Monthly Archives: April 2006

Why is GMail using pop-ups at all?

Posted on 2006-04-28 by Ben Atkin

I’ve been using Gmail lately. Overall it’s a great user experience, but two kinds of windows popping up annoy me. First, why do links in the message body pop up in new windows, and why is there no way to … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Closing Blog Comments

Posted on 2006-04-20 by Ben Atkin

Right now I’m reading David Heinemeier Hansson’s Blog back to front, and it got me thinking: It’s a common practice to close down blog comments after a certain amount of time, especially on popular sites. I noticed that DHH’s site … Continue reading →

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Editing TextArea’s w/ TextMate

Posted on 2006-04-01 by Ben Atkin

Olifante posted instructions for setting up TextMate to edit TextArea’s in Firefox using the recently updated Mozex Extension. This is a huge improvement. I was already doing the same thing much of the time by copying and pasting. I heard … Continue reading →

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