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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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
Member since:2007-09-22
Well, maybe you can tell me this:
It's getting better, right ?
We have customers asking to improve their sites to work on mobile. They don't seem to be interrested in a mobile site either.
Do you know why ? I think it is because they are smartphone users themselves. So they are starting to get it.
Member since:2006-12-05
http://mobile.osnews.com/
Which I can NEVER get working on my cell phone (Opera Mobile on stock Android 2.2.2; LG Optimus V). I have to go into Opera's settings and tell it to masquerade as a "desktop" browser just to be able to view OSNews, and then go back into the settings to turn it back to "mobile" so every other web site loads the correct (mobile) versions of their pages. And sometimes even that won't work. It's annoying because OSNews is one of the few sites I would would want to check throughout the day, but I often just say "screw it" and don't even bother until I get home on my desktop machine. No hassle on a regular desktop web browser.
Edited 2012-09-13 21:32 UTC
Member since:2007-04-25
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!
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!
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
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"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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2007-09-22
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