What technology is MacRumors using to update their page so tidily?
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amych - Jun 11, 2007 9:03:58 am PDT #1857 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
-t - Jun 11, 2007 9:06:02 am PDT #1858 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I tend to use iGoogle more than Dashboard, probably becuase I can just have a tab open to google all the time and I forget what's available on Dashboard.
amych - Jun 11, 2007 9:07:14 am PDT #1859 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Tiger cereal (Grrrreat!) -- I'm still on Panther, so no Dashboard for me; when I accidentally launch it on another machine, it feels very "this is not my environment!" to me. But then I suspect that I'd get into if I had it tweaked for my habits/workflow/whatev, and I like the web clip thingy, but the standard stuff that a lot of people don't seem to have changed from the default doesn't do much for me that I can't do with just feeds and knowing how to switch around fairly efficiently.
§ ita § - Jun 11, 2007 9:08:16 am PDT #1860 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, bless. That's a cool interface there on MacRumours. I hate the refreshing of the whole page.
Probably much less so if you live in LA, though.
I would contend that...but I just finished minimising the weather widget on iGoogle. It's there, you know, just in case something changes (I need to be alerted when the average temperature over a span of days is going to rise or fall by a delta of more than 5 degree Fahrenheit. That would be LA useful...I mean, inasmuch as it'd go off five or six times a year).
Tom Scola - Jun 11, 2007 9:09:25 am PDT #1861 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
What technology is MacRumors using to update their page so tidily?
XMLHttpRequest, a.k.a. AJAX.
§ ita § - Jun 11, 2007 9:10:54 am PDT #1862 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can just have a tab open to google all the time and I forget what's available on Dashboard.
Yes, this. Although I can google from every screen in Opera, as well as from context-sensitive highlights in the text, I keep an iGoogle page open anyway. My standard computer workflow has me periodically check my browser, and my standard browser workflow has me periodically check every tab (that way I actually close them in a more timely fashion) so I even get my news that way.
Hmm. If I add movies to iGoogle, I'll barely need my Yahoo! anymore...
I'll be back.
amych - Jun 11, 2007 9:13:25 am PDT #1863 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
XMLHttpRequest, a.k.a. AJAX.
Yeah, but AJAX with a lot of thought given to optimizing the interface for just what's needed to be fast and clean for this high-load stuff. I love it. Especially with those other tabs open to compare it to....
§ ita § - Jun 11, 2007 9:16:18 am PDT #1864 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Safari on Windows--why bother?
Tom Scola - Jun 11, 2007 9:19:14 am PDT #1865 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Especially with those other tabs open to compare it to....
Yeah, Gizmodo was bragging this morning how fast their liveblogging would be. They got PWNED.
Jon B. - Jun 11, 2007 9:19:26 am PDT #1866 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Why would I want to run Safari on my Windows box vs. Firefox?
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