Thread: tweet bar

Originally Posted by Bruce

Ya'll know, don't you, that this recent infusion of technological advancement will be with us forever? The site developers are techno-wizzes and are thus whelmed by this stuff. We the stodgies, the nostalgic, the admirers of old, strong, iron-tough technology, such as, oh a straight razor, are in the overwhelmed minority here.

Learn it; live with it; we are here in the domain of Mach 3 technology.

But we can kick and scream all the way down!

Just look at the crap that pops up on some web pages if you are not careful what you move your mouse over. It blocks what you came to the web page to look at! That "More ... (225)" scares me!

Originally Posted by TexasBob

That "More ... (225)" scares me!

Couldn't capture all the text, but here are images of all (I presume) of the other 225 widgets. That's in addition to the 11 that first pop up. So this is a nasty path to go down. There are enough silly little add-ons that the entire page could be covered and *none* of the actual content be visible. Twitter is just the first step!

Technology marches on ever closer to the edge of disaster! A case of Global Widgeting! We have only a few short years to stop this before it reaches a tripping point and ...

Vote to stop this insanity NOW! http://straightrazorpalace.com/site-...weet-poll.html.

Originally Posted by TexasBob

But we can kick and scream all the way down!

And the effect will be very similar to the one described by that cute little icon of yours.

Originally Posted by TexasBob

Just look at the crap that pops up on some web pages if you are not careful what you move your mouse over. It blocks what you came to the web page to look at! That "More ... (225)" scares me!

Incidentally, I installed something like that in the Wiki some time ago. But I presume you are talking about a different service?

Kind regards,
Robin

Originally Posted by TexasBob

stop this insanity NOW!

Too late. It's soon to be everywhere! "Widgets" are hot at gadget show.

Some quotes:

Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter and YouTube, to name just a few, are among the Web titans which offer the miniature windows that pop up on TV screens while shows are on.

"Right now we have 25 to 30 widgets," she told AFP. "By the end of 2010, we should have about 100 and then we'll just go up from there."

"On TV, what we've found out is that a simple widget doesn't take too much attention away from the TV and it's easy to navigate with a remote," he said. "It's off to the side and covers no more than a third of the screen," [my emphasis] he said.

Topped off by this non sequitur:

"TVs are turning the living room back into the hearth of the home," he said.

Bob, that's incredible!

We could use you on the dev force

Studying and discussing straight razor shaving on the internet is an amusing idea in itself. Straight razor shaving doesn't really change much, but the internet does. As it changes, or rather as many people change how they use it, it might be a good idea to keep SRP available to them in whatever usefully visible ways available. If we wanted to hide ourselves, we'd kill the website and go back to enjoying the hobby individually

I don't like the tweet bar on my screen, but I don't see any reason why we can't let it be an option for others

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

I don't like the tweet bar on my screen, but I don't see any reason why we can't let it be an option for others

I think the issue is more that it isn't a choice for anybody... so the twitter users are happy, and everyone else is just out of luck.

Somebody remind me again why this thread exists in a forum dedicated to "General Razor / Shaving Related Discussion ".

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

I don't like the tweet bar on my screen, but I don't see any reason why we can't let it be an option for others

That's why I put a third option on the http://straightrazorpalace.com/site-...weet-poll.html.

Originally Posted by BKratchmer

I think the issue is more that it isn't a choice for anybody... so the twitter users are happy, and everyone else is just out of luck.

To a degree... But thanks to technology I have turned it off another way (no-script firefox extension. and I'm sure there are other ways) Sure it's annoying, and I shouldn't have to search for a way to turn it off, but - well, I guess there's no but

Originally Posted by TexasBob

That's why I put a third option on the http://straightrazorpalace.com/site-...weet-poll.html.

thanks for that - it's the one I chose when I voted!

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

To a degree... But thanks to technology I have turned it off another way (no-script firefox extension. and I'm sure there are other ways) Sure it's annoying, and I shouldn't have to search for a way to turn it off, but - well, I guess there's no but

The problem is I don't like massive, slow, computer-cluttering browsers. Firefox used to be slim, but now it's a pregnant hippo....

...so now I have to go back to it to get rid of this? I don't think so. It really isn't 'optional' in the slightest. A very specific slice of the population here can get rid of it, but it is by no means a universal ability.

And again, I'm all for having it here for the people who want to use it. I just don't want what I think is equivalent to the Gillette Fusion of human relations to be a forced part of my SRP experience.

AND, while I'm on a role, the only useful SRP related bits I've seen came from Glen. Everything else has been drek about all manner of trivia....

Okay, I'm off the soapbox and officially removing myself from the Twitter discussion. Have fun, guys.