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Comment on Thirteen Ways of Looking at an iPad by Irwin

Irwin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:19:24 +0000

Nick,

I know. I’m in the middle of designing another theme for the site. The shoemaker’s children have no shoes, or something like that…

Irwin

Comment on Thirteen Ways of Looking at an iPad by Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:03:24 +0000

P.S. One random unrelated comment: clicking on the word “Blog” up top doesn’t take me to the blog. It takes me back to this page, which basically means “it does nothing”, at least in the context of viewing an individual post.

(Actually, the one on the left takes me back to this individual post, doing nothing. The other text that says Blog, directly above the post, literally does nothing as it’s not a link but just text.)

Now, on the front page, it makes sense, as you can go from section to section by clicking on it. But on an individual page, not so much. I wouldn’t lose the nav when looking at an individual page… or if you’re going to lose the nav, then have a link that takes you back to the main/ front page, rather than back to where you already are.

Anyways, unrelated, I know, but hopefully helpful. It threw me off, and I clicked it a couple of times in confusion, trying to read the other posts on the blog, until I looked down at the link and realized it wasn’t going to do anything.)

Comment on Thirteen Ways of Looking at an iPad by Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:55:38 +0000

I disagree.

(I was considering going through it, but let’s just say I disagree with several parts of it, although I don’t disagree that I think it still may succeed despite its many flaws. Or maybe it’ll just be another Newton.

(I’d say someone should write a Newton emulator for it, but I don’t think it’s got enough resolution to display it! *rimshot*)

Comment on Don’t Make Me Scroll by Twitter Updates for 2009-12-17 — shiner.clay

Twitter Updates for 2009-12-17 — shiner.clay — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:15:07 +0000

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Comment on Don’t Make Me Scroll by AO

AO — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:11:58 +0000

I think you tried to over-rationalize the interface. I /want/ to scroll around arbitrarily. People don’t rd evry singl letr to fnd meaning in words, nor do they read an entire article. they skim around and read a few sentences here and there, look at the illustrations, etc. The keyboard control is great, but I second Darrell’s desire for a better mousing interface.

You’re mistaken that using the keyboard to step forward/backward in makes it a “continuous” experience akin to reading a printed page. It’s true that in a printed magazine you can’t see the page behind the one you’re looking at, but this is tolerable because most magazines can handle more than 200 odd words per page. (I’d like to be able to scale the text using my browser control, as well)

As a user, I’d rather not be forced to click click push click/wait just to get to content nor do I enjoy motion blur effects on text (or Flash in general). Your critiques of the current online magazine format are valid, but I think it has a way to go yet.