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There is no job that plugins are the right tool for. Saying that plugins ‘have their place’ is ignorant and complacent.
Adrianne Jeffries, writing for ReadWriteWeb:
Vimeo is releasing a ‘universal player’ today that allows user to watch embedded Vimeo videos on mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad using the video playback capability built into the new HTML5 standard.
Awesome!
Also announced is an Instapaper-style feature:
Vimeo also announced a ‘watch later’ button today that will cue videos up in a playlist for users to catch up on when they get home from work.
Excellent! I have a “To Watch” playlist on YouTube for this same purpose, but a quick button click is much easier.
The government respond to the petition about upgrading to IE6. Oh dear, what a fail indeed.
They will need to update in 2014 when IE6 reaches ‘end of life’ anyway but their slowness at this is a big disappointment and holds back the web.
Trust the government to give a job like this to BT, and give them a blank cheque to do what they want with it.
In our company, if we produced a website like Business Link - and all of us worked full time on the project, even hiring some extra staff to work on research, and content provision, not only would we make a much more attractive and easy to use site than the current Business Link website, but it would cost a fraction of the price. Literally. Like less than 0.1%.
The Government should give their contracts to small businesses and get real value for money.
We are always getting asked by clients “How can we prevent people stealing our images?”.
There really is no way to do it unless you watermark your images. All other ways can quite easily be avoided.
A client sent this site as an example; the site has disabled right-click. I recorded this quick video showing how I can simply drag-and-drop the image to steal it.
Am I the only person who uses this text instead of the Lorem Ipsum generator because it skips an extra click? :)
Oh and I just realised that I could use the link above to skip straight to it… hmm nevermind! :)
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