Exclusive use of jQuery, not using browser drag and drop (manually edits element position), using JS to animate and fade/transition instead of CSS, etc.
Is localStorage the only modern/HTML5 concept being used?
I was thinking about why Wingdings, a popular phenomenon in Word docs, didn’t translate into the web, chat, and mobile SMS until the iPhone let us add the Japanese emoji keyboard.
The technical difference that I can see is that Wingdings is mapped to English letters (I.E. the same code points), whereas emoji are mapped to their own code points. So while Wingdings are typed using the standard keyboard, emoji (still today) requires a dedicated program/menu/keyboard to select them.
Additionally, font is often ignored/lost in transmission, in things like email, web text boxes, SMS. So what made emoji just work is that it used unique code points, not reusing other characters’ code points.
I think he wants to spread awareness that people in power can use technology and medicine to widen the class divide, and biotechnology shows signs of going that direction.
I think that a biohackers’ line of reasoning goes: the same way that some pills once existed as ground-up herbs, today’s biotech (and vaccines) started as ground-up biomaterial.
Of course people have been hurt from eating herbs and injecting biomaterial, so testing and quality control will always be a massive issue.
I still see a biohackers’ rebuttal, however: sometimes people are hurt by their own cooking, or restaurant food, so the issue of quality control among mass-distributed biomaterial is not totally new, and not insurmountable.
> Actually, generating power with their muscles provides a valuable lesson for kids, whether or not the power goes out.
The article ends on this point about parenting philosophy, but I think the author does not set up or discuss it enough.
What I don’t exactly understand is the underlying suggestion to manufacture this project as a “hard lesson” for the children.
I believe it is widely understood that children learn very much by emulating their parents. So what the parent regards as important, their children will see, and internalize those behaviors.
When I see parents worry about children taking something for granted, it can look like parents feel regret about parts of them that they see mirrored in their children.
I'm thinking that arbitrary domains should not have access to any resource on '127.0.0.1', for the same reason that browsers restrict access to resources at 'file://' without user permission.
What is the backstory behind why the company stopped selling this software? Has anyone asked the author or company about it? Would it be worth asking them to release the source since it's been so long since selling it?
Exclusive use of jQuery, not using browser drag and drop (manually edits element position), using JS to animate and fade/transition instead of CSS, etc.
Is localStorage the only modern/HTML5 concept being used?