Quotes

  • Apple’s and RIM’s game is selling the integrated whole — their own devices, running their own software. Google is playing Microsoft’s game — licensing a platform to many device makers. John Gruber, DaringFireball.net
  • Everything is unminified in Texas. @TXJS Headed to Austin, Texas for the weekend with @DavidKaneda and @EdSpencer.
  • Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. Apple’s new HTML5 page.
  • Don’t worry about UX being marginalized. It’s just a term. It will be the people who make false promises and don’t do actual UX work who will become marginalized. The excellent (and beautiful) 52 Weeks of UX tumblelog. (Via Ext JS.)
  • The next person to call any CSS effects sexy should really have some sex to see the difference. Christian Heilmann
  • I can’t even eat. The food keeps touching. I like military plates, I’m a military man, I want a military meal. I want my string beans to be quarantined! I like a little fortress around my mashed potatoes so the meatloaf doesn’t invade my mashed potatoes and cause mixing in my plate! I HATE IT […]
  • The people who bought the first iPhone, and the people who are now buying the iPad, are not these people. Early adopters will browse the web on their new devices even more than they feel like, or enjoy, or need to, because it’s novel and we like doing novel technological things. Marco Arment
  • Ext JS allowed us to develop a rich, sophisticated interface in less time and with a smaller development team than would have been needed with other JavaScript UI frameworks. Jeff Nadler, Director of Product Development at Attensa, quoted in our latest Ext JS Spotlight article. (via Ext JS ttumblelog)
  • I love reading #EEE Verdana at 1.8 ems of line-height set against #4A525A.
  • I’m not saying you want an iPad or need one (or any of the upcoming tablets) — I don’t get commission. I’m just saying, what’s the big deal? It’s a computer and television and radio and newspaper and book and magazine and game console and Internet the size of a piece of paper and the […]
  • One of the more attractive traits I can assign to a technology is how well it can support all the different tasks I might want to give it. Whether I need to hack up a prototype quickly, sprinkle in some Ajax, or build a brand-new custom framework, Ext has always pulled through nicely. Brice Mason, […]
  • I propose a new language, Suggestive-C. All keywords are inuendo. Matt Comi
  • I’m convinced it would be huge, even with the dumbest domain. Look at chatroulette, who would have thought people could spell roulette? And yet here we are, sitting with our dicks in hand as living, throbbing proof. Peter Vidani on the importance of a good domain name. (via Jacob Bijani)
  • [Steve Jobs] did the same thing with the original Mac, although then, Flash was not the issue. Few will remember, but, when the Mac debuted in 1984, there were no arrow keys on the keyboard. That was a big deal. Almost every application then in existence depended on the arrow keys (then called cursor keys) […]
  • Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile […]