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Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#91

That's a totally odd font choice they are using. Check out the "d", the "b" and the "p" - looks horrible in Firefox 13! [1] Oh, and it looks terrible in Internet Explorer 8, as the layout is completely out of whack. [2] 1. http://static.inky.ws/image/2290/image.jpg 2. http://static.inky.ws/image/2291/image.jpg

Wow, bizarre. It looks nothing like that in Chrome.

http://i.imgur.com/Ny3fo.png

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#94
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You should use the feedback button on the right!

Oh man, I almost choked on my water. I've got some feedback: don't absolute position annoying and generic elements that distract me from your product(s). .. that being said, it is pretty cute when it's shrunk down for mobile.

This isn't the website Microsoft uses to tell you about its products, it's a preview.

The only reason this site is visible is for that feedback button, which will be read and acted on before it turns in to Microsoft.com

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#95

Microsoft now has, IMO, the most interesting design language of any of the big tech players. I guess it remains to be seen if there will be any reward for them in the market for this but, as a developer, I find this a lot more appealing than anything Google or Apple are doing and C# kicks the shit out of Java or Obj-C.

Java runs everywhere. C# runs only on M$ plateforms…

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#96
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Any idea how that's working? I've never seen image resizing work that well!

Setting `img { max-width: 100%; }` by default and scale it to `150%` when viewport reach certain threshold (for mobile). For the former, it will beautifully scale to the containing div size, for the latter, you can set outer div to `overflow: hidden` and left/right side will be cut off giving the image a square-ish feel.

after scaling the max-width to 150%, they did a margin-left:-40% to center the image

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#97

Microsoft now has, IMO, the most interesting design language of any of the big tech players. I guess it remains to be seen if there will be any reward for them in the market for this but, as a developer, I find this a lot more appealing than anything Google or Apple are doing and C# kicks the shit out of Java or Obj-C.

I totally agree about the design language. I work on a Mac most of the day and love my iPhone, but damn does Metro look nice. And it's great seeing that come across with their other products as well.

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#98
post #95

Microsoft now has, IMO, the most interesting design language of any of the big tech players. I guess it remains to be seen if there will be any reward for them in the market for this but, as a developer, I find this a lot more appealing than anything Google or Apple are doing and C# kicks the shit out of Java or Obj-C.

Java runs everywhere. C# runs only on M$ plateforms…

There's Mono + Qt bindings.

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#99
post #95

Microsoft now has, IMO, the most interesting design language of any of the big tech players. I guess it remains to be seen if there will be any reward for them in the market for this but, as a developer, I find this a lot more appealing than anything Google or Apple are doing and C# kicks the shit out of Java or Obj-C.

Java runs everywhere. C# runs only on M$ plateforms…

Not true: http://www.mono-project.com

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#100
post #95

Microsoft now has, IMO, the most interesting design language of any of the big tech players. I guess it remains to be seen if there will be any reward for them in the market for this but, as a developer, I find this a lot more appealing than anything Google or Apple are doing and C# kicks the shit out of Java or Obj-C.

Java runs everywhere. C# runs only on M$ plateforms…

I use Mono on a daily basis. It's a mature full featured cross platform .NET implementation.
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