samuelgoto/sms-receiver: phone number verification
An interesting proposal to allow websites to detect certain SMS messages. The UX implications are fascinating.
#ui
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I was reading a post by Greg McVerry when I happened upon the credit for his featured photo. At first I had thought it was a stock photo, and when I realized it was from a IndieWebCamp, I looked closer and noticed that Aaron Parecki’s website was featured on the photo in the cell phone. I looked a bit closer and thought “someone has doctored his avatar as it’s tilted in the photo.” Then, knowing Aaron, I thought I had better check on my cell phone.
It turns out if you visit his site on a cell phone, his avatar rotates with the phone!
The whimsy of this just brightens my day.
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add support for mp-destination
- query the micropub endpoint and store the
destinationlist in the session - if there are destinations, include an account switcher bar at the bottom of the timeline view
- recognize the default destination for each channel
- when making any micropub request from the timeline, include the
mp-destinationof the selected account
- query the micropub endpoint and store the
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add video player to stream view
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improve multi-photo layout in stream view
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The technology behind preview photos (code.facebook.com)
To address these issues, we asked ourselves if we could create a visual impression of the image using only 200 bytes. Why 200 bytes? In order to remove that second network request, we needed to include some facsimile of the image itself in the initial network request.
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Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface (blog.codinghorror.com)
one of the great strengths of web applications is that they aren't bound by the crusty old conventions of desktop applications. They're free to do things differently -- and hopefully better. Web applications should play to their strengths, instead of attempting to clone desktop applications.
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Who Killed the Desktop Application? (blog.codinghorror.com)
All the innovation in user interface seems to be taking place on the web, and desktop applications just aren't keeping up.
