To be fair the current president is usually not news because they’re not doing anything out of the ordinary (ordinarily)
Trump makes himself newsworthy by being a bottomless pit of disorder. No disagreement that the news is in it for the ratings/eyeballs etc, but how is it the news’s fault that trump is good for ratings?
Who said anything about fault? But now that you mention it, news media did provide crucial care and feeding for his campaign in the first place, perhaps thinking it was all a joke, but in any case correctly guessing it would be good for ratings.
> To be fair the current president is usually not news because they’re not doing anything out of the ordinary (ordinarily)
I do find it interesting that most news sites seem to have agreed that his stumbling, bumbling way of often losing his train of thought is rarely worth a mention.
http://slashdot.org/palm was available at least from 2000 [1] to 2016 [2]. (Perhaps a year or two longer, but the Internet Archive's crawler got banned in February 2016. The current error page was first archived in October 2018.)
It’s great that it’s lightweight, but the information on my already-small iPhone 12 mini takes up a small fraction of my screen and is illegible without zooming in. Fixing this would take just a few more lines of CSS.
Edit: or maybe just a single line of HTML to set the viewport meta tag.
Mobile browsers have, since at least the first iPhone, defaulted to showing websites zoomed way out, on the theory that the site might not have been designed for a screen that narrow. Sites that are designed to support a phone screen are supposed to say so, using the meta tag given elsewhere in the thread.
I recently spent 6 months in west seattle and got a chance to take the ferries. Great fun. Protip: book your tickets in advance.
One time on the way back, we got prioritized behind all the people with tickets and boat after boat... 4-5 hours later. Luckily I have a campervan, so it wasn't a huge deal to wait in line, but I definitely learned a big lesson!
Just to add: reservations are only available on a couple routes (Coupeville and the San Juan Islands), and only during summer tourist season. Most routes are fcfs.
You could deliver that in a more traditional UX, but that typically means you need to deal with calendar controls etc. For mobile users, maybe they should add those same quick links to the standard site and see how users react - I bet they'd be well received.
Why, when there is only one possible answer to the next question, does it still insist on asking that question? Pick your departing port as Bainbridge Island and see what I mean.
Consistency, makes it easier to understand. When it would automatically pick the only possible answer, you might think that you accidentally clicked on the next link already or that something else happened incorrectly. You would have to add a message stating that the system auto-selected the only possible destination.
It’s also (slightly) easier to implement.
Both not hugely problematic, but in my opinion its the correct decision for this case.
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TBH I miss the old-school unstyled text.
But a very no-nonsense site that doesn't get in your way, I'm a fan.
(and is also looking for volunteer developers and localizers.)
For example, https://lite.cnn.com
Trump makes himself newsworthy by being a bottomless pit of disorder. No disagreement that the news is in it for the ratings/eyeballs etc, but how is it the news’s fault that trump is good for ratings?
I do find it interesting that most news sites seem to have agreed that his stumbling, bumbling way of often losing his train of thought is rarely worth a mention.
https://html.duckduckgo.com/
https://lite.duckduckgo.com/
https://mbasic.facebook.com/
I did downvote though as you requested.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20001012050323/http://slashdot.o...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160128183858/http://slashdot.o...
Edit: or maybe just a single line of HTML to set the viewport meta tag.
https://i.imgur.com/T5ntV2A.png
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
One time on the way back, we got prioritized behind all the people with tickets and boat after boat... 4-5 hours later. Luckily I have a campervan, so it wasn't a huge deal to wait in line, but I definitely learned a big lesson!
https://www.ferry.fyi/mukilteo
Quote from the author here: https://www.southwhidbeyrecord.com/life/coders-create-altern...
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