{S}criptshit - HTML5, Javascript, CSS & mobile Web

White on White

polarity — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:11:33 +0200

The first thing you do when designing something where the user can change the background, is try out a variety of backgrounds.

Whats up with Apple? just wow!

"Apple has always placed a priority on protecting our customers’ personal data, and we don’t collect..."

polarity — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:22 +0200

“Apple has always placed a priority on protecting our customers’ personal data, and we don’t collect or maintain a mountain of personal details about our customers in the first place. There are certain categories of information which we do not provide to law enforcement or any other group because we choose not to retain it. For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data. Similarly, we do not store data related to customers’ location, Map searches or Siri requests in any identifiable form.”

- Apple - Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy

Internet for All – Project Loon

polarity — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:31:08 +0200

Internet for All – Project Loon:

Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters.

This is actually a really cool project. Why does only google come to these kind of ideas? If this works out and we have a good network in a couple of months and everyone is hopping on the loon bandwagon to have internet access, all the data privacy creepers come out and blame Google for locking new markets. Yes they want everyone to use the internet, thats where the google ads are and thats where the money lies, but they try to do new things to keep their market alive and to move forward instead of locking down users with traffic limits like “Deutsche Telekom” and others to get more money out of their customers.

In Germany theres actually a stagnation on service providers for several years now and counting. Can´t wait for Google to fill the gap and kick these old conservative thinking companys out of the game.

Text-align: Justify and Responsive Web Design

polarity — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:00:50 +0200

Text-align: Justify and Responsive Web Design:

Did you know that one of the most powerful tools for fluid and responsive layout has been a native feature for every browser since HTML 4?

Patrick Kunka found a hack to use “text-align: justify” as a higly compatible layout grid module. Try his codepen example or read his blog post.

"The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except..."

polarity — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:30:12 +0200

“The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA “help information” trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled.”

- Telepolis - How NSA access was built into Windows

An article back from 1999 about NSA Backdoors on Windows95.

It’s supposed to write once, run everywhere. But...

polarity — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:30:17 +0200

It’s supposed to write once, run everywhere. But it’s more like write once, ruin everything…

Fancywebapps animated widgets

polarity — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:00:53 +0200

Fancywebapps animated widgets:

Fancywebapps is a PHP + Javascript framework intended to make websites such as the one you’re viewing now easier and quicker to build. It consists of several components that work together, to form a flexible web based desktop. All of these components can be themed with your own artwork, press the “coin” logo in the far top-left on this page to get a new background.

i really hope this library is a joke.

Erik Spiekermann über iOS 7 (von Thorsten Wulff)

polarity — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:30:23 +0200

Erik Spiekermann über iOS 7 (von Thorsten Wulff)

PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever

polarity — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:30:21 +0200

PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever:

If you want to know just how crazy fear over PRISM-like surveillance has made the Internet, take a look at DuckDuckGo.

"It’s the destruction of the web, collateral damage. There is no method that I’m aware of which would..."

polarity — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:00:57 +0200

“It’s the destruction of the web, collateral damage. There is no method that I’m aware of which would allow a search engine to function successfully on the web the way it works today that will not result into damage to the very thing it tries to navigate.”

- The Destruction Of The Web - Jacques Mattheij

Native equivalents of jQuery functions

polarity — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:06:22 +0200

Native equivalents of jQuery functions:

I think there are many developers who don’t realize that most of the jQuery methods they use have native equivalents that require the same or only a slighter larger amount of code to use. Below are a series of code samples showing some popular jQuery functions along with their native counterparts.

HTML5 ScummVM

polarity — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:43:51 +0200

HTML5 ScummVM:

emscripten port of the ScummVM with playable Demos of Monkey Island and Loom.

iOS7

polarity — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:54:35 +0200

iOS7

python sweetness: Devs, please stop serving .git to the outside world!

polarity — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:30:17 +0200

python sweetness: Devs, please stop serving .git to the outside world!:

pythonsweetness:

According to a quick gevent script, >0.7% of the first 100,000 sites from Alexa’s top 1 million sites are serving their .git directories to the outside world.

A quick glance at the produced list reveals several interesting domains, including the FCC, some *chan boards, one SAAS security vendor…

ExplorerCanvas

polarity — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:00:33 +0200

ExplorerCanvas:

Modern browsers like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera support the HTML5 canvas tag to allow 2D command-based drawing. ExplorerCanvas brings the same functionality to Internet Explorer. To use, web developers only need to include a single script tag in their existing web pages.

this might come in handy

Apple said developers attending WWDC would learn about the...

polarity — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:00:48 +0200

Apple said developers attending WWDC would learn about the future of iOS and OS X.

Looks like OSX and iOS going flat, colourful and “Helvetica Ultra Thin”.

"Apple’s products say “no” a lot. No, you can’t have that hardware keyboard or removable battery. No,..."

polarity — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:30:24 +0200

“Apple’s products say “no” a lot. No, you can’t have that hardware keyboard or removable battery. No, you can’t install that app. No, you can’t have that feature. These are usually compromises to improve the products in other ways. But if that missing app or feature is important to you, it’s easy to be put off by Apple’s refusal to deliver it, especially since it’s done in such an opinionated manner, as if to say, “Not only do we not offer that, but nobody should need that.” As Apple has grown, so has the number of people who have fallen on the wrong end of its opinionated product design. It leaves so many markets, features, and needs unaddressed that many users are effectively forced into alternatives. And two alternatives offer to please everyone.”

- Marco.org

I tend to think that Android or Microsoft users are users that want to have “more” technology in thei´re lives and Apple users want as few as possible.

With “more” i mean, they want THIS software, THAT Skin or want to configure some boot parameters on their own. Apple users are mostly the other way around. Apple says “use this, it´s the best way to do this sort of stuff”. And most of the time (speaking for myself) they are right, and sometimes not. Technology should be there to enrich you´re current life and not to add some additional (technical) problems.

I think the biggest problem between the different fanboys are the type of thei´re thinking where this whole technology thing should be moving. There are really much different layers on it. Linux users arguing in terms of openess and “coding for fun”. Apple users are heading torwards useability and “getting things done with the best known ” and MS & Android users want both at the same time, maybe?

can´t wait (via...

polarity — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:30:02 +0200

can´t wait (via https://twitter.com/xstex/status/343143960228810753)

"These men all deserve the success Vesper will enjoy. But let’s recognize that it will succeed not..."

polarity — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:30:27 +0200

“These men all deserve the success Vesper will enjoy. But let’s recognize that it will succeed not because of a few interesting design decisions and the work of the past few months.”

- Why Vesper will Succeed « Trevor McKendrick

About the new not taking app “vesper” by John Gruber, Dave Wiskus, and Brent Simmons for $4.99 without cloud sync

HTML Includes!

polarity — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:36:24 +0200

HTML Includes!:

To round out our new Pens as Resources feature, we’ve now made it possible to include the HTML of a Pen in another Pen. We wanted to make this as flexible as possible, meaning you can put the HTML anywhere you want and include as many other Pens HTML as you need.

Thats a nice addition to css/js includes.