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For those of you who are still using pixels, it’s about time you made the switch to ems or points. It allows users who have a hard time reading small type to enlarge the font. Here is a little trick that will help you so you don’t have to remember the chart above.
body { font-size: 62.5% }
This will make 1.0 em the same as 10px. So if you wanted 12 px. would be 1.2em, nice and easy. Hopefully this will help you out, I know I use it all the time. Enjoy.
Tags: CSS
Mobile use is one of the biggest challenges now facing many websites. Its also important for some intranets, particularly in companies with many traveling employees.
via Mobile Usability Jakob Nielsens Alertbox.
The challenge has been around since the PalmPilot + application specific tools.
I suspect the success rate for doing “phone” tasks or “address book” tasks is much higher than the “web” tasks.
A custom application (which is all that a “Mobile Site” is, really) is going to provide a better experience.
Simple example? Google Maps – can’t use it on a “mobile” browser. The custom application for my phone works quite well.
A student attending one of Kimball Group’s recent onsite dimensional modeling classes asked me for a list of “Kimball’s Commandments” for dimensional modeling. We’ll refrain from using religious terminology, but let’s just say the following are not-to-be-broken rules together with less stringent rule-of-thumb recommendations.
As our data warehousing process grows and the workflows get more complex, we’ve revisited the question of what tools to use in this process. Out of curiosity, I had a look at basing such a process on Hadoop/Hive for scalability reasons, but the lack of mature tools and the sacrifices on efficiency that would entail meant we’re better off using something else as long as a distributed processing platform is the only thing that can get the job done. I’m also curious about the transition to continuous integration, a model I noticed showing up a couple of years ago and now getting some air under its wings as CEP, IBM’s Infosphere Streams, and other similar approaches. Still, I think I’ll continue to rely on something else for a while and see how things shake out. Continuous integration clearly is the future, but there are many ways to get there.
via What we’re looking for in a data integration tool – Fishpool.