This quotes by Mitch Hedberg strikes me as a good metaphor for graceful degradation / progressive enhancement.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Mitch Hedberg (American comedian, 1968 – 2005)
Author: pixeline
Date: November 11th, 2009
filed in: Development, General
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And now, a word from the president
yup. That’s right this is my coming out. I’m 35 years old, live with my wife and two daughters to whom i ‘ve vowed honesty. I guess the time is just as right as any other moment of my life for this important announcement: contrary to what i pretended so hard to be, what i always thought i was, i’m not. Not anymore.
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Author: pixeline
Date: April 10th, 2009
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Foraging through the website statistics for lisapram.com, I just discovered that the website recently got a lot of love from social bookmarking service delicio.us .
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Author: pixeline
Date: April 7th, 2009
filed in: General, SEO
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TaskSpeed is a test suite useful to compare the performance of various javascript libraries. These are usually source of a lot of discussion on which is the best library. That’s a topic better left aside.
IE suck
What’s remarkable instead in this speed test suite, is the obvious manner in which it appears that Internet Explorer (IE) is lagging far behind in terms of performance, IE6 particularly (but IE7 suck too, and IE8 will suck pretty soon).
Again, nothing new there, except for the fact that it outlines how library authors “try” to make it work on IE6 but it’s just plain painful to watch it try painfully to render whatever animation your website has, turning animations into an experience closer to museum’s still-nature contemplation.
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Author: pixeline
Date: April 2nd, 2009
filed in: General
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The problem: cannot upgrade my graphics driver
My laptop ( a good old Acer Travelmate 8204) comes equipped with a ATI mobility Radeon 1600 graphics card. Unfortunately, i cannot simply install the latest drivers from ati.com as they are refurbished by Acer. If i download the latest Catalyst driverpack then run the installer, it detects at some point that it is not suitable for my hardware.
The cause
AMD (formerly ATI) have for many years had their hands tied with laptop manufacturers (OEMS) who request that ATI do not offer support for their device in the Catalyst Driver. This may seem strange, however makers such as Dell may have implemented their own support system and they do not want their customers downloading “reference” drivers from ATI’s home page.
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Author: pixeline
Date: March 2nd, 2009
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