alexmuller

I'd argue that best practice in web development is not requiring JavaScript to load a page, but I'm sure that issue has been done to death in the past.

I guess it's about expectations. As a web app, people might expect a slight delay when tapping. But a native app should be responding instantly to taps (like the rest of iOS does), and this doesn't cut it.

I can't agree with this strongly enough. Why doesn't Spotify have any kind of recommendations? I'd also love to see iTunes Genius implemented in Spotify, but instead of just using my library for similar songs (like iTunes does) they could pull from the whole catalog.

> We’re building a social atlas for the world. And we need your help to do it.

This makes me think of Dopplr. As somebody who was using Gowalla purely for the check-in-to-see-where-I've-been aspect, I think I'm going to end up a Foursquare user before long. I guess you have to do what you have to do in order to stay alive and hopefully end up profitable.

There's a lot of information made available at http://stats.wikimedia.org/

Trouble is, anyone can spec a machine so that their manufacturer of choice comes out smelling of roses.

For example, I'm looking at the Lenovo site now: X220, i5 2.5GHz, 12.5", 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD = £1330

(including a £175 September discount)

And Apple: MacBook Air, i5 1.7GHz, 13", 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD = £1100

This is my favourite: http://stats.grok.se/en/201107/Rupert_Murdoch (it's amazing to think how influential Wikipedia could be at times like that)

Not exactly a list, but: http://plaintextoffenders.com/

I emailed them about this a few months ago after being spurred on by the creation of plaintextoffenders.com:

> I received this email when I registered with you last year, and was prompted by the recent creation of the site 'Plain Text Offenders' to send it to them. Somebody else has submitted their registration email too:

The reply was as follows:

> We realized that this area was of great concern to many customers and we have since removed password submission in our 'Welcome' email.

So to give their customers peace of mind, they made it less obvious that what they're doing is stupid.

They do publish at least basic pageview data (which is how http://stats.grok.se/ works). But absolutely, they should make detailed metrics much more visible, which would help.

Does this mean analytics providers are scrambling to implement this API before the Chrome build goes stable?

Very true! I'd probably make them flush with the right edge and slightly wider, based on that.

I was reading it thinking the same thing, but the scrollbars on http://maxvoltar.com/ actually look and work nicely.

> if you give away your work for free, all of the cheapskates and losers come out and start insulting the service

This is exactly what Spotify experienced when they announced they were going from free -> not so free.

http://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2011/04/14/upcoming-...

True, though I bet 90% of users don't even realise there's been an "uproar" over Dropbox's security.