AbsoluteDestiny

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by AbsoluteDestiny 5y ago
:focus-visible allows you to work out if something has focus because it was clicked (not what you usually want) or if it's been tabbed to via a keyboard (what you want).
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by AbsoluteDestiny 5y ago
See also https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thagomizer which has seen adoption.
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by AbsoluteDestiny 5y ago
You could just crop then scale which should give you a lot more control.
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by AbsoluteDestiny 5y ago
Every linked element relies on ids: anchors, the label for attribute, all of the aria-labelledby, controls, describedby etc. Sure a full selector would be better but what level of css selectors do you support when writing the spec for user
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by AbsoluteDestiny 5y ago
Really good article. For those interested in this sort of thing, wired did a pretty good series on accents in the US recently on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KP4ztKK0A https://www.youtube.com/w
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by AbsoluteDestiny 6y ago
Be careful when using semantic elements purely for presentation purposes. For instance, the <aside> element gives the element a landmark role 'complimentary' telling assistive devices that this is not part of the main conten
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by AbsoluteDestiny 7y ago
Video codecs compress better than GIFs, so auto playing video elements can be used for this.
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by AbsoluteDestiny 12y ago
Colloquialisms will pose tricky when they conflict. For example, "3pm next friday" is deciphered by duckling as Friday, 3 October 2014 at 15:00:00 +0000 (UTC) which would not be correct if talking colloquially where I grew up as &
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by AbsoluteDestiny 12y ago
Likewise it doesn't know what a fortnight is.
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by AbsoluteDestiny 12y ago
It doesn't matter how quickly we put carbon in the atmosphere. It has a 200 year effect - taking 60 more years versus 20 is meaningless if you end up putting it all up there anyway. The only difference would be how soon we suffer the w
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by AbsoluteDestiny 13y ago
The real problem with 3D is much like the problem with hearing 'whispers' behind you with surround sound... I go from being immersed in the movie to being rudely reminded that I am in a cinema watching a movie. Until the experienc
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by AbsoluteDestiny 13y ago
For making any art containing that character. Seems like a big deal. I thought he already was public domain and that was why there were so many derivative works (movies, tv, video games etc) but I guess they all had to license the character
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by AbsoluteDestiny 13y ago
The biggest downside I found with kivy is the amount of time it takes to launch the app as it has to set up the python environment et al. If that's improved with newer versions of kivy I might go back to see what it can do.
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by AbsoluteDestiny 13y ago
This is my favourite keyboard, particularly in the poorly-named 'ninja' version where the keys are printed on the front instead of the top which avoids the print rubbing off. http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard&#x2F
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by AbsoluteDestiny 13y ago
You have to use something like git-annex. Possibly some other options that others might know of.
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by AbsoluteDestiny 13y ago
I think you're missing a significant 0 on that Creative Cloud price.
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by AbsoluteDestiny 13y ago
An article posted 7th Nov 2013 should not be recommending use of PIL (a dead project) over Pillow, imo. The only reference to Pillow in the article is a link at the bottom to the Pillow tutorial.