BRYCE DOT VC: Our First Pull Request
A few weeks back we put OATV.com and it’s underlying code up on GitHub.
At the time, I thought it would serve as a repo for sharing some of the work we’d done in designing our new site. And my hope was that it would be helpful for someone looking to build a site with a similar look and feel.
Then, last week, something happened.
Source: brycedotvc
Flash is mature. It’s supported by all major desktop browsers. It’s stable when used properly. If not, it crashes a lot, just like every other technology. It requires constant security updates, just like every other web technology. It doesn’t work well on most mobile devices, and for good reasons. It’s a content plugin, developed during the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. Websites that rely on Flash can present a unique (and often unparalleled) experience for the massive percentage of users on a desktop browser. Flash powers some amazing experiences that work consistently across all of the major browsers in a way that cannot be replicated without Flash technology.
Championing simplistic statements regarding web technologies makes the web less educated. At this point, it’s holding back the web.
Our goal: To get the world to embrace the best web technologies available to create the best user experiences possible.
Source: occupyhtml.org
Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of closed standards and unilateral corporate control of web technology. Websites that rely on Flash present a completely inconsistent (and often unusable) experience for fast-growing percentage of the users who don’t use a desktop browser. It introduces some scary security and privacy issues by way of Flash cookies.
Flash makes the web less accessible. At this point, it’s holding back the web.
Our goal: To get the world to uninstall the Flash Player plugin from their desktop browsers.
Source: occupyflash.org
Stripe Makes it Easy to Start Accepting Credit Cards on the Web Today.
Stripe is a simple, developer-friendly way to accept payments online. Stripe believes that enabling transactions on the web is a problem rooted in code, not finance, and they want to help put more websites in business.
Complexity and opacity have traditionally been hallmarks of online payment processing. Stripe wants to fix that.
Source: stripe.com
Designers vs Coding
“Do I need to know how to code?” is a question that comes up with sure-fire consistency in design circles. I’ve seen it asked by so many, from uncertain design students in classrooms worried about their chances of landing a job, to seasoned professionals at conferences seeing their pool of print projects slowly evaporate. The question is being asked with even greater frequency as of late, because Adobe has launched their product Muse, which promises designers the ability to “create unique websites without writing code.” So, if a designer wants to work on the web, should they take the time to learn this dastardly “code” or instead rely on software like Muse?
Source: viafrank
Matthew Ericson’s slides from his presentation on how the NY Times graphics department uses maps to explain the news and help readers better understand what’s happening in the world around them.
A must read for all aspring data-journalists.
Source: ericson.net
Addy Osmani Presents jQuery & JavaScript Articles for the Dev Community
Addy Osmani is a member of the jQuery Bug Triage and API Docs teams and offers up his blog with current and modern takes on JavaScript development.
Source: addyosmani.com
