March 2010
8 posts
SoundManager2 HTML 5 Audio Support →
Now it’s as easy to turn on HTML5 Audio in your app by adding “soundManager.enableHtml5Audio = true;” in your bootstrap. Tested and working on Safari and Chrome. Next up: flashless-able and getting the footprint down to 15K compressed (currently ~38k)
allow flash to be completely optional if html5 enabled
removing all the Flash 8 conditionals (sorry, you’ve had 3 years...
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HTML5 Audio Playback Testing For @jQuery.support
HTML5 Audio Playback Testing For jQuery.support
5 Ways Netflix Could Have Avoided an Ugly User... →
Never understand why people don’t just post their sketches and notes. 80% of user-pissed-off-ness can be eliminated simply by telling them why you made a change. For example, designing the guardian iphone app.
Collaboration and the creation of the Xbox 360 →
Death by Analysis
Lessons Learned:
Too often competitive analysis drives product requirements in startups.
This can lead engineering to build the maximum feature set rather than minimum feature set.
You need to get outside the building and figure out what features matter to most customers.
No feature lists without facts.
— from Death by Analysis by Steve Blank
Would add to this in that it’s about...
Clients From Hell: Blue skies thinking →
Client: “I love what you have come up with here, but I feel what we need here is some blue skies thinking.”
Me: “(pause for effect) Can you explain what you mean?”
Client: “You know, think outside of the box, push the envelope. I just don’t think we are both singing from the same hymn sheet…