Very nice. I would suggest adding url support to be able to go back and forth between slides (using browser's back/fwd button), emailing dirct link to certain slides, etc.
I love this - wish we had this when I studied at Tech (BS+MS in ECE, over a decade ago). I'm now working on my own startup (outside the US), and was actually thinking to try and meet up with investors in Atlanta. As others mentioned in this thread, ATL is a great city to live in - perhaps it's not as hyped as SF or NYC, but I enjoyed my time there and would love to come back one day. Keep up the good work!
I love firefox and use it daily on all platforms. What bothers me a bit (just a bit) about the design is that only on linux the menu bar row sticks out [1], while on Windows or Mac they were able to collapse it or hide it quite well. I suppose this is due to the GUI implementation constraints on the platform, but it is still very noticable when I switch from my mac to ubuntu.
I'm not on ubuntu right now, but this should be done by an ubuntu specific extension that places the menu bar in the global menu bar area that unity creates in essentially the same place it is on a mac. Should be installed by default on untuntu+unity, perhaps you disabled it?
I would guess that it's possible that the way X works prevents this from happening. At least, easily.
I use an offbeat windowing manager (WM) (aka, the client to Xorg that actually draws the base-level windows for the GUI). The WM gets to present titlebar as it pleases, and given how my WM works, there's 0 chance that Firefox would be able to draw it's own stuff up in there.
Given that, perhaps some WMs can allow the client window to draw up there and some can not. I get the impression that, at a minimum, the titlebar is not guaranteed to be fair game.
It's as B-Com said. The window manager. I used to use Emerald. There was no way you could consistently draw in the titlebar across all the themes available for it.
Upvote, beacuse I see myself as a descent programmer and my github account has been idle for ages.
Not to mention that holding a full time job and my wanting to spend time with my wife and kid leave very little time to maintain a blog (which I don't) or contribute to OSS (as much as I can, but next to nothing compared to other readers of this site).
I have mixed feelings about what to take away from this article. We actually rely exclusively on SVG in the startup I work at, so it's nice to see this topic getting some love. Then again, the lack of serious support, especially in mobile browsers (no mention of SVG not really being supported that well on iOS 4 or lower) means we have to carefully pick our battles or perhaps rethink our stack. Sad.
"no mention of SVG not really being supported that well on iOS 4 or lower)"
I'm guessing the author felt it doesn't need to be mentioned, as usage share for iOS <v5 is negligible (estimates range from 1% to 4%). In contrast, Android <v3 makes up more than 50% of Google Play users.
Very nice, though a couple of things immediately jump out:
First, no https. I think it's something you owe your less technical users.
Second - no non-social way to sign up. Personally, I find it annoying when I can't use simple email/username+password login. I don't really want to give up my entire social graph+data just to try something out. I realize this might be necessary for your business model, but you can offer me the option to add my social data later on, and I will if I like your service.
