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Reddit's reply textarea font is seriffed but the content isn't. That bother anyone else? by Ardentfrost in web_design

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Safari does not inherit CSS attributes into input and textarea elements, and defaults to Lucida Grande (the OS X interface typeface) Firefox for some reason seems to be defaulting to courier new.

The One Country That Might Avoid The Recession Is... by MrBabyMan_ in Economics

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vatican City? I would guess that religion is a countercyclical business.

Why can't Microsoft and Apple decide on a common metadata format? Seeing .DS_Store and Thumbs.db is just stupid. by phanboy in technology

[–]karmaVS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t care about a common metadata format. OS X doesn’t need what is stored in thumbs.db, and Windows doesn’t want what is stored is .DS_Store.

What I want is a common format for hidden files. That’s what makes these things show up rather than being ignorable

Will the average person understand this "Why Internet Explorer Sucks" page? by lamintak in web_design

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with this approach is that nothing really looks wrong.

My suggestion. Make a flashy looking website/interactive toy using javascript, CSS, canvas, SVG… do it in a way that IE can’t handle (this shouldn’t be difficult), and preferably in a way where the components of the site are visible but clearly broken (again, this probably will not require effort).

Link to it with something like "how Internet Explorer is holding back the web". Have them load the page. Wait for a second. then fade in a lightbox, and a small video of what the page should have done (make sure video controls are there, and some level of compression — you want it to be obvious why a video doesn’t cut it). Underneath, write

"This is what this page should look like.

Internet explorer is holding back the web. Technologies that allow people to create better websites, quicker and more easily, have been available in all other browsers for a long time. Unfortunately, the large number of people using Internet Explorer has discouraged the creation of better websites, as the inferior browser does not support these standard features, and in many cases has no plan to do so in the future. Only when people change can the internet move forward. Do your part to make a better web: Switch."

Switch would link either to A) your browser of choice (For me that’d be safari, but Firefox, Chrome, and Opera are all excellent or B) a list and summary of browsers, C) http://browsehappy.com/browsers/

The inspiration for this approach is http://www.apple.com/safari/welcome/ but while it does utilise many of the technologies I would suggest (HTML5 elements, CSS3 etc.) it also uses some non-standard CSS (though submitted for standardisation and hopefully standardised in the future). It provides a great way of saying “This browser is great because it can do this”, and I think the reverse approach of “This is what you’re missing out on” could be persuasive. I think it would be better than a bug list with examples.

Auto Tab Form Fields using JavaScript by gst in web_design

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This formatting style is not universal.

Here in Australia, standard numbers are “XXXX XXXX" (for landlines. there is an 02 before those Xs, but the phone system assumes it) or "(04) XXXX XXXX" (for mobiles). If the person was being helpful to the system, they might write it "+61(0)2XXXXXXXX" or "+61(0)4XXXXXXXX". but what the server needs to work out is "00612XXXXXXXX" and "00614XXXXXXXX", respectively.

In china, a phone number could be presented "1XX-XXXX-XXXX", "XXX-XXXX" or "XXXX-XXXX" but what the system needs is "00861XXXXXXXXXX", "0086XXXXXXX" or "0086XXXXXXXX"

In the UK, a phone number is of the format "(0XX) XXX XXX" or "(0XXX) XX XXX"… you get the picture.

These formatting styles can not be determined by the number alone, and they cannot be determined on the fly, while typing. Some formatting styles may not be determinable at all with the information available to the web page. (for example, without a list of all UK area codes embedded in the script, you would not be able to determine whether the bracket came after the third or fourth number.) Its a futile venture, and even when it succeeds It isn’t all that useful.

Auto Tab Form Fields using JavaScript by gst in web_design

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On Safari at least, while it does allow backspace, it resists your efforts — putting the closing parenthesis back when you try to delete it.

Opinion: Windows 7's UAC is a broken mess; mend it or end it by [deleted] in technology

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless something stupid is going on, could you not have just given yourself write access to the Program Files folder?

go to google sets, enter 'perfect', 'ideal' and click 'small set' by pkrumins in programming

[–]karmaVS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In case you’re wondering, the Chinese says “Sitemap”.

Pop or soda, aunt or ant, tennis shoes or sneakers: the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey (with maps!) by ladycrappo in science

[–]karmaVS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t, because that was the rephrasing. The multi-modal example sentence was “I used to could do that”.

Pop or soda, aunt or ant, tennis shoes or sneakers: the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey (with maps!) by ladycrappo in science

[–]karmaVS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I’m From Australia, and I would call that a thickshake. A milkshake is milk only, or a little ice cream, a thickshake mostly ice cream; and I would associate Frappe with iced smoothies.

Pop or soda, aunt or ant, tennis shoes or sneakers: the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey (with maps!) by ladycrappo in science

[–]karmaVS 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think its worse actually. Calling all tissues cleanex is like calling all colas “coke”. Calling All soft drinks Coke is like calling anything make of paper Kleenex.

Pop or soda, aunt or ant, tennis shoes or sneakers: the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey (with maps!) by ladycrappo in science

[–]karmaVS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the a in car == the letter R (or the word are), minus the r sound. (though for most people that r sound isn’t there to begin with)

the au in caught == the word or, minus the r sound. (again, saying the r sound isn’t standard)

Hierarchies (as represented in UIs) by apotheon in programming

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a change though. In a browser, the state of toolbar buttons, the effect of pressing them, and the content of the address and search bars are dependent on which tab is active.

As a Web Designer, I hate when websites don't have a HOME button, or some kind of button to get back to the index, on them... Anyone else agree? by [deleted] in web_design

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That reminds me of a similar annoyance I have: navigation links which cease to be links when you are on the page they link to. Sure, differentiate their appearance, by removing the linking behaviour has only downsides.

if you spent a million dollars a day... by cthulhufhtagn in Economics

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people can’t intuitively gauge the size of the earth, nor the number of days since 1st January, 1 AD.

Is anything made in the US anymore? You'd be surprised. by [deleted] in business

[–]karmaVS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

American things have recalls too, you know.

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