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Reading “The Humane Interface” – Early Impressions
I’ve been reading Jef Raskin’s The Humane Interface. It’s packed with knowledge. Here’s some.
Regarding Fixed Positioning in Mobile Safari
Wow, so the influx of traffic after my previous article was linked by the ever-popular (and rakishly good-looking) John Gruber turned out to be a very positive experience.
Obviously a bajillion-percent traffic increase over a 36-hour period is great news, you say! Well, it is if a) my hosting holds up and b) people are not jerks. Fortunately, both events proved to hold true, as my server never blinked (props to ExpressionEngine’s caching abilities) and I received a number of thought-provoking emails from (rakishly good-looking) readers.
(Statistic: removing comments from my blog appears to have reduced the amount of negative feedback I get by infinity percent.)
Anyway, I just want to address one topic that a number of people brought up in emails: the behavior of position:fixed in Mobile Safari.
PodCamp Nashville 2010 Presentation
For the few dozen faithful of you that attended PodCamp Nashville 2010 (and the even fewer dozen that read my articles) (lots of love to you all), here are the slides from my segment of Griffin Technology’s presentation, entitled “Is The iPad Just A Big iPhone?” (Yes, we realize that the word “the” before “iPad” is against Apple rules. Rebellion!)
We were (secretly) hoping to get some folks on the offensive (or defensive) with that title, but the audience was actually quite civil and inquisitive. Which was good as well!
The presentation was meant to have no barrier to entry – nothing super-technical, just some observations about how iPad is going to turn the user experience on its head.
You can download a PDF of our slides, watch me mumble it up in this very iPhoney iPhone video of my talk (graciously provided by Cintron), or (preferably) read on for the directors-cut blog-entry version of my segment.
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Cameron Daigle is a designer who scribbles information in notebooks, in his head, or (ever so occasionally) on this website.