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Comment on Creativity by Ideas of March 2012 | Paul Randall

Ideas of March 2012 | Paul Randall — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:50:32 +0000

[...] been an advert for myself. If there is one thing I have learnt from my website it is that the most lovingly crafted posts fall by the wayside in favour of posts that were created on a whim, but I don’t write for [...]

Comment on Using SVG Icons by Paul

Paul — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:41:05 +0000

Thanks for the comment David. I found it to be an exciting technology to look into (6 years on) and look forward to the results people find when they experiment with it.

Comment on Using SVG Icons by David Bushell

David Bushell — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:32:02 +0000

Great work Paul, awesome to see you coded ‘em by hand!

I just posted a little follow-up to my Smashing Mag article on my blog to introduce a few issues/bugs in certain browsers: http://dbushell.com/2012/03/11/svg-all-fun-and-games/

I tend to export from Adobe Illustrator as a starting point but I have a feeling it likes to generate excess data. I wonder how many bytes could be saved through automated or manual optimisation? Either way, understanding the actual XML inside goes a long to appreciating the potential of SVG. Look forward to seeing more!

Comment on Six High Resolution Cloud Images by Kaleponi

Kaleponi — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:57:19 +0000

Thanks very much!

Comment on Make the most out of the pages QR codes link to by Marc Jenkins

Marc Jenkins — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:49:13 +0000

I agree that it’s safe to assume the user is on a mobile device. I’ve seen some QR codes point to home pages which is no good, it should point to a specific page related to the content of the advert.

We’ve used QR codes before. We always put it through a click tracker so we can see exactly how many people have scanned the QR code. I still think it’s a bit of gimmick – until (if) a QR reader is built into mobile OS’s I can’t see it making a difference.

Comment on QR codes will be looked back on in history as a gimmick no more impactful than scratch and sniff. by Make the most out of the pages QR codes link to | Paul Randall

Make the most out of the pages QR codes link to | Paul Randall — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:09:58 +0000

[...] I have spoken before about QR codes, and their place in the world currently; but I do use them myself — mainly as a curiosity as to [...]

Comment on Getting into Reading Mode by Paul

Paul — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:51:20 +0000

Hi James, thanks for commenting.

The ‘moving your finger along the words’ thing is exactly what I was after. I found myself reading long blog posts highlighting each paragraph, as a way of focusing where I was.

My original prototype actually calculated the middle of the page, and highlighted the paragraph automatically, but I wanted to simplify the concept for the purpose of highlighting the concept, not the technology.

Comment on Getting into Reading Mode by James

James — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:32:35 +0000

Interesting idea although I noticed quite quickly that to me it feels a little forced. I’ve not used iAWriter (although I know about it) but I get the gist of it.

However, it felt very much like the digital equivalent of reading by moving my finger along a line as you used to do in school when learning. Don’t know if I’d be the lone oddball who felt like that though!

I also noticed that if you don’t move your mouse and you scroll (even if it’s over text) the next para doesn’t highlight. (Win7/Chrome) Might just be the hit target needs a little fine tuning.

Neat experiment though

Comment on The Kitchen Sink of HTML by Kenny

Kenny — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:27:47 +0000

Awesome, when i get a solid version i will send it over to you! Thanks alot!

Comment on The Kitchen Sink of HTML by Paul

Paul — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:25:05 +0000

I haven’t updated it, but I have modified it internally at the company where I work, but you are more than welcome to adapt the code. I’d be happy to link to it as well.