http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:09:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-1064 Play Small: why mobile challenges designers to make a better web « matt.me63.com - Matt Edgar Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:59:57 +0000 http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-1064 [...] Paper, Scissors, Phone I suggested getting real with sketches and mobile prototyping as a way to further sharpen this [...] [...] Paper, Scissors, Phone I suggested getting real with sketches and mobile prototyping as a way to further sharpen this [...]

]]> http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-1040 Brushed chrome - the story of Google’s browser in comic book form « matt.me63.com - Matt Edgar Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:11:37 +0000 http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-1040 [...] Mobile is already starting to make the deskbound web a better place. Software engineer Darin Fisher is quoted: “We also knew there was a team at Google working on Android and we asked them, ‘Why did you guys use Webkit?’” So when it came to something as fundamental as the choice of a rendering engine, in a company self-proclaimed to “live on the Internet”, it turned out to be the mobile team that had the inside track. I’ve long believed that the PC-based web experience has lots to gain from applying some of the discipline of mobile. [...] [...] Mobile is already starting to make the deskbound web a better place. Software engineer Darin Fisher is quoted: “We also knew there was a team at Google working on Android and we asked them, ‘Why did you guys use Webkit?’” So when it came to something as fundamental as the choice of a rendering engine, in a company self-proclaimed to “live on the Internet”, it turned out to be the mobile team that had the inside track. I’ve long believed that the PC-based web experience has lots to gain from applying some of the discipline of mobile. [...]

]]> http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-626 Ben Childs Mon, 21 May 2007 15:30:46 +0000 http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-626 Apparently to support better development of their Windows Mobile platform, MS's next release of Vista will include an interface called "Through the square window"™ which offers a movable opaque layer which blanks your whole screen except for a [generous] 200 pixel square transparent viewing hole - encouraging PC developers/users to adapt to viewing things the mobile way. Apparently it was nearly included in the current release but the system requirements to render the drop-shadow effect through the window were too heavy for today's computers. Apparently to support better development of their Windows Mobile platform, MS’s next release of Vista will include an interface called “Through the square window”™ which offers a movable opaque layer which blanks your whole screen except for a [generous] 200 pixel square transparent viewing hole – encouraging PC developers/users to adapt to viewing things the mobile way. Apparently it was nearly included in the current release but the system requirements to render the drop-shadow effect through the window were too heavy for today’s computers.

]]> http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-625 mattedgar Mon, 21 May 2007 14:33:28 +0000 http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-625 A bit off-topic to mobile design. It was hard to pick the highlights in last week's Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again - <a href="http://www.jonathanmeades.com/onthebrandwagon.html" rel="nofollow">"On The Brandwagon"</a> but "holstic pudding church" took the, umm, biscuit. Can't wait for this Wednesday's episode on Leeds architect Cuthbert Brodrick. A bit off-topic to mobile design. It was hard to pick the highlights in last week’s Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again – “On The Brandwagon” but “holstic pudding church” took the, umm, biscuit. Can’t wait for this Wednesday’s episode on Leeds architect Cuthbert Brodrick.

]]> http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-624 Vorn Mon, 21 May 2007 10:36:41 +0000 http://matt.me63.com/2007/04/23/paper-scissors-phone/#comment-624 What on earth is an holistic pudding church? What on earth is an holistic pudding church?

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