The Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) has traditionally been an IE/PC problem, and one with a solution.
Recently I’ve been seeing it in Safari, once or twice a day many times a day. Anybody know what the deal is?
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FOUC Safari?
May 31, ’05
3:59 PM
Holy Guacamole!
May 31, ’05
3:03 PM
Jeffrey Zeldman, the uber-mensch of web developers, has been online for 10 years. 10! Modesty does not prevent me from telling you that I remember the Dr. Web feature very well, it helped me build my first site (for a now-defunct non-profit web site).
It’s no stretch to say he was among the best there was, and even less so to say he’s among the best there is.
Congrats!
FAQs that Aren’t
May 26, ’05
6:12 PM
I’ve been guilty of this myself, but it seems to me that the “Frequently Asked Question” label is more and more often being applied to questions that really ought to be labeled “Things Our Marketing Department Wants You To Know.”
The question that spurred this post is in Bloglines’ FAQ list: “How Does Bloglines Cure Information Overload?” People don’t ask questions with buzzwords in them. What the question really should be is, “How does Bloglines make my life easier?”
I’m going to add FAQs that Aren’t to this list every once in a while, feel free to add your own in the comments.
- Technorati: What is the World Live Web™?
This seems to be an example of a company trying to support the buzz around a newly-coined phrase. This feels odd since the phrase doesn’t seem to occur anywhere on their site (except the FAQs).
New Design: More
May 26, ’05
5:51 PM
Shaun Inman has just launched the website for More, a graphic design and PR firm in Baltimore. The site is an exercise in minimalism and graceful web design, and I adore the nav scheme — that is to say, I adore that the site is so lean that all the content is gracefully presented in one page. Less is more in this case, to be slightly trite.
Some people find fault with the navigation scheme in that, in Safari and IE, using the nav breaks the nav button by not appending the anchor location of the info you’re jumping to at the end of the URL in the address bar. I’d guess this is a simple JS tweak to make sure the info makes it into the address bar; I wish I had time to look into it (because it would be fun, and I’m a dork like that), but maybe Shaun will at some point.
Web Developer Elitism?
May 26, ’05
2:52 PM
So, this one bittorrent site got shut down by the FBI, and where the old site was the fibbies have put up their own, uber-red notification page.
I’m not a big torrent user, and, while I think file-sharing services should be able to run un-hampered, and do not believe that movie or music sharing is hurting their respective industries in any way (in fact, I’m among those who believe that sharing technologies will only do good things in the future towards the evolution and democratization of the entertainment industry), I’ve chosen not to care all that much about the issue, since I only have so much RAM, and I’m choosing to care about other things.
That’s probably the longest sentence I’ve ever written.
So, perhaps it’s my low-level interest that leads me to this observation: BoingBoing, Slashdot and Metafilter have all made note of this news, and users on all three sites have commented that if you view the source of the page, you cam tell the FBI used Microsoft Word to generate the page.
BoingBoing: “1) The feds use MS Word for their page designs. Silly.”
Metafilter: “It’s ironic that these people supposedly policing the internet seem to have used Word to make that utterly simple webpage…”
Slashdot: “Sweet mother of God, what an ugly page. View source and it gets even scarier…”
My question is: Who cares, and why are they surprised? (I guess that’s kind of two questions.)
The page in question was likely developed very quickly, they obviously didn’t have a designer on board, so the project as a whole could probably be charitably considered a “slap dash” effort. Do we really expect some FBI administrative assistant to have HTML skills, or even Dreamweaver/FrontPage, at their disposal, much less know how to use it?
Ask anyone without HTML skills (but with MS Office skills) to create an HTML page, they’re going to head straight for Word. It’s what they use and there’s a prominent “Save as Web Page” command right in the file menu.