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Maybe it needs a little more work. I've got a "Unhandled DOMException: SYNTAX_ERR" in jQuery. And "plugins.js" and "main.js" are loaded twice.

Also: I'm on Opera and get a lot of CSS errors. Some are strange: "-o-opacity is an unknown property".


The jQuery-related error seems to be an upstream bug - http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1513672

I don't see plugins.js and main.js loading twice. And that CSS warning can only come from other tabs you had open as we don't include any `-o-` prefixed code in the CSS.


I think these are all Opera quirks. It is saying there are unhandled exceptions when all the ones it identified are inside a try/catch. It looks the -o- warnings are coming from the internal feature detects that we use in jQuery 1.8, we really can't avoid those without browser sniffing.


Some days ago I posted this link: http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html These word sum it up for me:

"In making this statement about their awareness of past work, I am not criticizing Westerman, the iPhone, or Apple. It is simply good practice and good scholarship to know the literature and do one's homework when embarking on a new product. What I am pointing out, however, is that "new" technologies - like multi-touch - do not grow out of a vacuum. While marketing tends to like the "great invention" story, real innovation rarely works that way. In short, the evolution of multi-touch is a text-book example of what I call "the long-nose of innovation.""

The link also provides a nice overview of the history of touch.


Why don't browsers support TeX anyway? Maybe it could even be embedded in a HTML page, like SVG.

   <!doctype html>
   <tex>
   Hello, World
   \bye
   </tex>


There is actually an XML version of TeX: http://getfo.org/texml/


I always thought it was an obvious chose given the people who started this (academics).


Would you ever think about patenting a double touch interaction when you were the first to implement a double click action on a touchscreen? I think these things are so obvious I would even be ashamed to call them my innovation.


If you think it's obvious, Have you ever tried to double click the screen or pinch an image on your old Palm Pilot hoping the size would change?


Well the Palm Pilot isn't multitouch so ofcourse you can't do a pinch there. But double click just works out of the box on almost all devices when an existing OS is used.

I think you should give this a read: http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html and notice these words: "What I am pointing out, however, is that "new" technologies - like multi-touch - do not grow out of a vacuum."


This note is very clever. A lot of "fact" are just wrong but they are written in a very convincing manner so that nobody will check them.

"sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right" Well Steve Jobs liked to quote something like this: "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." Jobs was clearly spreading the message that Apple liked to steal mastering the "borrowed" product making it into a product of their own. Apple made no secret about stealing design from Braun and Sony. Jobs had great respect for those companies. And I think the same applies to Samsung. They have great respect to Apple (although today that may have changed) and mastered the iPhone into an even greater product than the iPhone.

"We value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth." Well they may be the best looking products on earth for some, but they are absolutely not the best products. Apple mouses look great and are great to obtain RSI. MacOs is looking great but I can't get as productive with it as with Windows or Linux. The Mac Mini is looking great but I can buy twice the power for the same price. Most Apple products are looking great but why not supply a standard connector? Well we know the reason for that one. And now they are called the most valuable company of today.

Yes Samsung did look very closely to Apple's products but so did Apple to other products.

We all copy!

-edit1- Brown -> Braun ;) thanks.

-edit2- I also was thinking about a tablet I once bought. This was a complete copy of the iPad. Even the box had the same white design. But Apple didn't go after that company. Why? Because it was a peace of crap. You had to break the tablet before the screen became responsive and the battery didn't last 10 minutes.


>Brown

I'm guessing you mean Braun and, yes, Apple is very obviously influenced by the aesthetic Braun popularized.


On Google Search: Options -> Search settings -> Languages

There you can change the language(s) of your search result. I think you can mark up to 10 languages.


Except it still gives me mostly bad German results for technical queries if I don't completely remove German there.


Google provides those settings but it seems to randomly ignore them or at least I can't discern a pattern.


It's not randomly. In work I use Iceweasel for private gmail (and Chrome for company gmail), where I have set Results per page to 100 and chose to Never show Instant results long time ago. It simply does not work!

I go to google.com, start typing and Google starts showing me some instant results and hitting Enter gives me only 10 results per page. (The same settings are respected for non-private gmail in Chrome, though.)


Just use SVG for logo's and icons. I use it all the time. They even render better than reduced PNG logo's.


They even render better than reduced PNG logo's.

Unfortunately, SVG hasn’t been well supported on Android until quite recently, and likewise for IE.

Also, you still have the problem that SVG doesn’t support hinting, so for small icons its value is limited.


Yes. Super cars are not best selling cars.


Just curious: why isn't the making of vitamin D by the human skin called photosynthesis?


Photosynthesis is predominantly powered by red and blue visible light. The manufacture of Vitamin D in our skin is triggered by UV. Also in humans Vitamin D is not an energy source, unlike the sugars commonly produced by photosynthesis in plants.


Thanks. This article is also clear about the differences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochemistry


Nice, I did not know this was possible. But I'm currently on Windows Server 2008, and the invert option is only available in the magnifier screen.


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