JR: Mozilla Firefox browser is losing users and who cares? - Mar 8, 2015 - Why I wont mourn Mozilla by Eric Raymond I agree with that post. I use Firefox with JavaScript disabled as my default browser on my old laptop. I use the NoScripts plugin to control JavaScript. This makes web sites load faster. For... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 13, 2015 - #web #technology #politics #moronism

JR: Web-based publishing platforms that I've created - (unnamed code base) - ToledoTalk.com version 1 - Jan 2003 to Aug 2007 Basic message board that listed posts by the order the posts were created, youngest to oldest, like a blog. Copied looked and features from MetaFilter.com Parula - ToledoTalk.com... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2015 - #web #programming #blogging #api #forums

JR: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing header - for client-side javascripts that get downloaded from server that want to access an API on another server. #api - #web - #programming - #javascript
- Jan 09, 2015

JR: Snarky, tear-down content - It's a common writing style because it's easy to do, and many people enjoy it because it makes them feel good when they read about others getting verbally torn down. Humans have a desire to see successful people and projects fail. For some years, ... more>> 1 min read
- Dec 17, 2014 - #web #media #writing #business #blogging #design

JR: Yo app - #yo #web #mobile #app https://github.com/YoApp https://twitter.com/YoApp https://medium.com/@YoAppStatus/e7f2f0ec5c3c https://medium.com/@YoAppStatus/add-real-time-yo-notifications-with-these-4-easy-steps-screenshots-9704ed19b0a6 ... more>> 1 min read
- Nov 24, 2014 - #yo #web #mobile #app #todo

JR: Native apps vs open web - nov 2014 - https://medium.com/five-hundred-words/the-web-still-dying-after-all-these-years-66cc2c9db8c9 #web - #mobile - #app
- Nov 18, 2014

JR: Mobile web predictions from November 2005 - (My Nov 13, 2005 ToledoTalk.com thread titled Japanese mobility that excerpted from this Nov 10, 2005 post titled How far ahead is Japanese Mobility? My comments below are from that Nov 2005 thread.) Some thoughts on the subject of mobile web use ... more>> 4 min read
- Nov 05, 2014 - #mobile #web #history #blog_jr

JR: Geek Browser War - Firefox vs Chrome - August 2014 - I've used Chrome as my main browser for years. I switched to Opera for a while in January 2014 because it seemed that a new version of Chrome chewed up more CPU. But Chrome does a lot of little things well that I missed in Opera, so I switched back... more>> 2 min read
- Aug 16, 2014 - #web #browser #opensource #business

JR: Web app info on iPhone - meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" / add the app to the home screen. the above removes the default top and bottom nav bars in the safari browser. this would work for my ToledoWX jQuery mobile web app, since it contains its own b... more>>
- Aug 04, 2014 - #mobile #web #app #design #todo

JR: Facebook's internet.org project - August 2014 - #web
- Aug 03, 2014

JR: Digital media and web services unbundling their products - A trend has emerged in the past year where some publishers and web services have separated their products into smaller offerings or verticals. ".. the digital unbundling is an extension of the decline of general interest content in print form lik... more>> 1 min read
- Jun 04, 2014 - #media #design #app #mobile #web #blog_jr

JR: The web as a platform - Lengthy but interesting post ... ... written by Michael Bleigh, the CEO/Cofounder of static web hosting platform-as-a-service Divshot. "The web as a platform is easier to learn and lets developers do more faster than any other platform" Some exce... more>> 4 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #web #programming #html #javascript #mobile #quote #framework #blog_jr

JR: Thoughts about web trolls - Spring 2013 - (I made this post at ToledoTalk.com in March 2013, and it appears that I my writing contained some old-fashioned spunkiness.) Another user wrote: "At least a troll will usually state their true feelings and not give you some text book politically c... more>> 3 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #comments #forums #blogging #web #blog_jr

JR: LA Times new website design - May 2014 - Beyond responsive: three mobile website design tricks becoming trends Trendy but not always favorable in my book. infinite scrolling - (meh, whatever) cards - (I like this) pre-written Tweets (??) Increasingly, I view websites with JavaScript d... more>> 2 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #media #responsive #design #mobile #web #blog_jr

JR: Decline of the Mobile Web - April 2014 - Some current and older stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7548530 I know it's not declining for me. I build my own web-based tools that function well on mobile devices: flip phone with Opera Mini browser iPhone Samsung S4 HP ta... more>>
- Apr 10, 2014 - #mobile #web #app #design #blog_jr