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My laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button, and it's a modern Dell. Naturally I use a real mouse when I'm on a desk, but remember that not everyone has a middle mouse button.
Try clicking both right and left touchpad-button on your laptop. At most (all?) laptops it will open the link just as if you had middle-mouse-clicked it.
Behold, the Octodex: http://octodex.github.com/
TIL about ContextMenu[1] and Facebox[2] in Jquery
[1] http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/jqueryContextMenu [2] http://defunkt.io/facebox/
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We do it so that when people zoom in on the site (using `⌘ + +` on a Mac) the image doesn't become pixelated and ugly. We do it with most other images, too.
Well this way it's pixelated and ugly by default. I don't think that's better.
I couldn't help but notice the actual logo wasn't one of the download options. Although inspecting the element tells us that the original logo is at https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/images/modules/h... I'm not entirely sure what Github was trying to accomplish with this, other than being a neat trick. EDIT: https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com/images/modules/h... for the non-hover logo. ;)
The official logo includes the Social Coding tagline.
Sidestepping the UX discussion here, there's an important moral here for startups:
Have a logo page with print-suitable copies of your logo. Actually, do one better and have the following logos:
1. Vector, raster (large), raster (small) in color
2. Vector, raster (large), raster (small) in monochrome
Anytime somebody wants to write about you, anytime you're sponsoring a conference, anytime you need stuff printed—that page will serve you well and let your t-shirt suppliers/conference organizers/curious journalists the thing they need without having to bug you. Until you get really big, misuse of your logo is unlikely. Just make it easy for people to get, like everything else about your company.
At Skills (http://skillsapp.com) we have a direct link in every page's footer and another on our about page.
Here's how I would improve this: The lightbox that opens up asks, "Looking for the GitHub logo?" But it doesn't let you answer no. It just presumes that your answer is yes, and supplies you with what it thinks you actually want (or, more cynically, what it wants you to want). I would suggest adding a "No thanks -- just let me right-click" link at the bottom. That link would close the lightbox and prevent it from reop…