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Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js

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Re: Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js

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Post by railsjedi »

Perfect article and explanation. After having bought into Ember a couple months ago and using it heavily, it's been really hard to express to others why it feels so revolutionary.

Ember really changes JS development in ways that the other frameworks don't even attempt. And in a way this hurts it in the perception of developers, since it more often than not is just tagged as "too complicated" or "too much to learn".

The more great articles like this, and I think there'll be a solid chance Ember catches on in a big way the same way Rails did. With 1.0rc, the tech seems to be solid enough now and it just needs a push on the other stuff (education, marketing, etc). And most importantly: some more successful Ember apps out in the wild (I'm working on that one).

Re: Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js

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Post by fusiongyro »

Here's my petition for the site to join the contrast rebellion:

http://contrastrebellion.com/

The page is basically unreadable in FF 7.0.1 on RHEL 5.3. I realize light grey on white with a really thin font is dead sexy on your Mac (probably looks great on my home computer as well) but it's useless to me at work.

Re: Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js

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Post by arnarbi »

fusiongyro wrote: post #4

Here's my petition for the site to join the contrast rebellion: http://contrastrebellion.com/ The page is basically unreadable in FF 7.0.1 on RHEL 5.3. I realize light grey on white with a really thin font is dead sexy on your Mac (probably looks great on my home computer as well) but it's useless to me at work.

I'm on a pretty nice mac, and it is basically unreadable without either zooming a lot or using some css switcher.

Re: Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js

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Post by majormajor »

fusiongyro wrote: post #4

Here's my petition for the site to join the contrast rebellion: http://contrastrebellion.com/ The page is basically unreadable in FF 7.0.1 on RHEL 5.3. I realize light grey on white with a really thin font is dead sexy on your Mac (probably looks great on my home computer as well) but it's useless to me at work.

IME light-gray on white actually tends to be more readable on PCs than Macs due to the still-rather-different default gamma setup/color profiles. Cheaper PC screens especially often default to darker, bluer shifts.

I normally hate comments that simply criticize something not related to the content of the article, but in this case I found the lack of contrast made the article basically unreadable (on a MBP, using either the internal screen or a nice external display).

Re: Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js

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Post by railsjedi »

adamnemecek wrote: post #5

Speaking of which, can anyone recommend good ember.js resources and/or open source projects? Something that is not a todo list would be great.

pangratz has created an awesome example dashboard app (along with source) http://code418.com/ember.js-dashboard/. He also wrote up a dev blog series on it: http://code418.com/

Re: Advice On & Instruction in The Use of Ember.js

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Post by natrius »

fusiongyro wrote: post #4

Here's my petition for the site to join the contrast rebellion: http://contrastrebellion.com/ The page is basically unreadable in FF 7.0.1 on RHEL 5.3. I realize light grey on white with a really thin font is dead sexy on your Mac (probably looks great on my home computer as well) but it's useless to me at work.

Readability link: http://www.readability.com/articles/3eiyua1p
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