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"The calligraphy pen gets thicker that faster you go, while the pen gets thicker." Typo?
Commented Apr 5, 2012 on From MacPaint to FiftyThree's Paper: Someday all our apps will be this great at flow|state
From MacPaint to FiftyThree's Paper: Someday all our apps will be this great
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re living way back in the early 1980s, maybe 1984. You have access to a computer, and on that computer, you use a top-end DOS app like Lotus 1-2-3: Then, one day, you see a marketing campaign for a new computer. Your eye catches on this image: Your min...
A couple of things I don't love about the QuickUI implementation. First, when I start typing the first line, the box changes in height a pixel or two. This is on Chrome on Linux. Second, I'm used to an extra line being added on carriage-return, not on first character on the new line. That feels inconsistent between the first line and subsequent lines.
Commented Oct 17, 2011 on Control of the Week: Facebook-style AutoSizeTextBox at flow|state
Control of the Week: Facebook-style AutoSizeTextBox
It’s nice to have multi-line text boxes resize to fit their contents. The native HTML <textarea> tag, which creates a multi-line text box, gives the text box a fixed height. (Chrome and Firefox will let you manually resize a textarea, which helps, but the resizing isn’t done for you.) A fixed he...
Wow. Your post four years ago got lots of negative comments.
Can you post a before/after of your font change?
Commented Aug 16, 2010 on Lessons learned switching our web UI from stock fonts to a proprietary font at flow|state
Lessons learned switching our web UI from stock fonts to a proprietary font
Four years ago I wrote about how impoverished most UIs were when it came to rendering live text in fonts other than the small set of stock fonts generally available on all operating systems. This situation has thankfully changed in the interim, tipping to the point where Cozi was able to incorpo...
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