Comments on: 150. User Manipulation

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:30:56 +0000

Probably a better way to add PNG support is http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/ It also supports background-position and background-repeat and supports the A:hover pseudo-class. And thankfully it lacks some of the bugs you'll find with DD_belatedPNG fix.

By: Nick Morss

Nick Morss — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:44:52 +0000

IE6 is not the only version with PNG issues. IE7 has problems tiling small (dimension) PNG's. http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2007/02/05/ie-vs-png-the-battle-continues/ The solution they use isn't great though, the easiest way is to simply increase the dimensions of the tile making it a heavier image but more manageable as IE7 only needs to create a fraction of the instances of that image to tile. As usual, liking the podcasts, even better when you ask yourself questions you cant answer...like VML, but hay were only human... for now!? Cheers Nick

By: SBL photo manipulation

SBL photo manipulation — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:32:23 +0000

Great stuff!

By: Mauricio Wolff

Mauricio Wolff — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:57:26 +0000

VML = Vector Markup Language Vector Markup Language (VML) is an XML language used to produce vector graphics. VML was submitted as a proposed standard to the W3C in 1998 by Microsoft, Macromedia, and others. Around the same time other competing W3C submissions were received in the area of web vector graphics, such as PGML from Adobe, Sun, and others. As a result of these submissions, a new W3C working group was created, which produced SVG. Even though largely ignored by developers, Microsoft still implemented VML into Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher and in Microsoft Office 2000 and higher. Google Maps currently uses VML for rendering vectors when running on Internet Explorer 5.5+, and SVG on other browsers. The Vector Markup Language is specified in Part 4 of the Office Open XML standards ISO/IEC 29500:2008 and ECMA-376. Too well written to be mine. : ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Markup_Language

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:17:39 +0000

Paul, Regarding the pbwiki example mentioned late in the show, you advocated allowing a user to spend time creating something and then ambushing them late in the process with a fee or they face losing all of their hard work. Perhaps you didn't mean this. Nothing will turn me against a company faster than this technique. If there is a fee for a service, it had better be clear from the the beginning.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:21:00 +0000

Great show as always. I really enjoyed the interview. What was that usability podcast that Paul mentioned called? What other usability/UX podcasts do people recommend?