don't exist anywhere else on the 'net. Try to find them!

The rgba() colors, the text-indent: -9999em's, or the -webkit-transform? Panic's actually been doing that on their blog too: http://www.panic.com/blog/ But still cool stuff :) Some UI issues: - The front page acts weird if you have it any less than full width. Things get pushed around in a weird way, including getting pushed off the page. But this is really just a nit-pick, because the important things stay on the pa…

What's the purpose of the text-indent: -9999em?

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

#34

Post by jazzychad »

smanek wrote: post #30
timdorr wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rgba() colors, the text-indent: -9999em's, or the -webkit-transform? Panic's actually been doing that on their blog too: http://www.panic.com/blog/ But still cool stuff :) Some UI issues: - The front page acts weird if you have it any less than full width. Things get pushed around in a weird way, including getting pushed off the page. But this is really just a nit-pick, because the important things stay on the pa…

Do you have a source on Twitter disabling basic auth in June? That would be pretty huge, and the API documentation says: While we have no plans in the near term to require OAuth, new applications should consider it best practice to develop for OAuth. [...] There are still a number of archetectural use cases to work through before we consider the deprication of Basic Auth. Before any changes begin to happen, we will d…

Yes, Basic Auth is ending in June. Most recently documented today: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow...

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by whalesalad »

moultano wrote: post #33
timdorr wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The rgba() colors, the text-indent: -9999em's, or the -webkit-transform? Panic's actually been doing that on their blog too: http://www.panic.com/blog/ But still cool stuff :) Some UI issues: - The front page acts weird if you have it any less than full width. Things get pushed around in a weird way, including getting pushed off the page. But this is really just a nit-pick, because the important things stay on the pa…

What's the purpose of the text-indent: -9999em?

One of the ways that you can create a good looking button or clickable image is to set the background image of an element so that you can take advantage of features like :hover pseudo-classes. Sometimes you don't want the text to appear inside of that element, like if the text for your button is inside the image. The solution is using a huge text indent number (-9999, to take it off of the left side of the page). It's basically a trick. An em is just a measurement, equivalent to the width of the letter M.

You'll notice sometimes when clicking a link that you'll see the dotted outline text extend all the way to the left side of the page. That's because the text inside of that element is actually way far off 9999em's to the left of your display. Like a bad act getting pulled off-stage by the big long hook around the neck.

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by nkh »

Sam_Odio wrote: post #10
a123b wrote: post #6

Divvyshot, can you guys give a shout out to your designer? Love your site's design and curious if the designer is available for more clients :) EDIT: I see it was designed in-house by Sam. Darn. Excellent team

Nope - it was designed in house by Michael Yuan. Very talented guy. There are a couple CSS hacks in there that don't exist anywhere else on the 'net. Try to find them!

I would like to pass along congratulations to Michael Yuan. This site is beautiful and inspiring. Would you guys mind sharing the tools you used to produce it, and how long it took?

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by maxklein »

JeffJenkins wrote: post #26

This looks cool, but the website is a good example of design ignoring "the fold" causing confusion. I spent about 30 seconds staring at the three tiny blocks of text below the menu options before I realized that I could scroll down.

Me too. On a MacBook Air resolution, clicking on the button causes absolutely no change, because the change happens below the fold. I thought the page was broken.

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by maxklein »

I liked it enough to sign up for it, but once I did, I clicked on puppies. After browsing a bit, I decided I wanted to upload my own photos. I started doing so, and only right at the end did it somehow become clear that my photos where going to go into the puppies stream.

Also, event thing confuses me. Do I have to add all my photos to an even or create an event for each of my 5000 photos or am I not supposed to upload my photos and only upload photos from a particular event. Really not clear to me.

Re: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-drop support)

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Post by Murkin »

timdorr wrote: post #23
Sam_Odio wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope - it was designed in house by Michael Yuan. Very talented guy. There are a couple CSS hacks in there that don't exist anywhere else on the 'net. Try to find them!

The rgba() colors, the text-indent: -9999em's, or the -webkit-transform? Panic's actually been doing that on their blog too: http://www.panic.com/blog/ But still cool stuff :) Some UI issues: - The front page acts weird if you have it any less than full width. Things get pushed around in a weird way, including getting pushed off the page. But this is really just a nit-pick, because the important things stay on the pa…

+1 on text bellow buttons. Very annoying to have to hover them all too see what can be done.

Generally, there is too much hovering required. Reminds me old quests, where you had to hover over everything to see if some element accepts actions.

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