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Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
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Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
What resolution? It seems fine on my 11 inch Air @ 1366x768.
1280x800... i didnt have safari maximized but it was a pretty big window already. Even after maximizing it the follow button was still below the fold, when clearly this entire website was designed to be viewed in one window.
Here's what I see on a maximized browser window at 1280x800, without modifying zoom at all: http://i.imgur.com/2yKz8.png
Do you have a lot of toolbars on your browser or something? Huge font size?
Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
#43It took me about five minutes to figure out what was the point of this website. I'm on a 13in Macbook Pro and didn't realize you could scroll down to see the buttons. Does it bother anyone else when people design websites for tall screens that most people on laptops just don't have?
Scrollbars - Crazy right?
You can't justify poor design by saying that he could have use scrollbars. It is clearly the designer's fault to not have thought of this.
Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
On Mac OS X Lion, in Safari, scroll bars are hidden by default. They are only shown when you start to scroll, using either the arrow keys or the two-finger-drag gesture. So if the page looks complete and you don't try to scroll because of that, you have no indication that there is more to the page. Edit: the scroll bar is also shown briefly when the page finishes loading.
Reasonable people would, in my humble opinion, consider that a failing of your insane OS, and not of the producer of the web page.
It feels pretty natural though, when you get used to it. Doesn't bother at all. OSX's scrolling I mean.
Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
#45Doesn't work in Mobile Safari. (Does it use legacy technologies like Flash or Java?)
Java and flash each have current install bases of 1,000,000,000+ devices and are adding devices at a rate that far outstrips mobile safari. Neither are shiny, cool technologies, but they're not "legacy technologies" yet.
It's not just mobile safari. Mobile in general doesn't support Flash.
Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
What resolution? It seems fine on my 11 inch Air @ 1366x768.
1280x800... i didnt have safari maximized but it was a pretty big window already. Even after maximizing it the follow button was still below the fold, when clearly this entire website was designed to be viewed in one window.
I don't see the buttons on Chrome before scrolling on my 13" MBP, but since I'm stubbornly sticking to 10.6 I did get a nice big scrollbar to let me know to scroll down. :)
Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
#47If you rotate the bird 180 degrees and add the chirp, you get a farting bird.
Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter is well served to defend their trademark against dilution, perhaps, but I'm not sure that the law requires they protect it against bad design.
I'm pretty sure that these guidelines are exactly about protecting against dilution. I think the logic is as follows--the actual Twitter logo (and, consequently, trademark) is not just a bird, it's that specific bird, in that orientation and that color. Allowing anybody to do anything with it would dilute it. And so they must protect against this. For what it's worth, I've certainly seen documents like this from othe…
WordPress is certainly an example: http://wordpress.org/about/logos/
Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Scrollbars - Crazy right?
You can't justify poor design by saying that he could have use scrollbars. It is clearly the designer's fault to not have thought of this.
WorldWideWeb had scroll bars. Since day one of the web, browsers have been expected to gracefully handle documents with too much content to easily render on one screen. It's not reasonable for every author worldwide to have to simultaneously munge all their documents just because one browser maintainer woke up thinking it would look cooler for you not to know if there's more to read.