Comments for Greg's Head http://www.raizlabs.com/blog Mobile experience, user interface design, software and new ideas. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Ten reasons why CSS sucks by Jantje http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/148/ten-reasons-why-css-sucks/comment-page-3#comment-4832 Jantje Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:15:47 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/wp2/?p=148#comment-4832 After manny years (old days) of using tables to get the website layout the way I wanted, I wanted to modernize. So I stated to learn div with css positioning. (w3c schools). It is a huge pain to create layouts. The absolute worst is aligning things in the center. Only aligning text is made "easy" but also then I have to repeat it all the time again. Aligning complete sections is an absolute disaster. I am gonna fall back on "depricated" commands and see how long it takes before webbrowser cant show it anymore. A big big big thumbs down for the w3c standard. Making it simply unneeded more complicated by depriocating some commands. After manny years (old days) of using tables to get the website layout the way I wanted, I wanted to modernize. So I stated to learn div with css positioning. (w3c schools). It is a huge pain to create layouts. The absolute worst is aligning things in the center. Only aligning text is made “easy” but also then I have to repeat it all the time again. Aligning complete sections is an absolute disaster. I am gonna fall back on “depricated” commands and see how long it takes before webbrowser cant show it anymore. A big big big thumbs down for the w3c standard. Making it simply unneeded more complicated by depriocating some commands.

]]> Comment on Powerpoint Wireframe Template for UI design by AP http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/294/wireframing-in-powerpoint/comment-page-1#comment-4511 AP Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:17:22 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=294#comment-4511 Just awesome! Sure there are plenty of wire-framing tools out there. But nothing beats PowerPoint for ease of creation and sharing. I especially like the pencil-drawn look. I am guessing you are a pretty good artist too. :) Perhaps the only thing missing is a video plug-in element. :) Thanks! P.S: Comments here seem to get posted twice. Just awesome! Sure there are plenty of wire-framing tools out there. But nothing beats PowerPoint for ease of creation and sharing. I especially like the pencil-drawn look. I am guessing you are a pretty good artist too. :)

Perhaps the only thing missing is a video plug-in element. :)

Thanks!
P.S: Comments here seem to get posted twice.

]]> Comment on Powerpoint Wireframe Template for UI design by Wireframing Resources « MAXSTUDIOTECH http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/294/wireframing-in-powerpoint/comment-page-1#comment-4473 Wireframing Resources « MAXSTUDIOTECH Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:53:14 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=294#comment-4473 [...] PowerPoint Wireframe Template for UI Design We’ve already covered a couple of Keynote wireframing templates for Mac users out there, but there are also PowerPoint templates for PC users out there. These include sample screens with various design elements included. [...] [...] PowerPoint Wireframe Template for UI Design We’ve already covered a couple of Keynote wireframing templates for Mac users out there, but there are also PowerPoint templates for PC users out there. These include sample screens with various design elements included. [...]

]]> Comment on Kindle ReDesign by Kindle Fire | Greg's Head http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/377/kindle-design-still-sucks/comment-page-2#comment-4454 Kindle Fire | Greg's Head Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:33:41 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=367#comment-4454 [...] 2009 I wrote that the Kindle experience was terrible and that they needed something better, in color and awesome.  Now, two years later the Kindle Fire [...] [...] 2009 I wrote that the Kindle experience was terrible and that they needed something better, in color and awesome.  Now, two years later the Kindle Fire [...]

]]> Comment on Ten reasons why CSS sucks by hsn http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/148/ten-reasons-why-css-sucks/comment-page-3#comment-4230 hsn Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:11:42 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/wp2/?p=148#comment-4230 Agree! css is not the easiest to learn and does not provide all the required features to create nice layouts. People are stuck because most want to use css as it can result in clean HTML. Most css layouts are "hacks". There are zillions of such examples on the web. Most of the css layouts in the end depend on pixel based positioning to circumvent some of the pitfalls. I am not saying that layouts using html tables are the best, but more often than not tables work better and easier than css. I personally don't like use table to create layouts because it is not meant for that purpose. Someone can argue with a lot of reasons why to use css as it is and grow slowly so that more people will accommodate the changes and all that. But at least when we go to HTML-5 and CSS3 some of these issues should have been visited as a fresh start. Agree! css is not the easiest to learn and does not provide all the required features to create nice layouts. People are stuck because most want to use css as it can result in clean HTML. Most css layouts are “hacks”. There are zillions of such examples on the web. Most of the css layouts in the end depend on pixel based positioning to circumvent some of the pitfalls. I am not saying that layouts using html tables are the best, but more often than not tables work better and easier than css. I personally don’t like use table to create layouts because it is not meant for that purpose. Someone can argue with a lot of reasons why to use css as it is and grow slowly so that more people will accommodate the changes and all that. But at least when we go to HTML-5 and CSS3 some of these issues should have been visited as a fresh start.

