May 10, 2013 by Frederick | 0 comments
I’m calling out The Daily Pennsylvanian for worst uses of Flash, ever. Flash animations make sense when interactivity is demanded, and only then, in rare cases.
A couple of months ago, this happened: a post lauding the university for winning the 2012 CIO 100 Award for mobile-friendly sites, using Flash as the only content on the page:
The irony.
To top it off, guess what the mobile site shows on a phone?
Mobile friendly, my ass.
Yeah, that’s right. A blank article.
I wouldn’t be so mad if it were a one-time thing. But then this illustration of our commencement speakers was published this week:
You can’t think of a way to present this well with a table?
Again, a blank article shows on mobile. And it’s not just my phone that does this: development of Flash for mobile was halted nearly 2 years ago, and iOS has clearly not had Flash since the start.
But my gripe isn’t with Flash itself, or even with mobile compatibility — I’m just upset that people are using a medium that doesn’t make sense for things that shouldn’t even be interactive. I get it; college kids like to play around with software, or whatever. But you guys gotta stop this.
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December 21, 2012
by Frederick
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… I expect the answers to be right. Namecheap, a domain registrar and web services provider, is currently running a Twitter contest with tech/domain/company trivia, awarding free domain registrations to participants, and top prizes of a Macbook Air and iPads … Continue reading
June 14, 2012 by Frederick | Comments Off
If IE6 (that ancient browser all web developers hate) works, I’m pretty damn sure Chrome 21 will!
Penn’s web apps, like certain features in Penn InTouch, give an “invalid browser” message when using Chrome.
It’s time they fixed this. Stop forcing me to launch Firefox!
December 6, 2011 by Frederick | Comments Off
3D in my browser, rendered by my browser? I gotta get this.
When Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud goes down — even just one region — it takes Reddit, Quora, Netflix, Foursquare, Instagram, and many other sites down. It’s like part of the Internet goes dark.
At least that part of the Internet doesn’t include Twitter.
March 22, 2011 by Frederick | Comments Off
I ran into this puzzling CAPTCHA today. Although I clicked the refresh button to get a new image, I’ve been wondering whether I should have just typed in
\sum\limits^\infty_{m=1} \text{Itithe}
For those of you unfamiliar with LaTeX: that code is rendered as
January 31, 2011
by Frederick
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Dear Netflix (you dirty freeloader): Please pay us €3 for every gigabyte of traffic you send to our wireless networks (and €0.05 per GB to our wired networks). Sincerely, Europe’s largest ISPs.
April 7, 2010
by Frederick
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Just like “unlimited” really means subject to limits, the marketing guys at Rogers seem to communicate that “any” doesn’t mean any. Any tier Yesterday, I got an ad in the mail from them for their digital cable service, offering a … Continue reading