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Comment on The HTML5 Super Friends, Who are they? by Chris Lamothe

Chris Lamothe — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:23:18 +0000

That’s a fair point Ian, I definitely missed the subtly of that in their statement, although I certainly sensed the “we’re a team of web developers who must be heard” attitude.

The squeaky wheel…

Comment on The HTML5 Super Friends, Who are they? by Ian Hickson

Ian Hickson — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:12:29 +0000

They haven’t actually chimed in on what concerns them most about HTML5 yet — the feedback they wrote hasn’t been sent to the working group. All they did is write a blog post about how they will one day send that feedback. Hundreds of people before them have managed to send feedback to the working group without announcing it with such fanfare first, so I don’t know what they’re waiting for.

Comment on The New Face of Fonts on the Web by Chris Lamothe

Chris Lamothe — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:22:26 +0000

Andrew, you’re right. I had meant to mention Opera separately from Safari and Chrome. Opera 10 alpha supports @font-face in the same way that Firefox, Safari and Chrome do.

Comment on The New Face of Fonts on the Web by Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:38:50 +0000

Opera is not based on WebKit. Check wikipedia if you don’t believe me. Fortunately their latest alpha does support @font-face.

Comment on The New Face of Fonts on the Web by Neale McDavitt

Neale McDavitt — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:44:54 +0000

I’ll bet font-makers are terrified about this, because I assume it also leaves the font out in the open for anyone with basic web knowledge to download and use. Still pretty cool though.

Comment on Don’t refactor on a Friday afternoon! by Josh Nursing

Josh Nursing — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:55:14 +0000

Generally, refactoring or optimization should be the last thing you do.

If you have lots of programming experience, then some optimized constructs should come immediately, but otherwise you should concentrate on writing code which works.

Also, if you’ve spent enough time doing the functional specs and the design, you’d not need that much refactoring.

Comment on Don’t refactor on a Friday afternoon! by Chris Lamothe

Chris Lamothe — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:55:19 +0000

macournoyer is right, the examples I listed weren’t necessarily the most productive ones. I’ve updated the post as a result. On the other hand, Friday afternoon seems to be ideal for posting on one’s blog.

Comment on Don’t refactor on a Friday afternoon! by Darin Kadrioski

Darin Kadrioski — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:32:15 +0000

In communist Russia, code refactors *you*!

Comment on Don’t refactor on a Friday afternoon! by macournoyer

macournoyer — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:30:45 +0000

Hey Chris,

Although I agree you should not start any big refactoring on friday (or anything big at all), I think friday is the perfect time to fix the little things that you told yourself you’d do later but never did.

Like refactoring that each or times block to inject, fixing the html in views. Things that just make your code looks cool.
Or maybe adding some tests breaking existing code.
Just really tiny refactoring that ease the mind are fun and help you leave the office with a great sense of “devoir accompli”.

Comment on Don’t refactor on a Friday afternoon! by heri

heri — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:50:51 +0000

this is funny. i picture you cursing and doing reverts with svn right now