huckfinnaafb

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

This is a fallacy listed, "the fallacy fallacy", first column second row on the left with the symbol of a fractal.

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

The character set is also optional if sent as an http header.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.2.2

And a supporting talk by paul irish http://paulirish.com/2011/primitives-html5-video/

huckfinnaafb

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Then Java, Chrome, Ruby, Rails, Bash, Curl, Python, Apache, Lynx, Scheme, Unity and dozens of other project names must infuriate you :).

huckfinnaafb

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

The difference being that Diablo 3 has an in-game real-money market, and more people playing the game means more people putting money into that market. The same strategy has been applied (successfully) with Team Fortress 2.

This is not a new idea, either. Free to play but in-game real-money purchases have been going strong with casual games since it became easy to send money over the net.

I'm not saying it will happen, but it's not an impossibility.

huckfinnaafb

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Creating software that helps whoever uses it is the only immediate requisite for being a useful programmer.

huckfinnaafb

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Ridiculous. Coming to your partner's defense is not a matter of gender, but one of loyalty. Reverse the genders in this case and the threat still applies.

huckfinnaafb

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

>I break about half of those rules and it works very, very well.

Can you go into more detail about which rules you disagree with or find unnecessary?

huckfinnaafb

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Working on a project with no set style standard, this article does a good job of voicing my frustrations. When tasked with inventing a new piece of the software, each designer, programmer, and manager tends to disregard all previous design decisions and create their own idea of what the project should look like. It's resulted in a totally inconsistent look, each page only bearing a passing semblance of the one before.

But a living style guide is worth nothing if the team members willfully choose to ignore it and pursue their own style agendas (and they are personal agendas, make no mistake). I've implemented some seriously ugly interfaces in the name of consistency, and the project is better for it.

The biggest hurdle is convincing management that this new flashy module simply does not mesh with the rest of the software. Design wants to impress, management is impressed, off to the nerds to implement it.

huckfinnaafb

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Some issues...

Even using the grid normally, it ends up using more horizontal space than on the viewport, forcing a horizontal scrollbar (Chrome 18).

Another problem: setting max-widths on units. Any proceeding units are handicapped by this and often just leave empty space to the right.

I also don't like the presence of three sets of classes when two would be appropriate. "ingrid" as the container, and "span-x" for each column division. And this is unavoidable, as you need to define "in-[parts]" in the container to even use the span-x classes. I understand that it's less work if you stick to equal parts, but this is not the majority use case in my experience.

I find the naming scheme awkward. "in-twos" and "in-thirds" instead of "in-halves" or "in-threes". Keep it consistent.

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All in all, I wouldn't recommend this to my mother.

I use Nicole Sullivan's snippet in her github project, https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/blob/master/core/grid/...

(demo: http://oocss.org/grids_docs.html)

And it's been damn bullet proof, being used in production code.

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Depending on the severity of your "ums", this is a facet "normal people" may need not perfect (or even need to work on).

This article is the minimum strategy, the 80% of a good presentation. Ums are a detractor but not as much a one as poor product knowledge or mechanical storytelling.

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

The entire "More" menu seems out of place. I would expect it to have options related to search, and a few items in there definitely are relevant, but the presence of the Privacy and Feedback links make it seem like things were thrown in there because there wasn't anywhere else for them to go.

Minor comment: the spacing between the top of the page and the top of the search bar is inequal to the spacing from the bottom of the search bar to the top of the content body. 2px top margin to the #search_form seems to balance that out.

Otherwise, looks great. Love what you've done with the place.

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

What was your motivation to use fixed pixel widths for grid sections instead of percentages?

"Do we really need yet another boilerplate? Yes."

Not entirely convincing :P

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Can anyone explain exactly why this is sinister? If the label is aware of the price they're selling the license at and buying the data, where is the unfair deception?

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Of course views/week is not necessarily the best measure of success. Those 5 views a week for 500 questions may have been excellent matches, whereas hundreds might have been poor matches. I admit though that it's more likely a numbers game.

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

There's good code, which is something that good products build their foundation on, and near perfect code, which can get in the way of building realistic solutions on time.

>Do you really need a full objet-oriented API right now? Do you really need to make a dozen interwoven classes, when it’s possible just a hundred or so lines in one class will do fine? Can you do all the same error checking and unit tests in a much smaller code base?

This is not necessarily "good code". That's code you think is good. Excessive or complex code is not good code, and I think the author should redefine his usage to what programmers sometimes perceive as good code.

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Not that it matters, at all. It's a gift, an endorsement.

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

It really doesn't look like variables to me. A variable would be a reference to a singularly defined property, such as a color or border style, not a hook to an entire list of properties. Certainly it could be used as a variable: that is, defining a class with a single property and hooking to that. But let's assume it's being used as a variable, why not write something like this?

    .data { 
        font-size:11px;
        font-family:Courier;
        color: #555;
    }
    .magic { 
        color: royalBlue;
    }

    <p class="data magic">Magical data</p>
    <p>Normal text with <span class="magic">magical <span class="data">data</span></span>.</p>

I've inherited .magic into .data without sacrificing the ability to use .magic and .data by itself. As long as you keep your CSS classes semantic and disperse them intelligently into the markup, it's really not an issue of making large scale changes with minimal effort. Of course, in practice, this isn't always the case, but I think adding more ways to inherit properties will increase complexity more than help write good styles.

I think the outcry for these features is a symptom of a poor understanding of the cascade and the language. There are much larger issues I'd like to see addressed, like the wide adoption of layout definitions which has better rules for defining vertical positioning and more fluid widths, both of which are pretty nightmarish without resorting to tables.

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

I'm torn on this. Inheritance already exists through assigning multiple classes and the cascade, and now it's impossible to use a "child" class without dragging its parent along with it unless you override "apply" inline.

Not terribly clear as to why we need specific functionality for inheritance when we already have an expressive way of defining it.

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Of course he might not do it at all.

huckfinnaafb

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but a site can't "be" HTML5. It can use technologies that require browsers which have implemented it from the HTML5 draft, but there is not a watershed to it.

I think the whole marketing fiasco has really warped the perception of what it means to use HTML5. Implemented HTML5 tech should be considered more of a supplemental library than a platform or language.

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