Best Developer Manual Ever

Mr. Analog · January 08, 2009, 03:22:30 PM

This might be the best developer manual ever:
http://hackety.org/press/nks.html

Darren Dirt · January 08, 2009, 04:25:46 PM

the "Shoes" language seems like a perfect, relaxed choice for the hipster-meets-hacker in your neighborhood!

http://shoooes.net/tutorial/

Ah, makes sense -- it's Ruby, improved*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_%28GUI_toolkit%29

*created by the Ruby guru-of-gurus

Thorin · January 08, 2009, 04:34:42 PM

Took me a bit to realize that was a representation of an open book that you could flip through by clicking the pages...

Mr. Analog · January 08, 2009, 05:08:20 PM

It's different all right

Took me a few seconds to clue in, the word "Book" helped and of course seeing the pointer change.

Darren Dirt · January 08, 2009, 05:19:32 PM

Quote from: Thorin on January 08, 2009, 04:34:42 PM
Took me a bit to realize that was a representation of an open book that you could flip through by clicking the pages...

the page-link works in FF, but not in IE (yay!)

Mr. Analog · January 09, 2009, 09:18:28 AM

Quote from: Darren Dirt on January 08, 2009, 05:19:32 PM
Quote from: Thorin on January 08, 2009, 04:34:42 PM
Took me a bit to realize that was a representation of an open book that you could flip through by clicking the pages...

the page-link works in FF, but not in IE (yay!)

A bit OT but that reminds me of a great graph of IE6s usage dropping of (YAY) http://ajaxian.com/archives/i-wont-support-ie-6-in-2009

Like the IKEA commercials, you should use IE7 it's much better*

*If you have to use it

Thorin · January 09, 2009, 10:50:29 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 09, 2009, 09:18:28 AM
A bit OT but that reminds me of a great graph of IE6s usage dropping of (YAY) http://ajaxian.com/archives/i-wont-support-ie-6-in-2009

Like the IKEA commercials, you should use IE7 it's much better*

*If you have to use it

Yeah, we're getting off-topic. Since we're going that way, here's another post about web companies trying to convince people to move away from IE6/7 to faster-rendering/faster-javascript-processing browsers: http://ra-ajax.org/google-follows-our-tell-ie-users-the-truth-path.blog

Mr. Analog · January 09, 2009, 10:54:28 AM

Quote from: Thorin on January 09, 2009, 10:50:29 AM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 09, 2009, 09:18:28 AM
A bit OT but that reminds me of a great graph of IE6s usage dropping of (YAY) http://ajaxian.com/archives/i-wont-support-ie-6-in-2009

Like the IKEA commercials, you should use IE7 it's much better*

*If you have to use it

Yeah, we're getting off-topic. Since we're going that way, here's another post about web companies trying to convince people to move away from IE6/7 to faster-rendering/faster-javascript-processing browsers: http://ra-ajax.org/google-follows-our-tell-ie-users-the-truth-path.blog

Heh, that's a great way of putting it...

Darren Dirt · January 09, 2009, 01:45:57 PM

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Let me get this one out of the picture immediately;
Ra-Ajax works with IE!

Sure IE has more then its shares of "issues". But in general Ra-Ajax works on IE as much as it is possible to get an Ajax Library to work on IE. Even on IE6...

The only reason why we've done this is because we wanted users to stop using IE since it's an inferior browser. Nothing more, nothing less.

Today I discovered something really beautiful though, because today I discovered that Google is doing the same thing...!

And NOT on some "narrow website", but actually their *prime* tool; GMail...!

GMail warns IE users that IE is broken

I find this hysterically funny and I think a lot of other website should follow the lead from Ra-Ajax, GMail and so on...

Imagine how many people would switch if FaceBook or something did this ...

^ full of awesome.