Posts tagged Technology
Posts tagged Technology
“Have you actually read the specs?”
“Well, no, but that’s not the point!”
Actually, it is. A weekend’s worth of reading cures a lifetime of misconceptions:
First, enabled menu bar mode if you haven’t already (M-x menu-bar-open). Under Options, select Set default font… and choose your font face and size. Now, use M-x describe-font to see the font description string. Copy and paste this string into your .emacs configuration. Here’s mine:
(set-default-font "-apple-Menlo-medium-normal-normal-*-18-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-")
Sharpie has reinvented the pencil. This one uses a “liquid graphite” technology that erases like a normal graphite pencil, only it cures after three days – becoming permanent. I submit that website comments ought to follow a similar pattern, substituting minutes for hours.
No one wants to click a comment form Preview button. And if you let me choose between Submit and Preview, I’ll choose Submit everytime – only to notice my spelling error or blacklisted HTML tag after my comment’s been posted. Then, I’ll likely submit another comment right on its heels lamenting your shitty comment form’s lack of usability. It seems to me that inline previews with spell-checking and context-sensitive help are the way to go. Come to think of it, this might make a fun technology demo…
