Mostly musings on design
webkit browsers have a cool CSS animation part. Shaun Inman is experimenting with it. Now imagin imagine a site where, to see new content you just rotate the page. It’s kind of a mind-blowing experience to see and envision how this may be used someday in the future. Also note that the text in the experiment is entirely selectable.
Update: corrected mispelling of imagine. Can you imagine that?
Please read this article. (h/t Francis Cheng) Right now I’m in the midst of trying to build a simple photo gallery in Flash. Although I catch glimpses of what ActionScript 3 is capable of, too often I find myself struggling against it. It shouldn’t be this hard. For a tool that was originally built to allow easy animation and interactivity on the web, Flash has certainly strayed far from those simple beginnings. I hope that Adobe is figuring out a good way to bring us not-so-programmy-types back into the fun of Flash. Because right now I’m not having fun…
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Google today released (at least to public preview) a web application environment generically called Google App Engine. One of the featured demo applications Huddle Chat is receiving a lot of criticism (John Gruber, Kevin Heisler) for its striking “resemblance” to 37 Signals’ Campfire web application. Resemblance being a polite way of saying copying. When the design and implementation are so similar, its easy to see why many view this as copying or, at the very least, poor form on Google’s part. This blunder just might stall Google App Engine adaption. Google will need to ensure that Google App Engine developer’s ideas, designs, code, and implementation won’t be copied. Otherwise Google may be perceived as another threat among many by programmers and developers.
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