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Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

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Post by shawndellysse »

Foy wrote: post #38
gilrain wrote: post #6

Press chirp. Press rotate three times. Press multiply many times. Press ledge. Result: many Twitter birds beak-planting into the ground and farting in surprise.

Press multiply ~30 times. Press disco. Now spam rotate. :) Disco party!

Load the page, enter this in the address bar:

javascript:setInterval(function () { $('#btn_rotate').click(); }, 400);setInterval(function () { $('#btn_multiply').click(); }, 300);$('#btn_disco').click(); setInterval(function () { $('#btn_disco').click(); $('#btn_disco').click(); }, 300);

Epileptic Psychedelic dance party!

Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

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Post by xiaoma »

eridius wrote: post #45
xiaoma wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Android has supported it since v 2.2 (at least 3 years since HTC Hero), and I've used it on Samsung, Motorola and HTC devices. Blackberries also have a deep implementation of AIR.

Are there actually any higher-end phones or tablets made by anyone other than Apple that don't support flash? I'm genuinely curious since I love to play on kongregate.com during commutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG2WYOkkp_g https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.flas...

Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

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Post by Zr40 »

roryokane wrote: post #36
twodayslate wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scrollbars - Crazy right?

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.

The scroll bar also briefly appears when switching tabs.

Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

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Post by stephen_g »

xiaoma wrote: post #52
eridius wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just mobile safari. Mobile in general doesn't support Flash.

Android has supported it since v 2.2 (at least 3 years since HTC Hero), and I've used it on Samsung, Motorola and HTC devices. Blackberries also have a deep implementation of AIR. Are there actually any higher-end phones or tablets made by anyone other than Apple that don't support flash? I'm genuinely curious since I love to play on kongregate.com during commutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG2WYOkkp_g https://p…

Flash player for mobile was discontinued last year [1]. So, yeah, Flash won't be around on tablets or phones for long.

1. http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/11/flash-to-focus-...

Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

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Post by fnulp »

prodigal_erik wrote: post #49
badusername wrote: post #43

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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.

Exactly. People are free to use stuff that gets broken for the sake of slickness, and people who want to get stuff done are free to ignore them.

Not that the site isn't broken, too. I mean, how hard would it be to make it not fixed width, right? But why do that when you can just throw it together, "go viral", next.. I find it real hard to call it "design", or even craftmanship, or even a website :P But then again that applies to Twitter too, so it's all good. To each their own.

Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

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Post by drostie »

mark_story wrote: post #33
hammock wrote: post #27

It 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?

No now you're justifying 'the fold' and it tyranny over webdesign :(

"The fold" is important in many places; games and other web applications should indeed be visible from the start. It's true, we have now scroll bars and scroll wheels and scroll areas on our touchpads, so it's not as important as it was in press, but it surely does need to be considered. It always upsets me to see news sites which have too much crap at the top of the screen getting between me and the thing I came there to read.

In this case, you are simply wrong about the application of "the fold", though. The point is, this is a simple web page containing a link and an application. The application is large enough that it cannot be reasonably guessed to live in the top 400-500 pixels of the screen. So there should have been a visual cue to distinguish the application, perhaps a box around it, so that people who have not yet seen the buttons at the bottom will scroll down and see them. Right now you have no idea where the application resides, and that is the complaint.

Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

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Post by StavrosK »

sbornia wrote: post #44
handelaar wrote: post #37

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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.

Well, except when it does, it seems...

Re: Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

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Post by xiaoma »

stephen_g wrote: post #56
xiaoma wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Android has supported it since v 2.2 (at least 3 years since HTC Hero), and I've used it on Samsung, Motorola and HTC devices. Blackberries also have a deep implementation of AIR. Are there actually any higher-end phones or tablets made by anyone other than Apple that don't support flash? I'm genuinely curious since I love to play on kongregate.com during commutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG2WYOkkp_g https://p…

Flash player for mobile was discontinued last year [1]. So, yeah, Flash won't be around on tablets or phones for long. 1. http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/11/flash-to-focus-...

Actually, the player hasn't been discontinued at all. It's still supported and bugfixes are still released. The decision was not to develop new versions in the future and instead to focus on flash apps via AIR. As of now, Android and Blackberry both support the newest version-- version 11, with 3D hardware acceleration.

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/11/flash-to-focus-...

In a generation or two, flash may indeed be "legacy" for mobile browser clients. That has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the web market or the "mobile in general doesn't support flash" claim, which is verifiably false.

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