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Sandra Earl

Tim Anderson's ITWriting - Tech writing blog » Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love ... - 0 views

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  • 3. Easy conversion of existing Flex or HTML applications. It’s the same basic runtime. In the case of HTML, AIR apps rely on WebKit, the core component in Apple’s Safari web browser.
  • 7. Rich design and multimedia. This is Flash, so ideal for highly customized UIs, animation, sound and video. Adobe is proving the point by creating a media player built with AIR. Existing Flash developers can easily use their skills to build AIR applications.
  • 4. Proprietary technology. AIR applications depend on Adobe’s runtime.
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  • 6. No model for commercial components. It is not clear to me how a component vendor could sell an AIR component while protecting it from unlicensed deployment. This may limit the availability of 3rd party components, with a corresponding impact on productivity.
  • 7. Schizophrenic development model. AIR supports either Flex development, or HTML applications which run in WebKit. The ugly side of this flexibility is that there are two SDKs, even two JavaScript virtual machines with different capabilities and characteristics. While it is nice to have a way to render HTML, I am not convinced that the web application model is worth it, given the complications it causes. After all, web applications run perfectly well in the browser.
  • Lack of UI standards may lead to annoying inconsistencies between AIR applications. We are used to this on the Web; now it is coming to the desktop as well.
Sandra Earl

YUI Theater - Karo Caran and Victor Tsaran: "Introduction to Screen Magnifier... - 0 views

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  • With the goal of better understanding how people interact with the Web via various types of Assistive Technology (AT) — and what that might mean for developers and designers — Karo Caran takes us on a 16 minute overview of screen magnification software (in this case ZoomText) and how it is used by partially-sighted users to interact with the Web. Karo shows you the basic toolkit and then applies those tools to some typical web sites to give you some perspective on how she uses magnification software while she browses the web.
Sandra Earl

YUI Theater - Doug Geoffray: "From the Mouth of a Screenreader" » Yahoo! User... - 0 views

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  • he context is important for us on the frontend as we begin to confront the same challenges that desktop software developers have been addressing for many years.
  • Doug been a touchstone for us at YUI in the research and development of our Menu Control, a project that is helping us to lay a foundation for what is possible in terms of DHTML accessibility as YUI evolves.
Vernon Fowler

Why describe movie lengths in minutes, and not hours AND minutes? - Straight Dope Messa... - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 27 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • 167 minutes is clearer in meaning Does 2:47 mean "2 hours, 47 minutes", "2 minutes, 47 seconds" or 2:47 pm?
Vernon Fowler

5 Ways to Offer a Better UX for Disabled Users - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 08 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Vernon Fowler on 08 Mar 16
     
    Empathy is unrivalled as a skill a user interface designer should have. Walking in somebody else's shoes (or seeing through their eyes may be a better metaphor), can be a temporary replacement for having a user/tester at hand. Let's take a look at some disabilities that we so often forget.
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