From the updated iTunes Terms & Conditions:
We may ask for your permission to provide the name, email address and postcode listed in your Account to the Publisher so that the Publisher can send you marketing messages about its own products in accordance with its privacy policy.
Previously iTunes / App Store purchases had no access to your personal data, so this kinda sucks.
There are several noteworthy changes:
- The sizes of all the fonts and buttons were increased
- The “selected” item or item with the mouse over it is clearly highlighted
- The user can navigate intuitively around the page using D-pad up/down/left/right motions
- Additional padding has been added between all elements on the page
- Darker or slightly muted colors have been chosen to suit TVs that are generally tuned to be brighter
More on Google’s Designing / tweaking your website for TV guide.
Youtube on Macbook on the Big Screen
Inspiring 30 minute short film about IBM. Worth watching.
Great question and responses on Quora about why Dropbox succeeded where so many failed.
In summary:
From the beginning Dropbox focused on the user experience. They made the entire process easier, simpler, and more understandable than its competitors. Add in a free starter account and great multi-platform support and you have a big explanation for why it’s more popular.
If you’ve not got Dropbox, get it now!
This excites me, some proposals for CSSOM (better CSS value access from the DOM), variables, modules and nesting. This means you’ll be able to do stuff like this:
@var header-color color #006;
@var main-color color #06c;
@var secondary-color color #c06;
a { color: var(main-color); }
a:visited { color: var(secondary-color); }
h1 {
color: var(header-color);
background: linear-gradient(left,var(main-color), transparent 25%);
}
See the full presentation here: http://www.xanthir.com/talks/2011-01-12/slides.html
Tip: use the arrow keys to navigate..
via Tab Atkins Jr. member of the CSS3 working group.