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Comment Re:Cool tech, but (Score 1) 333

by sudonymous (#40157359) Attached to: LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display

Depends on what you mean by "make out pixels".

Can you see a single pixel? Well, yeah, probably. Even if your eye can't resolve it, it will change the overall brightness of the smallest area your eye can resolve. So, you'll "see" it.

However, can you tell if it moves over by 1 pixel? Or could you tell the difference between a straight line 1 pixel thin, vs. a line that was actually a 2-pixel tall checkerboard pattern with the same average brightness? Etc.

Turn a single pixel on or off and you can probably see that, but that doesn't mean it's significant in the overall scheme of things. Especially with anti-aliasing in addition.

Comment Re:An example (Score 1) 224

by sudonymous (#40156811) Attached to: Hundreds of IP Addresses Make Pirate Bay a Hard Target

The fallacy is that her time is too valuable to learn GIMP, but her budget is too cheap to buy Photoshop. Pick one or the other, not both.

If her time is really so valuable that she can't afford to spend a few hours learning GIMP, then I don't believe she really can't afford Photoshop. People's time is valuable IFF they are rich.

Comment Re:IE can just be a pain... (Score 1) 273

by sudonymous (#40146665) Attached to: Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings

Then again - maybe not. I think it has to have a certain position style, too. Not sure. I at least know that in IE an absolutely-positioned div with specified heights and widths will be a minimum height if you don't set the overflow property. Firefox and Opera don't need an overflow property if there is an explicit height specified.

Comment Re:Nowadays (Score 1) 273

by sudonymous (#40146457) Attached to: Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings

When you employ good practices with HTML and CSS, making a page look and display properly in IE8+ is trivial.

The following is perfectly good HTML and CSS. Why don't you test it and tell me which browsers it looks and displays properly in.

<html>
<body>
<div style="color:red;font-weight:bold;height:0px;overflow:hidden;">Broken!</div>
<div style="width:80px;border-right:solid 80px white;overflow:hidden;">Works</div>
</body>
</html>

Comment Re:Just curious (Score 1) 273

by sudonymous (#40144851) Attached to: Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings

The short answer is: Nobody should be abandoning "alt" - it's required for compatibility and accessibility.

"title", if it is provided, is just a snippet of extra text that relates to the image. It should not be redundant to the image itself. Browsers which can display the image should also have some way to display its title (usually when the mouse is hovered over it). In fact, "title" is not specific to the img tag. Many HTML elements can have a title attribute.

"alt" is the alternate text, to be shown by browsers which can't display the image (search engine robots, braille displays, screen reading software). It should be redundant to the image itself. Browser which can display images can simply display the image and ignore the alt text.

Note that IE7 and previous versions of IE incorrectly displayed the "alt" text as a tooltip. That is incorrect. The "title" should be a tooltip, "alt" should not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_attribute

Comment Re:So what you're saying here... (Score 1) 126

by sudonymous (#40077505) Attached to: Judge Orders Verizon Subscriber Identities Sealed

Perhaps you could shed a little more light on things.

The average person sees a deadline as something you don't want to miss, but can be early on. So the typical response here is "Verizon was ordered to do by the 12th, they did 5 days early, what's the problem?".

Now, I've done a little digging around, and apparently the defendant normally has the right to submit a motion for the subpoena to be modified or quashed, if their motion is submitted prior to the returnable date of the subpoena. So how exactly does this work? Is there an unspoken, unwritten rule that you aren't supposed to deliver documents ordered by a subpoena prior to the subpoena's returnable date, to allow for it to be contested?

And then the motion to quash was filed by a pro se litigant - not by Verizon. The subpoena ordered Verizon to provide the data and Verizon happily complied. So where did this John Doe pro se litigant come from? And why were they able to file a motion to quash? Was the John Doe implicated prior to the information being handed over? or after? Do we know if Verizon knew of the motion to quash? Do we know if Verizon knew that the pro se litigant even existed and had the right to file a motion to quash?

I think I had more questions, but I've forgotten them now...

Comment Re:No wonder Chrome is gaining users (Score 2) 449

by sudonymous (#40068405) Attached to: Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser

There is no such thing as "HTML5"

FTFY. It is a work in progress. Nothing called "HTML5" has been agreed upon by all parties.

those sites are just HTML5, that will work with Chrome

Because Google paid to have them work with Chrome. And since HTML5 isn't a standard, other browsers don't act exactly the same as Chrome, so it won't work quite the same. Not that it couldn't, if someone paid to have it developed for the other browser.

The sites will also run on other browsers if they support HTML5; it's hardly Google's fault if other browsers do not support HTML5, is it?

It's hardly other browsers' fault if Google decides to make Chrome slightly different, since there's no standard for HTML5 yet. Other browsers will support HTML5 once HTML5 actually exists. Right now it's a mish-mash of features that everyone calls "HTML5" but aren't standard across-the-board.

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