About the Apple vs. Samsung jury verdict: "I hate it," Wozniak told Bloomberg, "I don't think the decision of California will hold. And I don't agree with it - very small things I don't really call that innovative. I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody's technologies." From the mouth of a real inventor and engineer.
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Why sites have a mobile version of their site is always a big mistery to me anyway.
Don't these people know what Responsive Design is ?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_Web_Design
Member since:2011-01-28
Lennie,
"Why sites have a mobile version of their site is always a big mistery to me anyway.
Don't these people know what Responsive Design is ?:"
osnews has a mobile site too
http://mobile.osnews.com/
Within a moderate range, many CSS layouts will work ok. But sometimes mobile devices just don't have the space to display all the information we'd like to have displayed on the full version - and we don't want to compromise the full version to accommodate mobile users.
CSS media tags can help in theory. But even with CSS tags it can be extremely difficult to bridge the gab between what designers are asking for and what CSS renders.
Trust me on this, I've "fought" with clients on numerous occasions - at one time even on a detail as minute as where the word-wraps occurred. I'd iterate the futility in trying to adjust layouts for their particular screens since it might even be counter-productive for users in different resolutions/browsers/window sizes/etc. One client must have spent days aligning menus & sidebar elements to individual paragraphs on the home page (and then maintaining those alignments). He couldn't comprehend the difficulty of making this work everywhere and didn't care about the idiosyncrasies that HTML presents us with. Don't tell anyone...but some requests were so frustrating to comply with that I did the unthinkable; I took the text into Gimp and used the resulting PNG on the website. It made my brain haemorrhage, but alas he was happy.
Anyone else have html horror stories?
Edited 2012-09-13 20:28 UTC
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It's funny, but some sites such as ExtremeTech have horrendous mobile versions - in fact, ET often insists on centering the gutter, leaving half a column of text on each side, on my iPad. I have to partially slide the column over and hold it with my finger to read. Insane.
They have a "Use Desktop Version" link that switches to the desktop URL - which detects my iPad, and switches back to the mobile version.
Happily, my N900 is NOT detected, and so displays the site perfectly. So I end up switching to my tiny, ancient phablet to manually enter and read links found on my 10", latest OS rev iPad.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and one heck of a lot more annoying!
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
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It's not. It's the mobile version and on a desktop it looks quite bad