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Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka » Blog Archive » cd-roms and ipads
We’re not in the age of CD-ROMs now. Our price-points are all over the shop, and a sealed environment like the iPad permits all kinds of unnatural pricing inversions. We’ll pay more for a ringtone than a full MP3. We pay $10 for a README file on o...
How to fix: iPad does not trigger click event on some elements
iPads will not trigger click events for all elements. You can fix that, but you don't want to know why.
Example: Capturing clicks on table rows (use case would be clicking the 1st link inside it for better UI). Consider this setup:
<table>
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Derek Powazek - Thoughts on Designing for iPad
Apple’s App Store was a constant source of stress in the development process. Every time another story of Apple randomly booting an app from the store came out, the whole team quaked. The idea that we could do all this work and then Apple could de...
Obama: iPad, Xbox Turn Information Into A 'Distraction'
"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank that high on the truth meter," he told the students.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The iPad Luddites
In the end, progress doesn't care about ideology. Those who think of themselves as great fans of progress, of technology's inexorable march forward, will change their tune as soon as progress destroys something they care deeply about.
Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and the long road to the iPad. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
Now in 2010, the iPad takes the same ideas to their logical extreme. It is a beautiful and nearly perfect machine. It is also Jobs' final triumph, the final step in Apple's evolution away from Wozniak and toward a closed model.
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) - Boing Boing
The way you improve your iPad isn't to figure out how it works and making it better. The way you improve the iPad is to buy iApps. Buying an iPad for your kids isn't a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart an...
Large forms are slow on the iPad
- Forms with many inputs (600+ in my case) become extremely unresponsive on an iPad, up to the point where it can take several seconds for a control to respond to touch commands.
- This is true for both iPad 1 and iPad 2 models.
- While [certain...
When the iPad won't play an MP4 video
I had trouble serving an MP4 video to my iPad. Although the video complied with all the specs (H.264 codec, up to 1080p, 30 FPS) I always got this error:
This video could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the...