Disqus - Latest Comments for mjc

Re: Can Flash be saved?

mjc — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:36:10 -0000

Your ( http://www.thefwa.com ) example is

#1 confusing - click on an icon, and a tiny little box pops up on the right hand side that is easily drowned out by the rest of the content...? among other things

#2 difficult to read on high resolution displays, both due to the size of the font and the font chosen. I can't increase the font size...

#3 completely useless in a screen reader (JAWS, and voiceover, to start)

#4 I clicked on 5 random sites on this "favourite web awards" and they all suffer from similar issues.

I don't mind if someone does this on their own, but really, touting it as "well designed"?

They don't even have alternative content, or even Flash's own crappy accessibility support, if you feel like pulling the "flash can be accessible" card.

Re: Dear Disqus: Can I have the old interface back? (Scripting News)

mjc — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:13:16 -0000

Jeroen, regarding performance, anything looks OK when your site takes many seconds to load... (

http://webpagetest.org/resu... (UK testsite)

http://webpagetest.org/resu... (US testsite)

vs. Dave's: http://webpagetest.org/resu...

I'd suggest having a peek at http://code.google.com/spee...

Also, you can see the problem Dave is talking about performance-wise in the "Repeat View".

EDIT: speaking of issues, Disqus lost track of who I was replying to after I logged in.

Re: Hey Mike, I told you so (Scripting News)

mjc — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:02:39 -0000

RE: Jailbreak.

I helped develop iPHUC, but I still think you're wrong on this one. on the mac you can download any .app from the internet (zipped, but auto unzip when it's finished) and double click it - functionality built in to the OS. jailbreaking is significantly more difficult and requires third party tools, plus it has to be re-done every update.

Face it, modifying the firmware is a hack. We should not *need* to jailbreak just to use apps that push the system beyond where apple is comfortable taking it.

Re: Twitter killing developers not so softly

mjc — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:35:18 -0000

sentiments, not sediments. :P

Re: My GeekTool Setup

mjc — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:00:02 -0000

Awesome ideas. unfortunately your smartquotes ruin a lot of the scripts and I had to do some regexps with textmate to clean them up. your blog shouldn't be transcribing quotes inside of a CODE tag into smart quotes. might want to investigate!

Re: File Archiver: 7-Zip - Compact your crap!

mjc — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:50:28 -0000

7-zip's native file format is superior to .rar in SUBSTANTIAL amounts.

Re: XMPP PubSub aka “death by a thousand cuts”

mjc — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:44:21 -0000

totally awesome.

Re: XMPP PubSub aka “death by a thousand cuts”

mjc — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:31:51 -0000

this is totally awesome.

Re: A page full of thank yous for some great people | Broadcasting Brain

mjc — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:40:32 -0000

Cheers! :)

Re: #LazyTweet: How can I get Leopard to automount my AirDisk? Manually mounting it every time I connect is a pain.

mjc — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:52:06 -0000

windows or osx?

Re: Wow › ChaCha Fance

mjc — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:14:46 -0000

grats :)

Re: Is This Stupid?: I Have the World's Stupidest Genetic Condition, Odds Are You Do Too

mjc — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:16:31 -0000

Yeah, how do I convince my anxiety-ruled borderline munchausen mom that it's not allergies :p

Re: Is This Stupid?: I Have the World's Stupidest Genetic Condition, Odds Are You Do Too

mjc — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:13:59 -0000

Thanks so much! Apparently I have KP also.

Re: How One Would-be Web Friend Turned Into a Stalker In Months

mjc — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:41:26 -0000

I thought GC wasn't handing out invites anymore :(

Re: How One Would-be Web Friend Turned Into a Stalker In Months

mjc — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:41:24 -0000

I thought GC wasn't handing out invites anymore :(

Re: Edythe

mjc — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:27:19 -0000

hahahahahahaha.

Re: Edythe

mjc — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:18:21 -0000

wtf?