Well done, Philipp. :) I would use this in a study. My hypothesis would be that people refuse to use their minds if they know they can rely on a tool which will solve the problem for them. And then I would measure the amount of people who won't notice it until the results page is shown.
- Rami Botros
My eyes went straight to the search box+button so put me down as one who only noticed on the results. Of course I self-justify this by feeling that it was the more efficient way round to do it ... little point in reading the rest of the page for most searches ;-) I expect an favicon would work differently, relatively rare though the font is.
- immaterial
"We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer. Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was to connect them together. To share things. But as these little networks grew, some computers gained more power than the rest and called themselves servers ..." (from the source code)
- Ionut
from Bookmarklet
No, I don't think so (the beta version was released last week). It's something related to cloud computing.
- Ionut
Tall order. I remember a day in early 80s when I explained the then-new office microcomputer to a journalist as a "typewriter of tomorrow today." What do you think was the newspaper leading with the very next day?
- ianf ⌘
LIked this bit "Fridge - A fun place for people to leave notes on your computer." Rrrright. @Jérôme, if it proves a success, the other undoubtedly will follow. There are only so many ways desktop-server can communicate with peers over the IP, so the principle can not have been patented, only certain aspects of Opera's implementation.
- ianf ⌘
There was a plugin for Firefox called AllPeers that turned Firefox into a social P2P file sharing application. But the project was stopped because there wasn't enough users.
- Brome
While servers are not useless, the idea that not everything has to pass through them is sensible. You need a always on computer (e.g. at home) for Opera Unite to work, don't you?
- milivella
Probably not, not always on. They must've taken into the account what it is running on, how to save and reestablish state of connection seamlessly after possible "hiccups" in the network. In effect implemented a stateless system with high level of redundancy, possibly with a distributed p2p file system etc.
- ianf ⌘
If you close Opera or you shut down your computer, your web applications will no longer work. You'll get the message: "The device you were trying to access does not seem to be available."
- Ionut
Ionut, if you shut down the computer you won't get anything ;-)) But the issue is not how it ceases to be, but how well it recovers from temporary "absences."
- ianf ⌘
@ianf & Ionut: thanks for the reply. Ionut got what I meant, but what ianf wrote is interesting as well.
- milivella
Seriously, why can't Google design their own Friendfeed (or acquire it) and put "Updates" between Web and Images in the product bar? They could then integrate updates from all services in one stream, with a private section for confidential information ("John has shared a document with you and Paul"). They already have "Friends" (Contacts), "Services" (Picasa, Youtube, etc.), the...
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- Jérôme
They even have the Social Graph API for finding all third party services!
- Jérôme
The offline use is nice, but doesn't the point about the experience being the same seem a little dubious? The HTC Dream and the iPhone run relatively similar versions of WebKit; the problem has always been UA developers not coding to the same specifications.
- Mark Trapp
HTML5 the draft? http://www.w3.org/TR... "HTML 5 is still a draft. The contents of HTML 5, as well as the contents of this document which depend on HTML 5, are still being discussed..."
- Stephen Mack
Mark: I don't understand. Can you elaborate? Is your concern that other mobile HTML5-compliant engines won't render the same as each other?
- Kevin Fox
"The HTML 5 specification will not be considered finished before there are at least two complete implementations of the specification. This is a different approach than previous versions of HTML had. The goal is to ensure that the specification is implementable and usable by designers and developers once it is finished."
- Philipp Lenssen
Kevin, I guess I'm thinking about the discussions from Joel Sposky and others (Joel's piece: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items...) when the IE8 "standards mode" was announced: I'm not convinced all mobile HTML5-compliant engines will interpret what it means to be compliant the same way, and this has been an issue with every version of HTML. I get it if we're limiting the...
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- Mark Trapp
Contradictorily to how things should be, if some dominant apps come out while the spec is still in draft form then engine developers will, for better or worse, try to code to those entrenched apps or at least not break them too hard, especially in the mobile market where the ability to run those apps are features that customers use when making purchasing decisions.
- Kevin Fox
The alternative would be a "Gears" for every platform, right? It makes sense to me they'd rather chase an evolving HTML5.
- Antonio Piccolboni
Exactly. By chasing it, you pin it down. How can you know if a spec draft is complete without building production apps to it? :-)
- Kevin Fox
The great thing about standards is how many there are to choose from.
- Stephen Mack
[fixing a problem with embedding animations, hope to be solved soon :)]
- Philipp Lenssen
[Just updated the blog post to show an example of how you can embed an animation showing the sketch being drawn. (We're currently working to add a border around it and make the link at the end link to the sketch in question...)]
- Philipp Lenssen
The previous card was blue. Blue was seriously not good.
- Tony Ruscoe
Thrown off balance by Bec's shocking revelation, Philipp's mind blanked on what the previous card was. Breathing slowly, he tried to calm himself. "Let the memory come," he silently commanded his subconscious mind.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
"Yes," Bec uttered in threatening tone, "You suspected this all along, didn't you? Now turn your final card."
- Philipp Lenssen
wow, do i feel lost... ok need to go carve a pumpkin or something...oooh look candy!!!
- Susan Beebe
@Soulhuntre, that was the nicest thing you've ever said about Obama... I guess you've really, really changed your mind!! glad to hear that you'll be voting for real change on tuesday... awesome!
- Chris Hollander
They stared at each other across the table for what seemed like an eternity. A warm breeze blew in through the window, carrying with it smells of the marketplace and conversations of random passers-by.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo