August 2014 Entries
12 HTML5 tricks for mobile could just have easily been called 12 HTML5 hacks for mobile, and indeed the author switches between tricks/hacks a couple of times in the text. Some of these look useful, others questionable (although I’m sure there’s going to be scenarios where they’re applicable). I think that mobile sites need to own the fact that they’re a site and not a native app, and stop trying so hard to look like they are. Personally, I’ve never added a site to my home screen – I can see that it might be handy, but it’s just...
My usage of Netflix so far has seemed to follow a pattern that’s well known amongst Netflix users – that is, that I spend more time browsing and trying to decide on what to watch on Netflix than actually watching anything. I did get some help from the handy flowchart which was doing the rounds a while ago: However it’s pretty clear that the flowchart isn’t something that’s going to be easy to keep up to date. Enter abetterqueue.com. The site gives you a few simply options for filtering by genre/age/rating to help you find...
From the “I hate Facebook” Desk comes the news that they’ve banned like-gating (the process of exchanging a “Like” for some free content – often seen with music artists). It’s probably about time, as it really is a sign of subverting the intent of a “Like”. So in theory I support this. However thinking about it, I really like action-gating (the suggested replacement) even less. With a “Like” it was easy to simply click the button and get what you want (and then undo the like later if you cared – I suspect most people don’t bother...