Software Bugs A common misconception is that a software bug is called a bug because of an actual bug that was once found. The story goes that Grace Hopper found a moth stuck in Harvard University’s Mark II calculator in 1947 and that she taped it inside a logbook with the words “First actual case …
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Flexbugs – Flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them.
This repository is a community-curated list of flexbox issues and cross-browser workarounds for them. The goal is that if you’re building a website using flexbox and something isn’t working as you’d expect, you can find the solution here. Truth be told, most of the time “something is not as I’d expect” when using flexbox 😛 …
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Fitts’ Law vs. Apple on Windows, continued, again
Two years ago I wrote about Fitts’ Law vs. iTunes/Safari describing the lack of the upperleft and upperright pixels in the Windows distribution of Safari. The lack of those two pixels resulted in some really odd behavior (the upper right corner for example didn’t trigger the close button, as you clicked *through it*, hitting the …
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