JR: Design by Writing - Links to external sources of inspiration, along with a few links to my own thoughts. https://marco.org/2013/03/02/type-engine Content Good Writing and Editing Is Part of Great Design Content is the hero Content as Medium Words Reminder: Des... more>> 9 min read
- Apr 03, 2016 - #design #writing #reading #web #blog_jr

JR: Video ads within Facebook's Instant Articles - March 31, 2016 I'm pointing out the inadequate writing, contained within this WSJ article. The social network said it will also allow publishers to place one additional ad unit at the bottom of every Instant Article, which it estimated could inc... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 31, 2016 - #ia #advertising #mobile #web #media #design #moronism

JR: Web browser speed - march 2016 - https://blog.runspired.com/2016/03/25/the-chrome-distortion-chrome-alters-our-expectations-in-highly-negative-ways/ No browser is perfect, this is an unfortunate situation we must live with. But ranking my experience developing responsive hybrid ap... more>>
- Mar 30, 2016 - #web #browser

JR: Having search engines index a website - Useful for sites that use a database or produce static files. i rely on my basic, built-in search capabilities for my sites that use MySQL and CouchDB/Elasticsearch. But this info would be helpful for searching sites built with my static-file blog a... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 19, 2016 - #web #blogging #search #wren

JR: March 2016 mainstream media article design layouts - #media #design #web
- Mar 12, 2016

JR: Newspapers are executing a war on the web - my notes/thoughts from this stream ... ... have been copied here: "Forget Spotlight: There's a war against journalism" - - #media #moronism #humor #entertainment - a lot of whining from a media person about the entertainer Trump. it's not politi... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 01, 2016 - #media #moronism #humor #entertainment #speed #design #web

JR: Tt post about web site colors - sat, jan 23, 2016 - "if anything black on a medium to light grey is easiest on my eyes." The text color here is not quite black. I use hex code 222 instead of 000, which is black. MIJeff, try these options for changing the background color at TT: light grey medium g... more>> 1 min read
- Jan 23, 2016 - #reading #design #web

JR: Tt post jan 8 2016 - "... the obituaries completely disappear at night. Why the gap at night?" I read this thread last night, and I viewed the obits page, and I noticed that the obits are published at another site and not at the ToledoBlade.com. Since legacy.com hos... more>> 1 min read
- Jan 08, 2016 - #web #design #media #toledo

JR: Links about Cross-origin resource sharing - CORS - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS Curl Testing # curl -I -X GET a href= HTTP/1.1 200 Accepted Server: nginx/1.1.19 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 23:00:54 GMT Content-Type: application/json; charset=ISO-8859... more>>
- Sep 15, 2015 - #nginx #programming #web #security

JR: Tt post about article design - mon, sep 8 and tue, sep 9, 2015 - I'd pay nice money for a Blade subscription if the article pages looked something like this: - (blatant copyright violation. will remove later.) ... instead of this: ... and instead of this: I don't need a printed paper version. I don't n... more>> 3 min read
- Sep 09, 2015 - #media #reading #web #design #browser

JR: ContentEditable web browser editors - Not for me. I'll continue to use my "enhanced" JavaScript editor that I "created" in the summer of 2013. Around that time. I did not create it from scratch. I downloaded someone else's open source code and modified the code to work the way I wanted... more>> 1 min read
- Aug 12, 2015 - #browser #web #editor #javascript

JR: The bizarre march toward an HTTPS-only Web - Demented would apply too. Good post by Dave Winer: that referenced a Brent Simmons post: #web #browser #https #business #moronism
- Jun 15, 2015

JR: Small businesses that don't have their own websites - An Apr 21, 2015 comment in a Toledo Talk thread about Theo's Cafe, located on Summit St in downtown Toledo. Foodie posted at 01:04:46 PM on Apr 21, 2015: Anyone know if their menu is available online anywhere? I called them and the person I spok... more>>
- Apr 21, 2015 - #business #web #hosting #cms #blogging

JR: Publishing to mobile app platforms instead of websites - Not in addition to, but solely within mobile apps that are maintained by other services. The average U.S. smartphone user now spends 88 percent of his or her time when using a mobile phone within an app and just 12 percent using the web browser. ... more>>
- Mar 26, 2015 - #mobile #web #app #media

JR: Will Twitter eliminate its 140-character post limit? - March 2015 Dave Winer has wanted to Twitter to remove the 140-character barrier for a long while now. I can't recall anyone else expressing this sentiment for so long. I simply have not noticed a lot of outrage about the 140-char limit over the past... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 16, 2015 - #programming #web #javascript #moronism #rss #indieweb #blogging