LukeBMM
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Changing the context to voice markup doesn't in any way change or address the core point, which is that you really seem to be expressing that you only care about the way that you happen to consume text and therefore any other viewpoints are superfluous. Also that you're willing to go out of your way to create and publish a plugin to effectively sabotage anyone trying to do anything else.
Of all the opinions someone could hold strongly, that's certainly one of them.
Comment · 2 years ago
As a (relatively, though age is catching up with my vision, admittedly) able-bodied Westerner who reads no other languages than English, I find this opinion shocking. Would paraphrasing your point as, "I don't think anyone who reads in any way other than the one I'm familiar with deserves knowledge," have a different impact, or does that seem ok to you, too?
Comment · 3 years ago
The answer to "Why did Google do ____?" is _always_ - and has always been - because it was better in the long run for Google.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's no one single thing, except internalizing a bunch of small ones.
My favorite guide is by Tania Rascia [1]. It walks through each of the "rules" and applies them to a simple example. My second favorite is by Anthony Hobday [2] and each "rule" gets its own, simple example to demonstrate.
Comment · 3 years ago
Exactly. Apple's lack of contribution to the internet ecosystem exactly aligns with their profit motive: Selling hardware.
Google's involvement in the internet ecosystem exactly aligns with their profit motive: Putting relevant ads in front of individuals based upon data they've gleaned from relatively "un-sexy" sources like search, analytics, libraries, font hosting, email, chat, etc.
I'm not opposed to companies making a profit. I try, however, to keep in mind conflicts of interest when choosing my sources of information. Everything anyone at Google says about the web is suspect because that is a conflict of interest. Google, as an organization, exists to turn web traffic into profit and should always be considered accordingly.
Comment · 4 years ago
Based in part off Gibson's work, there's also The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. First published as Psychology of Everyday Things in '88, it's arguable whether it counts as "older" but seems pretty timeless conceptually, even if the specific examples may become dated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things
Edit: Oh, yeah. How about Tufte ('83 for Visual Display of Quantitative Information) and Albers (Interaction of Color in '63). I should think first, then post.
Comment · 4 years ago
An example, which sounds like it won't work on iOS.
Comment · 4 years ago
An example might be helpful. Imagine you had buttons that come in small, medium, and large sizes. You want those buttons to have similar, proportional padding, letter-spacing, and border-radius. Margin around the buttons, however, should always be the same size to align with your columns or something.
You can put those properties which should vary in ems and then all you have to do is change the large and small font sizes from the default. Margin, however, remains in rems because it needs to be consistent. Everything will scale proportionately and your large and small button classes are clear, expressive, and concise.
Comment · 4 years ago
The Oldest Game, in link format? That's actually pretty clever.
Comment · 4 years ago
I can't wait to try this. I understand why folks praise III, but II remains my favorite for the art style and slightly smaller scope.
Comment · 4 years ago
The only problem in this scenario is being the type of person who always drinks the same wine.
Comment · 4 years ago
"Transcendent" might be my new favorite way to describe my old favorite application.
Comment · 4 years ago
Github Pages can use Jekyll to turn markdown files (mostly just plain text) into navigable pages for free. It might not be as simple as you'd like, though, depending upon your comfort level.
Gitlab Pages requires a little more effort to get up and going, but it's more flexible.
Comment · 4 years ago
I just ran into this myself and came to see if others ran into it. I'm blocked (while logged in, with strict settings and NoScript) on Firefox Developer Edition, but it's working on a relatively default (and not logged in) version of plain old Firefox.
{ Edit: tried both old and www with the same results. }
The other is Tania Rascia's (which shows each rule being applied to the same example, instead of each rule being demonstrated in a vacuum). I think the two different ways of illustrating the impact of each "rule" can be helpful for a pretty wide range of folks who often think in different modes.
https://www.taniarascia.com/design-for-developers/