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

    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. :-)

     

    • 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…

  • Jakub Pawlowicz 8:31 am on January 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: comparison, drawit, patterns   

    Quick: A really nice comparison pattern 

    Yesterday I found a DrawIt (really good vector graphics tool for Mac) page updated to a new layout. What brought my attention was a comparison between full and lite version of DrawIt:

    draw-it-lite-comparison

    It is really well done. Stripped down to minimum. Like it!

     

  • Jakub Pawlowicz 2:20 pm on August 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: credit card, date picker, expiration date, git, github, month picker,   

    GitHub month picker done the easy way 

    Small but useful. The GitHub sign up page have 4 fields for credit card details: card type, card number, expiration month and year. The one that is interesting is the third one, the expiration month. As always it’s goes from January to December, but not exactly like this. Actually the labels go from “1 – January” to “12 – December” starting with a month number instead of month name.

     

     

    It’s not a big deal when you select the value with mouse, but selecting it via keyboard is much easier due to these fancy numbers. Selecting August is as simple as focusing on the list and hitting ‘8′. February? It’s ‘2′. July? It’s ‘7′. Notice this is much shorter as you need to hit only on key instead of hitting ‘Jul’ on the keyboard – there is also June, and January which share the same starting letters! Very easy and convenient. That’s how it should be!

    Kudos to GitHub for figuring it out!

     

  • Jakub Pawlowicz 12:55 pm on March 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: nba, ,   

    NBA website and presenting relevant content 

    I’ve spotted this nice feature today morning. As you may know (if you are a NBA fan like me) the NBA season is moving into the final phase before playoffs start in April. I have a RSS subscription for the recent game results but I visit the website to check the league tables. There are 2 useful types of table layouts: the division one, which is more convenient in the beginning of the season, and the conference one which is useful when season ends as some teams are struggling to find their way into playoffs and it’s easier to compare their positions in two tables rather than six ones.

    And here’s a nice feature: so far by clicking “Standings” link in the website’s main menu you were taken into division tables page, but from now on (as the season ends) this link will take you directly to the more relevant conference tables. Very nice way to show info that currently matters the most.

     

    • Tina Russell 1:00 pm on March 31, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      I finally decided to write a comment on your blog. I just wanted to say good job. I really enjoy reading your posts.

      Tina Russell

    • Jakub Pawlowicz 4:13 pm on April 1, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Tina, thanks for reading and I’m really glad you like it!!

  • Jakub Pawlowicz 5:38 pm on July 30, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , human interface guidelines, , 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.

     

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