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Touch Wiki
Javascript libraries for dealing with touch events, multitouch, normalizing across the Webkit/IE touch models, and all that jazz.
javascript  touch  github  web  via:monospaced 
9 weeks ago by ohskylab
The Mechanic Muse — From Scroll to Screen - NYTimes.com
This is great. "So far the great e-book debate has barely touched on the most important feature that the codex introduced: the nonlinear reading that so impressed St. Augustine. If the fable of the scroll and codex has a moral, this is it. We usually associate digital technology with nonlinearity, the forking paths that Web surfers beat through the Internet’s underbrush as they click from link to link. But e-books and nonlinearity don’t turn out to be very compatible. Trying to jump from place to place in a long document like a novel is painfully awkward on an e-reader, like trying to play the piano with numb fingers. You either creep through the book incrementally, page by page, or leap wildly from point to point and search term to search term. It’s no wonder that the rise of e-reading has revived two words for classical-era reading technologies: scroll and tablet. That’s the kind of reading you do in an e-book."
via:monospaced  reading  books  kindle  from instapaper
september 2011 by ohskylab
Whoops and hashbangs « James Pearce
Interesting. Not so much for the hash-bangs, but more for the bit that goes: "This is the crux. We might all be using web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS and the like), but in radically different architectural configurations, and best practices for some may not be good rules for others. What this touches on might be the primary root cause of the hashbang debate (if not also others): the web is being used in challenging and unexpected ways and we’re finding it hard to re-examine practices and principles that were intended for a different age."
web  urls  hash-bangs  via:monospaced  from delicious
june 2011 by ohskylab
Dave Martorana | MultiFirefox 2.2
"A small launcher utility that allows you to run multiple versions of Firefox side-by-side. It helps you set up multiple profiles (one or more for each version of Firefox), remembers your last launch preferences for easy launching, has auto-updating built in for when we make improvements, and is 100% open source, MIT licensed."
via:monospaced  firefox  tools  osx  development  testing  from delicious
april 2011 by ohskylab

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