Peter Vidani
January 2011
December 2010
You ever get happy when stuff happens sometimes? Not as happy other times? This guys knows what I’m talking about.
Punch Me Harder
Superchunk
Superchunk - Punch Me Harder
Punch Me Harder
Superchunk
Superchunk - Punch Me Harder
“I’ve always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Makes me think of my childhood.”
—Jonathan Ames, Bored To Death
TinEye browser plug-ins
tineye.com
The only Safari Extension I’ve not eventually uninstalled.
“But wait… you want a name that is in use? One that’s being used by someone who doesn’t even play on OMGPOP anymore (yeah, they probably died or something).”
—OMGPOP
Smartphone Browser Landscape
alistapart.com
Opera Mini is different… Where the other browsers just download the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, interpret it, and render it, Opera Mini does something quite different. When you request a page in Opera Mini, that request goes to a special Opera Mini server. The server downloads the assets, interprets them, and renders the page. Then it sends back an image of the resulting page to your phone. You view the image via the Opera Mini client.
The advantage is that the Opera Mini client needs very little memory, which makes it especially suited to low-end, inexpensive devices. In addition, the actual data download consists only of a highly compressed image.
Opera Mini’s disadvantage is that it offers no client-side interactivity: If clicking on a link fires a JavaScript event handler for some Ajaxy goodness, Opera Mini goes back to the server to ask for instructions. The server handles the script and sends back an image of the updated page.
Smartphone Browser Landscape
alistapart.com
Opera Mini is different… Where the other browsers just download the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, interpret it, and render it, Opera Mini does something quite different. When you request a page in Opera Mini, that request goes to a special Opera Mini server. The server downloads the assets, interprets them, and renders the page. Then it sends back an image of the resulting page to your phone. You view the image via the Opera Mini client.
The advantage is that the Opera Mini client needs very little memory, which makes it especially suited to low-end, inexpensive devices. In addition, the actual data download consists only of a highly compressed image.
Opera Mini’s disadvantage is that it offers no client-side interactivity: If clicking on a link fires a JavaScript event handler for some Ajaxy goodness, Opera Mini goes back to the server to ask for instructions. The server handles the script and sends back an image of the updated page.
If a tree falls in an animated gif, but the gif is scrolled off the page, does it still not make a sound?
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—Palbi