]]> Comment on Iphone wireframe and interface toolkit by Powerpoint Wireframe Template for UI design | Greg's Head http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/348/iphone-wireframe-and-interface-toolkit/comment-page-1#comment-4212 Powerpoint Wireframe Template for UI design | Greg's Head Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:13:56 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=348#comment-4212 [...] iPhone Wireframe basics [...] [...] iPhone Wireframe basics [...]

]]> Comment on Ten reasons why CSS sucks by Dersk One http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/148/ten-reasons-why-css-sucks/comment-page-3#comment-4205 Dersk One Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:20:20 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/wp2/?p=148#comment-4205 Like this thread, I dont know how many times I get into arguements about css. I find it useful for some things, very little things, but as far as design and sticking true to it, gotta say I love html, and always had...Dersk. Like this thread, I dont know how many times I get into arguements about css. I find it useful for some things, very little things, but as far as design and sticking true to it, gotta say I love html, and always had…Dersk.

]]> Comment on Linux/Unix Case Sensitivity by Rabbit http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/173/linuxunix-case-sensitivity/comment-page-1#comment-4201 Rabbit Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:49:12 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=173#comment-4201 You know, a bit of advice I've heard a few times is that the best way to get into a good computer sciences programme at university is to have good English marks; being great at maths and sciences often isn't enough. Most businesses consider good English and communication skills a lot more important than a lot of hackers seem to think they are, and it really shows. Guys, come on, I know this is shocking, but English /is/ case sensitive. Sure you can look at "jOHN wHATEVER sMiTh" and know that it's more or less equivalent to "John Whatever Smith," but if you know what you're doing, you'd also be able to immediately tell that the former is definitely wrong, in the context of the English language. It's just as incorrect as "john whatever smith." UNIX has always been for people who knew what they were doing, or who would at least bother to learn how. You know, a bit of advice I’ve heard a few times is that the best way to get into a good computer sciences programme at university is to have good English marks; being great at maths and sciences often isn’t enough. Most businesses consider good English and communication skills a lot more important than a lot of hackers seem to think they are, and it really shows. Guys, come on, I know this is shocking, but English /is/ case sensitive. Sure you can look at “jOHN wHATEVER sMiTh” and know that it’s more or less equivalent to “John Whatever Smith,” but if you know what you’re doing, you’d also be able to immediately tell that the former is definitely wrong, in the context of the English language. It’s just as incorrect as “john whatever smith.” UNIX has always been for people who knew what they were doing, or who would at least bother to learn how.

]]> Comment on Linux/Unix Case Sensitivity by Some Shit http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/173/linuxunix-case-sensitivity/comment-page-1#comment-4591 Some Shit Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:48:00 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=173#comment-4591 You assume that case insensitivity is easy because you speak English.  If you speak other languages, you would realize that case insensitivity is hard.  What happens when I have "heße.txt" on my hard drive but I type in the capitalized "HESSE.TXT"?  Is Bjork the same as Björk?  (Hint: depends on the language.)  Unix was always designed for people who knew what they were doing, people who like case sensitive systems.  And if you run a web site, you can just correct the URL's spelling with a redirect (Apache's mod_spelling).  What a waste of hot air. You assume that case insensitivity is easy because you speak English.  If you speak other languages, you would realize that case insensitivity is hard.  What happens when I have “heße.txt” on my hard drive but I type in the capitalized “HESSE.TXT”?  Is Bjork the same as Björk?  (Hint: depends on the language.)  Unix was always designed for people who knew what they were doing, people who like case sensitive systems.  And if you run a web site, you can just correct the URL’s spelling with a redirect (Apache’s mod_spelling).  What a waste of hot air.

]]> Comment on Extended Off-Screen Keyboard by Security Protection removal http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/336/extended-off-screen-keyboard/comment-page-1#comment-4589 Security Protection removal Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:25:00 +0000 http://www.raizlabs.com/blog/?p=336#comment-4589 What is Off-Screen Keyboard?Is it different from the other computer keyboards? What is Off-Screen Keyboard?Is it different from the other computer keyboards?

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