Definition of a review, by ArsTechnica : http://imgur.com/RdohV
Notsureifpraiseorcriticism
Neither do I.. truth lies in between I guess. Rare are articles that long, which I value, but it can be a bit "overwhelming" at first.
John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
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Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#32Definition of a review, by ArsTechnica : http://imgur.com/RdohV
http://www.anandtech.com/ also has some pretty awesome reviews (for hardware).
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#33Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#34Definition of a review, by ArsTechnica : http://imgur.com/RdohV
While they aren't usually quite this long, Ars Technica is known for its excellent reviews and feature stories.
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#35This is almost the best part of every OS X release.
I have to agree - I love all the technical details in these articles so much that I used to read them in detail long before I switched to the Mac... It was probably the biggest thing that convinced me to change (that, and I wanted a laptop that didn't look and feel like cheap plasticy rubbish, which apart from Apple products were few and far between then).
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#36Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
> or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages? You can get Ars Premier, buy the ebook or use some sort of stitching reader. Not that I have a problem clicking through 25 pages when each page holds 1000 words and is a self-contained section or a pair of sections . Siracusa pays close attention to pagination in order to pace the article, in my experience of his reviews the page breaks are ac…
His point about long scrolling web pages isn't actually valid. The way to do it is to have a table of contents, and fragment identifiers for each section.
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#37Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?
> or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages? You can get Ars Premier, buy the ebook or use some sort of stitching reader. Not that I have a problem clicking through 25 pages when each page holds 1000 words and is a self-contained section or a pair of sections . Siracusa pays close attention to pagination in order to pace the article, in my experience of his reviews the page breaks are ac…
Apparently someone needs to do a 25-page review of the W3C HTML spec and link to the section on the Anchor tag for him.
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#38Marco made a review of John Siracusa review ;) http://www.marco.org/2012/07/25/siracusa-mountain-lion-revie...
Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
#39The review doesn't say how long it takes to install once downloaded. Is this a lunch break install or a "wait-till-evening" installation?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages? You can get Ars Premier, buy the ebook or use some sort of stitching reader. Not that I have a problem clicking through 25 pages when each page holds 1000 words and is a self-contained section or a pair of sections . Siracusa pays close attention to pagination in order to pace the article, in my experience of his reviews the page breaks are ac…
His point about long scrolling web pages isn't actually valid. The way to do it is to have a table of contents, and fragment identifiers for each section.
> His point about long scrolling web pages isn't actually valid.
His point is perfectly valid, it's about mnemonics.
> The way to do it is to have a table of contents, and fragment identifiers for each section.
Considering his reviews have both table of contents and fragment identifiers, I'm going to go ahead and assert he knows about those.
That does not help remember where you are in the article.