Let’s Change Things Up a Bit

While I really like the Daily Brief “format” I find myself longing for a more conversational tone here. I believe the key to making a longer format entry work, for me at least, will be constantly revising one post for the day. We’ll give it a shot here and I even enabled comments. gasp!

At lunch time I wondered how well Google’s iPad-customized UI for Gmail would run in a Fluid instance. The answer? Pretty well. I noticed the type was mostly set in Arial (gag) and there were a myriad of scrolling/sizing bugs that you’d never run into on an actual touchscreen device.

David Hemphill’s also ran into these problems and was nice enough to provide a userstyle and userscript to make Gmail’s iPad UI run well enough in Fluid. So far so good, though I seem to have lost Fluid’s ability to set an OS X Dock badge representing the number of unread emails (I believe it gathers this by parsing the element’s node text.</p> <hr /> <p>Would it suck to be replying to a blog entry where the content changed on you throughout the day? I’ll do my best to keep the editing to corrections and adding thoughts to the bottom of the entry. How’s that?</p> <hr /> <p><a href="http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/">Tweetie 2 (for the iPhone)</a> should have a method for entering a custom geotag instead of always defaulting to your current location. This tripped me up this afternoon when I wanted to geotag something after the fact because when I first though to tweet about it I was at a busy street intersection.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta"> This entry was posted in <a href="http://shawn.medero.net/category/notes/" title="View all posts in Notes" rel="category tag">Notes</a> and tagged <a href="http://shawn.medero.net/tag/geolocation/" rel="tag">geolocation</a>, <a href="http://shawn.medero.net/tag/gmail/" rel="tag">gmail</a>, <a href="http://shawn.medero.net/tag/ipad/" rel="tag">ipad</a>, <a href="http://shawn.medero.net/tag/iphone/" rel="tag">iphone</a>, <a href="http://shawn.medero.net/tag/tweetie/" rel="tag">tweetie</a>. Bookmark the <a href="http://shawn.medero.net/2010/04/16/lets-change-things-up-a-bit/" title="Permalink to Let’s Change Things Up a Bit" rel="bookmark">permalink</a>. </footer> </article> <nav id="nav-below"> <h1 class="screen-reader-text">Post navigation</h1> <div class="nav-previous"><a href="http://shawn.medero.net/2010/04/02/daily-brief-april-2nd-2010-weekend-edition/" rel="prev"><span class="meta-nav">←</span> Daily Brief, April 2nd 2010, Weekend Edition</a></div> <div class="nav-next"><a href="http://shawn.medero.net/2010/04/19/climate-change/" rel="next">Climate Change <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></div> </nav> <div id="comments"> <p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="secondary" class="widget-area"> <ul class="xoxo"> </ul> </div> </div> <hr class="clear"> <footer id="colophon" class="prefix_2 grid_6 suffix_3"> <form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="http://shawn.medero.net" > <div> <label class="screen-reader-text" for="s">Search for:</label> <input type="search" value="" name="s" id="s" tabindex="1" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" tabindex="2" /> </div> </form> <p>©2010 Shawn Medero.</p> </footer> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> twttr.anywhere(function(twitter) { twitter('#content').linkifyUsers(); twitter('#content').hovercards(); twitter('.anywhere-follow-soypunk').followButton('soypunk') }); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-404975-6"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {} </script> </body> </html>