Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • Room for improvement

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    Ben
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    As any commercial software developer will tell you, releases revolve around features, bug fixes, and need for income. The company needs to balance new features (which will make the product sell better to a larger audience), fixing bugs (which helps keep the existing user base happy) and the need for income (the company/developers need to…

  • IE 9: The web advances again

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    Ben
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    Internet Explorer 9 is coming. Faster JavaScript engine, some more CSS support, including CSS 3’s rounded corners, SVG support, and some nice font rendering goodness. Add in some HTML 5 goodness. An aside — despite the over-the-top anger vented against Flash in 2010, I still feel Flash has legs and a future, but that’s a…

  • Thoughts on the iPad

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    Ben
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    So here’s my thoughts on Apple’s new iPad. The name is not that great, Slate or Tablet would have been better although one could argue that these are too generic. Sorry to see no camera, and I think another USB port would have added to its functionality (more devices it could hook up to). And…