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• Jakub Pawlowicz 10:13 pm on September 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: canvas, css3, cutting-edge, font embedding, html5 (2)   

  Living on the Edge 

  In the past months I have been experimenting with cutting-edge web technologies and in the same time I decided push my current website a little further.

  For the sake of the experiment the way I took a “top-down” approach in requirements by ditching all browsers older than 2 versions back which gave me a lot of space to play. One thing I always wanted to push to a working website was Canvas 2D API and it fit there perfectly. Also advanced CSS3 and HTML5 made their way into that new project and both proved its value.

  Enough writing. I would like to present you an “edge” version of jakubpawlowicz.com website which is now available under edge.jakubpawlowicz.com

  You may not notice a difference between edge and standard version at the first glance, but it was my aim to keep it looking the same while rebuilding the insides.
  I encourage you to dig it inside out, write down your comments, questions or suggestions and share them if you like the idea. Enjoy!

  PS) Internet Explorer is not yet supported. Work in progress. :-)

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  • American Yak 4:55 pm on September 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    Maybe IE is supported now! (Google Chrome Frame!)

    • Jakub Pawlowicz 9:58 pm on September 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      That’s definitely an option worth considering however still in pre beta phase. It would be easier to maintain one codebase instead of patching IE once again…

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• Jakub Pawlowicz 7:36 am on January 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: goldenline (2), interaction design (2), ux (3)   

  Login screen done the wrong way – revisited 

  A few months back I wrote an article about GoldenLine.pl social networking site, where I pointed out a bad approach they have taken while implementing the login procedure. Since then I have written 3 or 4 emails to their contact box reporting this issue and suggesting I could even help fixing it. I was expecting at least a “thank you” letter, but received completely nothing. If I had received an email saying “you are a UX freak and we hate such people”, I would have understood.

  I’m certainly disappointed by their behavior, but I hope some day the change their minds. I will wait. I have plenty of time.

   

• Jakub Pawlowicz 12:05 pm on December 12, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Site redesign 

  As you may have already noticed during the recent weeks I’ve been busy updating my home page. Right now its first revision is pretty much finished with only minor things left out for update in the coming days.

  Feel invited to check what have changed and drop a comment on what you do and don’t like.

  For the web-savvy  users – you may find it interesting to check how the page looks like in different browsers as I used progressive enhancement to provide more functionality in modern, more advanced browsers (like Firefox, Safari or Chrome).

  Enjoy!

   

• Jakub Pawlowicz 7:31 pm on October 14, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Design, Pixelmator (2)   

  Pixelmator update – just on time 

  That was fun. I’ve been just going through Veerle’s tutorial about creating Leopard-style text insets in Pixelmator. I saved my file and noticed that after save it looked different than before saving. So I closed file and reopened it – nope, Pixelmator hanged. Once again – same effect. I was going to report a bug to Pixelmator, so I started navigating through their site and discovered the 1.0.1 update which has just been released! Installing the update did the trick, my file opened, and I could finish the tutorial.

  Good job Pixelmator team!

  PS) If you are interested in the final effect, here is the final PNG file.

   

• Jakub Pawlowicz 9:24 pm on September 30, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Pixelmator (2)   

  Growing with Pixelmator 

  Since Thursday I’m a happy user of Pixelmator – the great Mac-native graphics editing program, which I’ve been beta testing recently.
  Because Pixelmator just have reached 1.0 milestone it means it’s not a fully professional editing suite yet. Today, I’ve realized it’s even good – as it lacks some advanced features I can learn the basics first and then move to advanced ones as Pixelmator develops. I have started today with Pixelmator manual. Wish me luck! :-))

   

• Jakub Pawlowicz 5:38 pm on July 30, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: apple (7), human interface guidelines, macos x (3), undo   

  Warning does not mean undo 

  There’s a really interesting article recently posted on A List Apart called “Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo”. Generally speaking it is about overuse of warnings and not allowing users to undo the operations.
  It is (as always?) already clearly stated in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines that the only reason to display a warning is an unrecoverable or a very long operation. That simply implies the fact that undo should be available to most of the system commands. As always Apple was first, but what have been obvious in the desktop space (MacOS X at least) hadn’t been so in the web space till Web 2.0 arrived.

  If you are interested go ahead and check the ALA article. If you want more, then Apple HIG site covers even more than needed.

   

• Jakub Pawlowicz 5:59 pm on May 1, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 37Signals, Getting Real, Ruby, The Matrix   

  Welcome to the real world 

  Yes, you are right. That’s what Morpheus says to Neo when he wakes up out of the matrix. And that’s what comes to my mind after reading “Getting Real” from 37Signals. Somewhere it’s revolutionary, somewhere it’s obvious, but puts all the puzzles in one place in a condensed and very understandable way. Plus the quotations from other authors / web developers / designers shows a big picture of how they managed to succeed in their work.
  What makes this book great is also its style of writing. Chapters are short and concise. This reminds me of style of ones in Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code”, where chapters are very short so the story doesn’t get boring but becomes more interesting as you read it.

  After all I’m really happy I read this book and I recommend it to all of you – even you don’t write software at all. So go and read it at 37Signals website or ask me for my paper copy.