http://blog.pint.com The company blog for Pint Inc. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:56:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In our every busy lives it is common that we often short-circuit our evaluation of situations because the cost of a complex and thoughtful decision may outweigh the negative consequences of making a mistake or simply the thinking required may not be time affordable given all the other burdens we may have. ... http://blog.pint.com/2010/03/03/thoughts-about-social-proof-online/ If you do any work with IE8 at all you are surely familiar with its various compatibility modes.  Basically the browser will flip into quirks mode or strict mode depending on the doctype and you can of course force the issue with <meta> tags or HTTP headers.  Now generally when people discuss ... http://blog.pint.com/2010/03/01/ie8-yes-compat-mode-is-supposed-to-do-that/ When trying to build an accessible Web site it is often a good idea to put in a link for screen readers to jump over repetitive navigation elements on page and hit the content of the page.  It might look something like <div id="skip"><a href="#content">Skip to content</a></div> Next using CSS you would set #skip ... http://blog.pint.com/2010/02/26/skip-to-nav-vs-skip-to-content/ This is a sweet little video put out by rethinkscholarship.com. It's a nice reminder when designing all day, that there are some things you can do to keep your work fresh. Also the video itself is so nice looking! Have a look. Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from ... http://blog.pint.com/2010/01/26/things-to-remember-for-designers/ [caption id="attachment_573" align="aligncenter" width="680" caption="lame font"][/caption] So we went and saw the much talked about Avatar last weekend. The movie and the 3d was pretty cool, but one thing kept bugging me, the font. So they spent 300 million making this movie, yet they used a font that is free with ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/12/31/avatar-font-sadness/ This a little something we made to spread a little holiday cheer. We hope you like it as much as we do. http://www.pint.com/html-email/2009-holiday-email/landing-page/ Also as a special treat for the blog readers here are some holiday wallpapers: [gallery link="file" orderby="title"] http://blog.pint.com/2009/12/17/happy-holidays-from-pint/ An interesting data point backing a theory that the Tweeto'sphere doesn't map to general population (not yet) http://tinyurl.com/ycgh86w # Top Word of 2009: "Twitter" http://tinyurl.com/ydgzktr # Rightward scrolling in a solar system infographic - http://tinyurl.com/yhzslkj Really drives home the empty space and scale of things! # Markup for ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/12/07/pint-tweets-for-2009-12-08/ #HTML5 note: remove easy and useful data- attributes because of something few use & many find too complex!? http://tinyurl.com/yenzllq # Socratic method? Instead spot the lie as a teaching tool. http://tinyurl.com/66ca92 These days one person's lie = anothers point of view # Peering maps are back this time for ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/11/30/pint-tweets-for-2009-11-30/ #IE9 info soon http://tinyurl.com/ykzzlyt please Redmond can we have some CSS, HTML5, JS improvements, maybe <canvas> even? # Despite usability studies pointing out rare use, here's a real reason for breadcrumbs in your Website design http://tinyurl.com/yzwbt3e) # Well the #IE9 info is so far underwhelming http://tinyurl.com/yft9kmc though JS speed improvement ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/11/23/pint-tweets-for-2009-11-23/ Geeky laws....not sure how bacon is geeky but many of these are certainly true http://tinyurl.com/yegvohd # Reading about SPDY http://bit.ly/1l5zJm Finally movement on HTTP! # http://blog.pint.com/2009/11/16/pint-tweets-for-2009-11-16/