Posts by Allen Cheung
The Value of Quora
A few days ago, I ran across this post commenting on the decline of Quora, at least in mindshare and media coverage. While this conclusion is dubious based on raw traffic numbers, my own anecdotal use has steadily declined since…
Readability, or the Lack Thereof
Call it an experiment gone wrong, or an overzealous symphony of clashing font properties; I've had more than one person complain that this blog's text isn't that readable, and that while the styles are…
HTML5 Madness
I'm conflicted. As a front-end web developer, I should be excited about the advancements in HTML5: the new HTML tags that correct all the hacks and self-replicating divs; the correctly cross-browser rendered styles which have…
Code Pessimism
Raise your hand if you've ever looked at a your codebase and uttered one or more of the following: * Hm, should get to that TODO at some point. * I'll love deleting that chunk code when we…
The Fresh Smell of Google+
By now, Google+ has gone through: * 8-9 months' worth of internal dogfooding[1] * a media blitzkrieg * an interactive demo * one round of external beta testing * one round of external beta testers inviting as many friends as possible The…
Frustrating CSS Animations
I want to like CSS3 animations: they seem cleaner than relying on setTimeout() or setInterval()-based Javascript animations, generally run faster and are optimized by the browser, sometimes even hardware accelerated. If I want smooth animations in a mobile browser,…
