@MishaScholte No worries. Roger also gave a good response too. I'm interested to see what else other people think though. I've changed my mind once on that, it's possible I could be persuaded to change my mind again!
I've checked it on a bigger monitor. Still only shows the first few paraghraphs of content, mixed in with all the other crap links / sharing / registeration / ads everywhere. Sheesh.
@JohnGB I've found Andreas Schildbach's Bitcoin Wallet to be a good inspiration. The main screen on handsets is a kind of info panel above a transaction list. It's open-source, so you can look at the layouts too.
I'm in the process of developing a website that is reminiscent of an old CRT monitor. To achieve the effect, I've taken an image that consists of a horizontal black line and a white line repeating both on the vertical and horizontal axis. The image opacity to achieve this effect has a very low ...
Also, what is it with quetsions recently about creating apps to mimic CRT / DOS displays? We've had a bunch recently. I hope this isn't an indication of how future applications are going to be styled. Retro is OK for clothes, not for web design.
@BenBrocka I think they are too. The screenshot does say it can't contain 'password, admin or other common words'. I guess swear words are some of the other common words.
@JohnGB The fix isn't going to be related to improving things for the user. The OP doesn't like how his design renders on some screens, so he will have to tweak the CSS / Design / PS image to rectify that. It's not a UX issue he has though.
Rumor: Samsung is going to announce the Galaxy Mega, 2 phones, one with 5.8", one with 6.3". Better not place any important buttons on the top left! Impossible to reach
It gets a bit confusing with the Galaxy, the Galaxy S, the Galaxy Note, Galaxy Mini, Galaxy Y, Galaxy Tab, not forgetting about the Omnia's, TouchWiz and I probably forgot a few
I have a middle-aged aunt who knows I write Android software. At her last work Christmas party, she asked if anyone there had an Android phone. Nobody said they did, but when they checked, it turned out six people did (but didn't know that's what it was).
It was doubly annoying because we wanted to test the site on an iPad so asked for volunteers who had iPads. This person turned up with a Kindle Fire HD and genuinely though it was what we wanted. iPad=Tablet I guess. Interesting to find that out, but slightly annoying.
Are there any windows Markdown editors? Rather than just doing it in word and having it all styled up MS-Wordy, or writing in notepad / Sublime and having everything just text, does anyone know of any alternatives?
There was one article about some dictionary trying to include the word 'ungoogleable' in there, Google requested it refer specifically to Google, so they company just removed the word rather than get into all that legal confusion.
@JonW Not quite...since the vast majority of people actually use Google it's pretty hard to find someone that says "I'll google this excitedly opens Bing"
I just want something to write my specs in that isn't Word, but that I can then paste into Word once i'm done just to do the final tidying up. I don't want all the formatting hassles that you get with actually writing in word though. That MarkDownPad seems pretty good though, might investimigate that.
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When it comes to a responsive design: should users still be able to zoom in or out?
We are currently working on a responsive design and one of our testers found it awkward that he wasn't able to zoom in or out. When I check some responsive designs (such as Boston Globe, Polygon and Currys.co.uk)...
@MishaScholte I think it is more a function of views. Once a question gets around 1k views you start to see a big increase in bad answers from new users
@MishaScholte Not really your fault I wouldn't say. It hit the top Hot Question across all the StackExchange sites, that means it might have also been posted elsewhere outside SE and attacts some... less than perfect answers.
Also, RWD is quite a hot topic. Questions on that tend to get pretty popular (speaking from experience!)
We were trying to decide what should happen if someone manually zooms in but then rotates the phone to landscape. Should it stay zoomed in, should it zoom out to full.. what should happen?
Never really got to the bottom of it, to be honest.
Zooming is common on mobile because sites aren't designed for it; you need to zoom, generally, you don't want to zoom around. Mobile sites are supposed to not need any form of zooming, and often disable zooming.
It seems against convention to allow zooming for mobile sites; they're supposed to b...
@JohnGB The reasoning for the answers is identical. IT really doesn't matter which wording you pick. "mobile optimized" vs "some other design which fills the full width of the device and no more" is effectively the same
@MishaScholte Yes, I actually had one. And the interface was great; clearly a predecessor to Metro
Though while I like the Metro style it seems to carry bad luck with it
Windows Phone and Win 8 haven't quite gone the way of the Zune but I dont' have nearly as high hopes as I used to and I definitely don't plan on using either any time soon
@JohnGB IMO the questions aren't really unique either. They're basically the same situation; web design that fills the whole available screen rather than using a fixed width
The Zune never really got any traction here in the Netherlands. Mainly because it wasn't really available. However, I do think that Microsoft is going in the right direction with the whole 'metro-thingy'. I like the interface of Windows Phone a lot, but I'm not a big fan of Metro on a desktop. But like you, I hold my reserves. As long as Microsoft doesn't allow vendors to diverge with their phones, they won't be so eager to jump on the metro-wagon
@MishaScholte Yeah, I'm probably biased because I first used metro (not counting the Zune) on a PC. Was a touch screen PC too though, and Metro was just always in the way. It's probably fine on a phone but at this point I'm sticking with Android
But Apple also need to fix iOS from the developers' perspective
Find a bug. No problem. A week or two in review before you can roll out a fix.
Submit a content update, and an app that has been fine for the last 20 updates gets rejected because they want you to have some feature that was never there before.
Absolutely. I can understand it from the perspective of a user. The app store is a pretty safe environment, even more with the couple of changes from about two months ago. But for a developer it's horrible
In our previous update we had a tiny bug which was helped in like ten minutes, but we still had to go through the entire process. Of course, it should have been caught by QA, but somehow it slipped through
Do you think so? Recently I've read an article (I don't remember exactly) but it stated that one iOS user is worth 14 or 16 Android users (revenue-wise). If that's true, it is an interesting platform to put a product on
mashable.com/2013/03/06/android-no-cool-apps I can only find this, but Mashable isn't really the best resource. I could swear that I've read a similar article referring to a study
No offense taken. I never completely believe such articles/studies, but there always has to be some form of truth in it. When I look to my own friends, the ones who own an iOS device do buy a lot more apps than my friends who have Android. My friends with Android always flash their rom and just download the .apk's.
But, then again, all my friends with Android are more techsavvy and the ones with iOS just 'want to own a cool device' and are too lazy to preform a jailbreak so they can install apps for free
I'm in the process of developing a website that is reminiscent of an old CRT monitor. To achieve the effect, I've taken an image that consists of a horizontal black line and a white line repeating both on the vertical and horizontal axis. The image opacity to achieve this effect has a very low ...
I approved an edit to an answer that was made not by the user who gave the answer but by the user who asked the question and accepted the answer.
Was this the correct action, or should I have declined the edit and suggested the user edit their question?
The edit in question was a clarification ...
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