[This post is by Android designer Alex Faaborg, on behalf of the entire User Experience team. —Tim Bray]When we initially released Android Design, by far the number one request we received was for us to release stencils as well. The fine folks on t…
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Apartment 3-G, 2/29/12 Huh, did Scott really not know that Tommie and Margo were roommates? That seems like a weird detail … that probably won’t be relevant at all in this plotline, if we’re lucky, because quite frankly it sounds like a really boring thing to dwell on, why did we even bring it up [...]
If you’ve published an app on Android Market, you’ve probably used Application Statistics to help tune your development and marketing efforts. Application Statistics is a set of dashboards in the Developer Console that shows your app’s installatio…
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts today:
CSS Transforms. CSS transforms allows elements styled with CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. This specifica…
Ziggy, 2/28/12 That’s true, Ziggy! It’s also true that sometimes that door is an inky black portal radiating evil so powerful that it somehow, incomprehensibly, casts a shadow, and that it doesn’t lead to opportunity so much as to an awful hell-dimension full of soul-devouring demons. KNOCK. KNOCK. Pluggers, 2/28/12 Pluggers know that if things [...]
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Hi and Lois, 2/27/12 I was going to write some joke about Hi casting a loving glance over his shoulder at the TV set, reenforcing Dot’s claim that this soulless hunk of electronics has become a beloved family member by filling the Flagstons’ dull lives with hours of mind-numbing entertainment, but then I noticed that [...]
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 2/26/12 I had always hoped that, if there were anywhere in America where the bane of helicopter parenting had yet to arrive, it was Hootin’ Holler. And yet here we have the Smifs hovering intrusively over their toddler instead of just letting him engage in the sort of non-supervised play [...]
Pluggers, 2/25/12 When I was in college I had a big thing for a Catholic girl and one week I went to church with her (ROMANTIC PRO TIP: This very rarely works) and it was a typically crunchy collegiate parish and at one point the bearded priest busted out an acoustic guitar and we got [...]
RIGHT NOW! HERE IT IS! YOUR COMMENT OF THE WEEK! “If there’s any one superhero who can deal with a nap-related crisis, it’s Spider-Man!” –Effluvius Erratus And your very funny runners up! “At first I’d assumed the Momma comic was a reference to Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler. Then I realized that that [...]
W3C invites media, analysts, and other attendees of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 to meet with W3C and learn how the Open Web Platform is transforming industry. From 27 February through 1 March W3C will showcase demonstrations at its boot…
Hagar the Horrible, 2/24/12 It’s sad, but true: If you’re living on the windswept edge of a Norwegian fjord somewhere towards the tail end of the Viking age, a one-room hovel with a thatched roof surrounded by grass poking out of the nutrient-poor soil really does represent “do[ing] rather well for yourself.” At least you [...]
Today the White House
announces a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and support for W3C’s Do Not Track technology. The announcement includes: “In response to calls from the Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), leading Internet c…
The RDB2RDF Working Group has published two Candidate Recommendation documents that help to bring relational database information to the Semantic Web: R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language and A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF. The former…
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