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    Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy

    The Post Where We Share Five Top Form Video Sharing Sites With You

    Xbox.com Redesign Puts More Emphasis On the Handsomer, Slimmer Virtual You

    RIP GeoCities, You Will Be Missed

    The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office

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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    11/18/09

    In reply to Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy
    Now, you say the scroll bars work, and that's true, but moving them doesn't do anything. I was hoping that each one would represent how far along that number is from changing (if it's 1:30:00, 1's scroll bar would be halfway down, but all the other numbers would be right at the beginning).

    Something else I like in this vein -- [the389.com] (though it only really works well in Chrome or Safari).
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    Image of iheartpie iheartpie
    11/18/09

    @Platypus Man: now THAT is cool!

    Question in regards to both sites; I'm assuming these are actually scroll bars and not just fancy scripting with some graphics? Cause that'd be easy to do ... actual scroll bars not so easy to do.

    Can't test with OS/browser either, cause the graphics could be dynamically set depending on these factors ... and most code and right-click functionality can be altered server side :( I need answers!
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    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    11/19/09

    @iheartpie: I use a custom XP skin (XPMC Compact) and the clock showed the correct scroll bars , so it's definitively using actual scrollbars and not just emulating them with graphics.
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    Image of Crimson33 Crimson33
    11/18/09

    In reply to Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy

    Too bad ME users might be using IE 6 or lower... And it might look like this.
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    11/18/09

    @Crimson33: Better than IE8, where it doesn't even appear...
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    Image of jakemg jakemg
    11/18/09

    In reply to Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy
    Sorry, but this didn't exactly give me a boner. :(
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    11/18/09

    @jakemg: I don't know what to do here, console you?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    11/18/09

    @John Herrman:

    ...are you saying you dont know how to give someone a boner?
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    06/18/09

    In reply to Xbox.com Redesign Puts More Emphasis On the Handsomer, Slimmer Virtual You
    It looks nice. I hate to say it, but MS is really kicking the 360 and its experience into high gear.
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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    06/18/09

    In reply to Xbox.com Redesign Puts More Emphasis On the Handsomer, Slimmer Virtual You
    I just got Live Gold for a BUCK! for a month. Man that was a nice suprise today. Time for some 1 vs. 100
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    04/24/09

    In reply to RIP GeoCities, You Will Be Missed
    Boo, hoo, hoo. One of my earliest websites... what will I do with it? I don't even own the car any more.
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    Image of Unknown2U Unknown2U
    04/23/09

    In reply to RIP GeoCities, You Will Be Missed
    I remember Angel Fire Pages too
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/23/09

    @Unknown2U: I had an Angelfire page. I still don't understand why they chose that name. I just remember that they gave you the most storage space at one point.
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    Image of StupidSimple StupidSimple
    04/23/09

    In reply to RIP GeoCities, You Will Be Missed
    I'm surprised they were still around. Horrible speeds at best.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/23/09

    @stupidsimple: I'm surprised that it took so long for MySpace to obliterate them. Most people like shiny, user-friendly services with pretty pictures, not the old school hosting that GeoCities had.


    That being said, it is sort of sad. My first programming experiences were in HTML on websites like GeoCities.

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    Image of livinzlife livinzlife
    04/23/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Myspace is shiny and user friendly? Myspace is awful.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/23/09

    @livinzlife: Actually, you're right. But compared to Geocities? In any case, Facebook seems to be picking up speed now...
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    Image of Mandatory_Field Mandatory_Field
    01/20/09

    In reply to The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office
    Gee, I went to Whitehouse.com and it didn't look like that at all!
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    Image of wasting_company_time wasting_company_time
    01/20/09

    @Mandatory_Field: didn't it used to be a porn site? it isn't anymore.
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    Image of Mandatory_Field Mandatory_Field
    01/20/09

    @wasting_company_time: Crap. They ruined my lame joke...
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    Image of Lt.DanIcecream Lt.DanIcecream
    01/20/09

    In reply to The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office
    It's unfair to compare the White House site today and back in 2001. How bout hiring some writers that know basic journalism Giz?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/20/09

    @Lt.DanIcecream: If you read the post, he's talking about how much has changed since 2001; not necessarily about the representation of the president.
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    Image of Maximillian Maximillian
    01/20/09

    In reply to The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office
    Ha, look at Gizmodo 2002:

    [tinyurl.com]
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/20/09

    @FlashSandbox: Where's the snark?
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    Image of dambo29: floating in space dambo29: floating in space
    01/20/09

    @FlashSandbox: hahaha is that for real? can't believe how horrible it looked!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/20/09

    @dambo29: Yeah, I think there's a logo with a hand holding a Newton.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/20/09

    In reply to The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office
    To be fair, when W. took office, there were more and better websites devoted to dancing hamsters.


    Sure, we have LOLcats but HamsterDance trumps ICHC in terms of timesuck.

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    Image of robot-shmobot robot-shmobot
    01/20/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Actually, to defend - good design didn't just pop up in the past 2 years.. I believe they had it back in 2000 haha.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/20/09

    @robot-shmobot: And HamsterDance was not good design


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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/20/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: To be fair, I think hamsterdance originally came out in 1998 which is a full three years before Bush took office. So, that probably is not a great point of reference.


    That said, I still love those dancing hamsters. Or whatever they are.

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    Image of gerrylum gerrylum
    01/20/09

    In reply to The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office
    Agreed. Flash is completely unnecessary 90% of the time.


    Also, for such a tech-forward President, why does he insist on pushing back the digital TV transition date??

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/20/09

    @gerrylum: See here.
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    ripfire was starred ripfire was unstarred
    Image of gerrylum gerrylum
    01/20/09

    @ripfire:


    That's bull. Consumers have had plenty of time to make preparations. No matter how far you push it back, there's going to be people who just don't get it. Might as well make the transition now and deal with the stragglers afterwards.

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/20/09

    @gerrylum: It may not be about the people. Read:


    AT&T, however, joined the Consumers Union and some Congressman supporting the delay, that would, completely coincidentally, keep Verizon from speeding past them with their LTE deployment.
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    Image of Adonis Harris Adonis Harris
    01/20/09

    In reply to The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office
    Sometimes plain text is better than all that fancy flash.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/20/09

    @Adonis Harris: I don't see flash on the website. It's all AJAX.
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    Image of CaliBoom CaliBoom
    01/20/09

    In reply to The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office
    "Comparing the two makes it perfectly clear just how much has changed since 2001, and what we hope will come tomorrow: Flash. . ."


    Wait - you HOPE for Flash? Are you on Cracque?

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/20/09

    @CaliBoom: Je voudrais acheter du cracque, s'il vous plait. Aussi, puis-je utiliser votre pipe pour preparer le cracque?


    Merci.

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    Image of klaybc klaybc
    01/20/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Ceci, ce n'est pas une pipe.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/20/09

    @klaybc: Quelle domage! Je suis triste. Je ne peux pas preparer mon cracque. C'est terrible parceque j'aime beaucoup le cracque.
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